Very interesting synopsis.  I can't argue with much of it and will add that what is described is just a part of what is happening in many essential sectors.  Industri.al cartels have captured governments, regulators, educational institutions, and media and employ them to promote the monopolistic goals and massive profits with little concern for those who are injured or the environment. The ongoing worldwide pharmacological experiment is being supported and enforced, not questioned and  constrained by the very institutions that should be advising caution.  At least with the ag chemicals, there was and is substantial public discussion, legal cases, and slow introduction.  We are seeing less and less caution and restraint over time and as was pointed out with seeds, consumers are almost powerless.

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