Posted on 01/21/2012 2:46:35 PM PST by Libertynotfree
There are 9 politicians we have elected voted NO to mandatory labeling of Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) food. After all, money IS more important than health. Please take time to call, write, or visit your representatives to let them know what’s your concern. Check out the voting record!
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Why are these people associating genetically modified foods with ill health? No such link exists. In point of fact every single bite of food you put in your mouth has been modified on a genetic level one way or the other at one point in time.
Answer: Because they are modern day Luddites who know little about science and who can be stampeded by fools like Algore and his ilk.
What exactly do they consider genetically modified? Some sort of modification has been going on for thousands of years.
The real question here is why would anyone object to consumers having more information on which to base their purchasing decisions. Refusing to provide it is like some totalitarian society: government knows best and don’t ask questions. - There is also country of origin labeling legislation that has been bottled up for years.
It’s always odd to see posters at FR coming out on the side of big brotherism rather than greater information and free choice for those spending their money.
There is always some seller who does not want the consumers to have more information about what they are selling. Follow the money.
Man do you have a screwed up idea of things.
Let's think about this option for a tick, shall we? How about we let the consumer decide if they want to purchase unlabeled food products or not. Why that almost be like...oh...let me think for a minute...I have it! Letting people make up their own minds with their own dollars!
Wow..that would be like...Liberty or something.
Lol, you not only support Big Brotherism, you are also anti-free market. One of the requirements for a free market is that buyers and sellers have knowledge as to product and price.
Producers of food know full well what raw materials they are using and where they came from and labeling has been part of selling products in the US for decades. Some producers fight GMO labeling and country of origin labeling on some products because they know some consumers will decline to purchase their products if that information is provided.
Freedom and free markets are a two way street, and buyers have a right to know what they are buying. That has long been recognized, and often fought by sellers who don’t want to provide the information.
All food is genetically modified. All crops today are the result of selectively manipulating the gene in agro laboratories
The hysteria is based on the chicken little mentality that produced the global warming debacle
You're delusional.
One of the requirements for a free market is that buyers and sellers have knowledge as to product and price.
And it's up to consumers to demand it from the producers. It's not the place of the Federal Government to force it at the point of a gun.
buyers have a right to know what they are buying.
With the right comes the responsibility to ask the person they're buying it from that question.
and often fought by sellers who don’t want to provide the information.
Then don't buy stuff from people who won't tell you where their stuff comes from. Maybe you need Mommy Government to do it for you, but I most assuredly don't. If a product isn't labelled with it's country of origin and ingredients, don't buy it. If it does and it has something you don't want in it or came from somewhere you don't like, then don't buy it.
But you have no right to go whining to Congress to force your preferences on the rest of the Nation, especially when Congress has no specific, enumerated Power under Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution.
You're on the wrong forum.
You're living in a fantasy world.
In a nation of 300+ million and large amounts of international trade involving hundreds of thousands of sellers, it is impossible for any buyer to know what they are buying and where it came from unless that information is supplied. And that information has been provided both voluntarily and as a legal requirement for decades, and it is necessary for freedom and free markets - both of which are two way streets. To pretend that disclosure requirements on products is some enormous burden is silly.
When a seller thinks their products have positive attributes, they'll not only provide the information, but spend significant sums advertising that fact.
When a seller thinks their products have negative attributes, they will not disclose that information voluntarily, and in some cases they should be required to disclose it by law.
Do you object to laws that require that labeling distinguish between wild caught and pond raised salmon? Can you tell the difference?
Get out of your fantasy world and into the real world.
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