Posted on 11/01/2013 3:26:45 PM PDT by EveningStar
If one believes the backers of Washington State Initiative 522, Tuesday’s vote is simple commonsense: It’s about the “right to know” what’s in our food...
“To be clear the Just Label campaign is not an anti-GMO effort,” says Gary Hirshberg, founder of organic food maker Stonyfield Organic, and head of Just Label It...
But in less guarded moments, Hirshberg makes it clear that the labeling movement has nothing at all to do with science, information and discourse—it is exclusively an anti-GMO effort...
(Excerpt) Read more at geneticliteracyproject.org ...
Aspartame? There is one brand of milk that is sold locally that causes my daughter to break out in hives every time that she drinks it.
So breeding sheep as has been done for 2000 years is the same as mixing spider or goat DNA into corn?
Yes I get “emotional” about the food supply. It is life itself after all.
If GMO is so good why do you have to hide it?
Companies like Monsato seek to control the food supply. You won’t be able to grow your own food.
They’ve already taken steps to do this in Europe where you can only possess govt approved seeds. Which happen to be from companies like Monsato.
The anti-GMO movement is based on the fact that you cannot kill the GMO seed. It is resistant to normal herbicides. Once GMO is planted or if it spreads naturally, it will reproduce forever and Monsanto will demand a cut, whether you intentionally planted GMO grain or not.
People in Africa area starving because of political instability and the fact their govt sells the food aid they receive from the west instead of giving it to hungry people.
Believe me people with full stomachs have a lot of time to complain. and you are one of them. You need to think about the BIGGER PICTURE. Like liberals you think it is all about YOU - I want. We do not live in perfect world and never will. You better believe without GMO food would be scarce and high priced. And even with GMO we will see that time.
Buy you damn organic food. We have already implemented a system. Why do you have to fix a created problem that does nothing but create more bureaucracy.
The people in Africa are hungry because they turned the bread basket of the continent (formerly known as Rhodesia) over to black folks who don’t know or care to know how to raise food. Why? Because the white farmers were feeding them and that was just so “racist”. Kill or evict all the white farmers then sit around twiddling thumbs. Owning a farm does not make it produce food. That takes actual work.
You are confused.
I don’t understand that attitude at all.
Second, it is a moot point since aspartame has been found harmless after thorough and exhaustive study by actual scientists as opposed to conspiracy minded bloggers. The hoax that it is toxic came originally from a crazy chain email way back in the day.
You are entitled to your opinion, no matter how ignorant it is, but you are not entitled to spread BS and expect to get away with it.
DNA is DNA is DNA. There is absolutely *no* difference in DNA whether it comes from a spider, goat, corn, virus, bacteria, fungus, or any other living organism. It is merely a chemical code. Furthermore, organisms exchange DNA all the time.
Yes I get “emotional” about the food supply. It is life itself after all.
You allow emotion to override your God-given ability to think. If I were to suggest learning how to think logically and how to check facts, I think the suggestion would fall on deaf ears. That said, reacting emotionally without ever taking the time to learn whether there is anything to be hyper-emotional about doesn't do you or anyone else any good.
If GMO is so good why do you have to hide it?
No one is hiding anything. Every market I have ever seen, for my whole entire life, has displayed genetically modified food proudly, right out in the open. As I already pointed out, if you are so irrationally paranoid about eating genetically modified food, no one is stopping you from going out into the wilderness and gathering your own food.
What about if you get a full stomach consuming foods flavored by embryonic kidney cells from aborted human fetuses? Would you like to have the right to know whether you are consuming such abominable foods or if you are addicted to them because the scientists know how to make them addictive to your tastebuds?
http://www.healthy-holistic-living.com/flavor-technology.html
I think “there should be a law” against this and it takes government to make such a law.
*Yawn.*
As it turns out, new-technology GMO seeds are killed by basically the same things that kill old-technology GMO seeds. Other than the fact that the new-technology GMOs inspire so much irrational fearmongering, I find it difficult to discern much biological difference between old and new technology GMOs.
You're a 'low information' eater.
Farm subsidies are as high as ever.
Test tube and spider dna? New
So whats wrong with having it on the label?
You people say the same thing about msg, aspartame and splenda.
Right. It is not conservative to ask for more government control. We in Washington can go to PCC or Whole Foods and spends a wad of money to fill a cart with organic
And since basically all corn and wheat has been GMO for years, there is no point labeling everything in the supermarket to be GMO. Grains will not be non GMO unless you grow it yourself. Drink whole milk to avoid the aspartame.
I hope that all of us have better thought processes than the noodle brained libs and can make our own decisions without a nanny looking out for us.
I could care less about looking out for you. I just want to know whats in my food.
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