Beehaw

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We're a collective of individuals upset with the way social media has been traditionally governed. A severe lack of moderation has led to major platforms like Facebook to turn into political machinery focused on disinformation campaigns as a way to make profit off of users. Websites with ineffective moderation allow hate speech to proliferate and contribute to the erosion of minority rights and safe spaces. Our goal with Beehaw is to demonstrate and promote a healthier environment.

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As a news aggregator and a social media outlet, with a focus on being a safe and accepting space, we strive to create a positive social impact. We will, also, help to connect underprivileged and minority individuals with education and civic participation by promoting a healthier online experience.

We currently have a Mastodon account you can follow for major updates: @beehaw at hachyderm.io. You can also join our community Discord or Matrix servers. You can also view our status page.

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If you donate, you should know that 100% of the costs will go towards server time, licensing costs, and artwork.

In the future if we need to hire developers or other labor, it would be sourced through the Open Collective Europe Foundation, and it would be transparent to the community before any changes were made.

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Our community icons were made by Aaron Schneider under the CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 license.

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On 'Unnatural' GMOs: How One Company Poisons the World through Weedkiller (m.youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TerryTPlatypus to c/socialism
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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/7125786

  • [ ] GMOs are bad, but not for the reason you think.
    • [ ] Company called Monsanto (now under another company called Bayer) made a weedkiller called Roundup which contains glyphosate, which is a possible carcinogen
    • [ ] Roundup killed crops as well as weeds, so they sold GMO seeds that could withstand Roundup
    • [ ] However, due to the monopoly/doninance of Monsanto, a lot of food, both processed and unprocessed, contains GMOs, which also contain a lot of glyphosate (which may be bad for you)
    • [ ] To cover up further investigation of glyphosate, they captured and bribed the EPA to look the other way and even to support Monsanto's research -- at least until the WHO cane out in 2015 and said that glyphosate could be carcinogenic
    • [ ] So GMOs aren't inherently bad, but they can be used for evil purposes like these
    • [ ] So try and at least buy organic food or grow your own food to avoid glyphosate
    • [ ] However according to a youtube comment, Roundup is also used to make plants mature faster...

Edit: misspelling, changed Montesanto to Monsanto

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On 'Unnatural' GMOs: How One Company Poisons the World through Weedkiller (m.youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TerryTPlatypus to c/greenspace
2 comments fedilink
 
 
  • [ ] GMOs are bad, but not for the reason you think.
    • [ ] Company called Monsanto (now under another company called Bayer) made a weedkiller called Roundup which contains glyphosate, which is a possible carcinogen
    • [ ] Roundup killed crops as well as weeds, so they sold GMO seeds that could withstand Roundup
    • [ ] However, due to the monopoly/doninance of Monsanto, a lot of food, both processed and unprocessed, contains GMOs, which also contain a lot of glyphosate (which may be bad for you)
    • [ ] To cover up further investigation of glyphosate, they captured and bribed the EPA to look the other way and even to support Monsanto's research -- at least until the WHO cane out in 2015 and said that glyphosate could be carcinogenic
    • [ ] So GMOs aren't inherently bad, but they can be used for evil purposes like these
    • [ ] So try and at least buy organic food or grow your own food to avoid glyphosate
    • [ ] However according to a youtube comment, Roundup is also used to make plants mature faster...

Edit: misspelling, changed Montesanto to Monsanto

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