You think we didn’t try? The real question is, what don’t they want? We donated money. They want more. We sent food. They complained that it wasn’t enough, and that they wanted—no, deserved—semolina instead of winter wheat. We shared our preliminary findings on a cultivar of mung beans that grow in the dark, and next thing you know the Italian government’s sending an armored truck to commandeer our data. Years of work, gone.
