Evolution is random. Sometimes outside circumstances guide this randomness, sometimes it doesn't. (or the mutation coincides with another mutation that is more actively selected for)

Interesting, those conspiracy theorists would be making the exact same mistake as the witch hunters

Because lobbying ofc.. It's also made from corn iirc and those farms are not sustainable. But tbh I don't fully remember what I've read about it, I just remember the general sense of ethanol being a bad idea.

Modern paints use magenta for "red" and Cyan for "blue". So it's literally just inverted RGB, using the secondary colors instead of the primary (of course, language is malleable and so they just call those the primary colors in paint... But it's the secondary colors of RGB).