There's a hilarious parallel here between Monsanto and your average tech company that had an innovative hit.
Glyphosate was an awesome herbicide and Roundup Ready crops a big hit, but between the expiration of patents and the introduction of generic glyphosate-resistant crops and the increase in glyphosate-resistant weeds, it's losing its value, both to the company and to the consumers. So they need another hit.
And like a million tech companies before them, they took an uninspired rehash of their first hit, ignored feedback from early adopters and internal dogfood about glaring problems with the new product and are trying to push it as the second coming. And now they're lashing out at anyone who says it isn't, and insist their new product is as revolutionary as their first.
Only, you know, it's not bloggers and tech journalists they're mad at, it is farmers and scientists.
It's almost funny when it happens to someone else.
Glyphosate was an awesome herbicide and Roundup Ready crops a big hit, but between the expiration of patents and the introduction of generic glyphosate-resistant crops and the increase in glyphosate-resistant weeds, it's losing its value, both to the company and to the consumers. So they need another hit.
And like a million tech companies before them, they took an uninspired rehash of their first hit, ignored feedback from early adopters and internal dogfood about glaring problems with the new product and are trying to push it as the second coming. And now they're lashing out at anyone who says it isn't, and insist their new product is as revolutionary as their first.
Only, you know, it's not bloggers and tech journalists they're mad at, it is farmers and scientists.
It's almost funny when it happens to someone else.