I'd like to see your garden. Looks like it may make a great football field.

Just because it is old, maybe 3 years, and newer ones are better doesn't mean it needs to be replaced.
I don't just get an "ohh shiny" new tv because it is newer.
When it breaks in maybe 5 years from now I might replace it.

Ad hominem. Best sign of lack of arguments.

Venezuela and Zimbabwe are Communist? And in what parallel universe are those the nations in the worst state? And what does one have to do with the other?

You're right. Our economic model is completely perfect and we should never ever do anything but sit on our asses and let it be. After all, the IMF keeps telling me that everything's gonna be alright. And when did the IMF ever fail a prediction?

1. GMO crops may have poorly understood unintended consequences. They cross-reproduce with other plants and spread their genes throughout the environment.
2. They are proprietary, turning farmers into corporate patent slaves.
3. They encourage monoculture, at the expense of biodiversity and food safety.
4. They discourage a varied diet, to the expense of public health.
5. This case, if it goes forward, will create a precedent and encourage the generalisation of GMO throughout the world, posing as a panacea to world hunger. This allows world leaders to continue ignoring the real problem, which is unfair distribution, not food scarcity.

Most people I know find it funny. Maybe you are the problem.

Strawman.

Non-sequitur. But since we're at it, the Roman Empire was the cause of great economic, social and technical progress in Europe, Asia and Africa. It was so great we should have stuck to it forever! Why evolve to anything else? But don't worry, again thanks to Capitalism, a lot of Europeans are going back to starch eaters.

WTF? What Reds are you talking about?

I know it's false. That's why I called it a joke.

I'm all for technology improving people's lives. But many times, technology is overkill and used only because of corporate interests. There are simpler solutions, but then someone would not be making a shitload of money from them, so they're not used.

Drug dealer business practice: the first fix is always free.

The real problem is this kind of complicated, expensive and dangerous "solution" when simply introducing other crops that naturally provide vitamin D would fix the issue.

Reminds me of that old joke about the US spending millions of dollars to develop a pen which can write in space, and the Soviet cosmonauts simply using a pencil.

The Tea Party? Arrests? Really? I read about them being spied on, but never heard of arrests. Why would your government want to piss off the billionaires behind the movement, the ones that basically rule the USA?

I got plenty of news about infiltrations and police brutality against OWS, however. Not in the mass media, of course. Here on the other side of the Atlantic, our media is as much as corrupt as yours. They pretended OWS never existed or, at most, was just a gang of anarchists doing vandalism.

You mean, like what happens every day with people at the wheel?

I couldn't care less if Assange or Snowden are nice guys. That's completely irrelevant for the matter if they're sweet little cherubs or like to fuck sheep on their spare time. Nobody does what they did by being that nice guy everybody wants to have a beer with.

The hateful crimes they exposed are the true stars, here. If you focus on the messenger, you miss the message. That's what the governments, corporations and their global propaganda machine (a.k.a. mass media) badly, badly, badly want you to do. Quite successfully.