>>2500391>I'm not anti-corn, I'm against big monoplies exploiting farmersMonsanto isn't even a blip on the average farmer's radar. Government regulations fuck us over and then gradually snowball into fucking up the rest of the economy. See ethanol.
>I'm not anti-fracking, I want accountability and transparency in the oil and gas industry.Ok
>and that Shell has gotten off the hook for some terrible practicesThat's why fracking is so cool. It's a bunch of cowboy hotshot small to midsized companies that dominate the industry.
This is due to the uniquely American idea that a land owner owns the mineral rights under his feet.
In every other country (including Canada I believe) the government own mineral rights. So only massive oil companies like shell can lobby for drilling rights. It's also why only massive companies can typically drill on public lands in the US. An oil company has to grease the hands of hundreds of officials and politicians to drill. On private land, an oilman can just walk up to a farmer and say "I'll pay you a bunch if you you let me drill on the land you aren't actively using"
