hey Val! I didn’t say “d*ck” about the EPA and yes indeedie do believe that people have a right to know what they are buying to put in their bodies. If you choose to be CAFO and you think it’s so wonderful then declare it proudly.
Why is it so hard to understand that people would like to know that they are eating non GMO.
If you are so opposed and so convinced that CAFO is better then why stop the organic Farmers from declaring that theirs are not?
How about just labeling non GMO and then we won’t buy CAFO?
HMMM
hey Val Pal.
How come UCLA Med Centers stopped serving antibiotic fed meat per the LA Times? They must be REALLY crazy!
I don’t think you understand what I said. The EPA has defined the terms and rules so they can declare any and all livestock operations a CAFO anytime they want to, irrespective of reality and reason.
(Do you even know what CAFO means?) Non CAFO doesn’t mean GMO free and GMO Free doesn’t mean non CAFO. Livestock can be neither or both.
I buy meat by the whole live animal. Beef from a local farmer, lamb I raise myself and pork from the local 4H auction. Not because I fear CAFO meats but because it tastes better and costs less.
There is already a non-GMO label. It’s called Certified Organic. There is also a secondary voluntary GMO Free label as well.
What I object to is the movement by the Food Luddites to force a “contains GMO” labeling system. That’s BS. The current voluntary system lets both the farmers and the consumers that want to partake in that specialty market do so without cost to the those who don’t.
Demanding a non-voluntary system is simply trying to socialize the costly culinary choices of the fearful few onto everyone else.
You may not have said anything about the EPA, but it is being used by your brethren nevertheless.
Just as the Luddites of old, who claim that they were ‘just trying to save the jobs’ by wrecking the industrial machinery, todays Food Luddites are ‘simply trying to protect consumers’.
Some attack the food production machinery with ‘labeling’, others attack from the angle of ‘saving the environment’, or maybe ‘animal rights’, and any other sabotage that works.
What they all have in common are the tools developed by the Left which they have become so skilled at using over the years. Regulatory agencies comb the countryside, forcing on producers and consumers the costs and burdensome labeling rules, land use requirements, livestock rules, and any number of food production destroying techniques.
Their (including quite a number of Freepers) goal is very simple; Destroy the greatest food producing machine the world has ever witnessed.
Since I may be gone for awhile, the answer to your next question, asked in faked absolute outrage, is ‘Yes’.