I mean this in the nicest possible way, but this is just totally asinine.
It's like you all have this cognitive dissonance on how the world actually works.
Scott's is a large multinational company. Nearly everything you use and consume is made, directly or indirectly, through
multinational companies.
General Hydroponics is a profitable, stable company with millions of users, of course someone wanted to buy it.
Please, tell me what is "acceptable" nutrients, in your eyes? Please also tell me specifically how the products will become "shit". Will they start using urea nitrogen? Switch to iron EDTA?
I heard the same sky-is-falling rhetoric when Anheuser-Busch got bought out by Inbev and when 7-11 was bought by Japanese interests.