Exactly David. If we can't live in a common reality based on evidence, there can be no democracy. Whatever the Supreme Leader says is reality. That's how it worked in Iran anyway.

I ask this all the time. But I do sense (just based on observation) that most of this comes from interests hostile to the USA. If they can break trust in agriculture and medicine, those are two places where the USA was #1. Use social media as a disinformation conduit to get folks to not trust food.

Exactly. It is 1.5% of the population, but critical to everything else. And I understand why they vote the way they do-- in the past the politcal left would shut them down in a heartbeat with regulation and bans on tech/chemistry. But this is probably worse.

There are companies poised to do that, and if you look carefully at who is heavily invested in them you see some familiar names.

Here it is county health dept. It's just a drag to have to even install one, big bucks. I life in the middle of nowhere so there's no problems in terms of potential harms from the system. They just have to check the boxes.

'You don't want to see ... accelerate into violence..."

Except for that's exactly what they want to see.

I didn't say that. Take it up with Vern.

One of these days I'm going to buy some of these products and make DNA from the material. It's plant powder, and I"m guessing all of the discarded greens from vegetable processing. I could get sequence from it and see what's actually in there.