{"id":768,"date":"2008-04-08T10:12:08","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T10:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2008\/04\/horror-non-fiction-2\/"},"modified":"2008-04-08T10:12:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T10:12:08","slug":"horror-non-fiction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2008\/04\/08\/horror-non-fiction-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror, Non-fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are looking for a scary story, you need look no further than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/features\/2008\/05\/monsanto200805?printable=true&#038;currentPage=all\">this Vanity Fair article on Monsanto<\/a>.<br \/>\nMonsanto is the archetypal evil organization who looks to extract wealth, despite the costs imposed on society, nature, or anything else that gets in its way. We&#8217;ve seen these types of cold, efficient operations in stories such as Star Wars, James Bond, Lord of the Rings, and countless other &#8220;good vs. evil&#8221; sagas.<br \/>\nCan life turn out like a Hollywood movie? Who will be the hero who, despite all of the overwhelming challenges, vanquishes this seemingly-invincible foe? Or will this juggernaut simply steamroll anyone who gets in its way and make us all its bitches?<br \/>\nBeware of any company that inserts a gene into an organism and names it after a relentless killer cyborg from an apocalyptic future that travels back in time to wipe out the human race. It&#8217;s almost as if Monsanto is giving us the finger as we mindlessly throw money their way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are looking for a scary story, you need look no further than this Vanity Fair article on Monsanto. Monsanto is the archetypal evil organization who looks to extract wealth, despite the costs imposed on society, nature, or anything else that gets in its way. We&#8217;ve seen these types of cold, efficient operations in &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/2008\/04\/08\/horror-non-fiction-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cosmicbuddha.com\/adam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}