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Resolved: three random people on the street of Bangkok have more common sense than anyone in Greenpeace

http://www.bangkokpost.net/News/28Aug200…

…Eleven tonnes of papayas were dumped outside the Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry yesterday by Greenpeace in protest at … open-field trials of genetically-modified crops.

…people flocked to load up on the free papayas, ignoring the environmental organisation’s campaign against … GM fruit…

Many passers-by, who mostly knew nothing about transgenic fruit, said they did not care about any health risks.

They were just thinking about how hungry they were…

An ethical political group would see this and say “Gee, perhaps our priorities are out of whack – there sure do seem to be a lot of hungry people who, by the principle of revealed preference, rank cheap and plentiful food ahead of our leftist Western bourgeoise whining complaints; maybe we should reevaluate our plan to ‘help’ these people”.

“I don’t care if they’re dangerous,” said papaya salad seller Gig Krueyat, 70. “I don’t know what the threat is … nothing serious, I think …”

Mrs Gig helped herself to three sacks of the fruit in minutes. Others, including some ministry officials and Rasi Salai dam protesters from Sri Sa Ket province who were camped near the ministry, also did not let the opportunity slip by.

A man waiting in traffic for the lights to go green near the ministry, leapt out of his car and joined the feast.

“I’m not scared of GM papayas. Rather, I’m scared I won’t have any to eat,” said Ubon Ratchathani villager Ampon Tantima, 31, before rushing back to his car with the free fruit.

Resolved: three random people on the street of Bangkok have more common sense than anyone in Greenpeace.

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2 Responses to “Resolved: three random people on the street of Bangkok have more common sense than anyone in Greenpeace”

  1. raptros.v76 Says:
    August 28th, 2007 at 7:59 am

    actually, the way it says that “people flocked” suggests that an entire crowd of people have more sense than greenpeace. which is even more funny.

  2. Doh-San Says:
    August 28th, 2007 at 4:29 pm

    “Resolved: three random people on the street of Bangkok have more common sense than anyone in Greenpeace”

    Let’s make that: “Resolved: three random people on the street of Bangkok have more common sense than everyone in Greenpeace (put together)”.