Dear God!
Next week there is an Agricultural Ministerial in Sacramento and everyone is revving up their stupid.
It looks like the people throwing the ministerial are revving up their stupid by putting absurd amounts optimism about Science & Technology in agriculture. The police in Sacramento are positively salivating at the chance to use new toys on potential lawbreakers.
Oh yeah and the protestors. Need I even say anything about them. I'm sure every idea and plan sort of related to agriculture promoted by every public and private interest and more than a few completely imaginary ones promoted by Mab the Fairy Queen will be roundly criticized from nine different and mutually exclusive directions. A pundit or two will try to lend them a sympathetic ear but will in the end ignore most of the protestors and just pretend that they all agree with him. The cops will probably overreact (proact?). Sacramento will have a pepper spray filled bitchfest and the protestors will be horribly, horribly indignant. They'll still be wrong but it seems to matter less when you see these poor dumb assholes get pepper sprayed.
Politicians will be inconvenianced. Will the protestors change anything? Well, inconveniance is a kind of change. I doubt anything will be done to please the people in the street simply because nothing will ever make them happy. I know that isn't completely true: there are a few people, usually within the organizations meeting, who have an idea of what could be done differently when comes to policy. There are some outside too, who are not favored by current policies and wish to be so.
This will be a glorius alliance between the terminally indignant and the "give me some money."