Posted on 05/11/2014 12:01:22 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Oh cmon Johnnie, are you saying they don’t already KNOW whats in the ‘product’ they are selling? They had better damn well know or they shouldn’t be selling it in the first damn place.
If we don’t push back they’ll be serving vat grown meat at all the fast food places.
Of course, it doesn’t apply to selective breeding. We have very little food that isn’t a product of that, that’s not what the VT law refers to, and that’s not what customers want to know about. Jeesh!!!
Wheat comes from a lot of farms, and it all winds up in the same bag of flour.
/johnny
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If VT is the only state that has this requirement will the national brands accommodate them or just not ship to VT? If VT is worried about identifying GM foods then the question regarding fast food (and other restaurants) is valid.
You are right passing niggling little nanny state laws are no big deal; that is until their combined weight crushes an economy or society.
/johnny
theater and government intrusion - ditto.
It only slips because of loopholes with labeling laws and people seeking to sell GMO as non-GMO. They know people don’t want GMO which is why they mislabel it.
Kinda the whole point.
Nonsense. It's not at all unreasonable to require sellers to provide basic information about their products. And actually, if they think specific information will help sell their product, they'll plaster the info all over the product and run expensive advertising campaigns promoting such information. Such as the mostly bogus information about cholesterol and "heart healthy" foods consumers have been deluged with for about 50 years.
For whatever reason, you just support Big Brother government and you want Big Brother to decide what people should and shouldn't know about a product.
Despite all the whining and caterwauling, it would be very cheap and simple to label GMO foods, and also country of origin which most of the same sellers also oppose when it comes to China.
They don't want to label GMO because they know a significant percentage of consumers wouldn't buy it, as is their right.
Again I don’t care. I am aware that government raises the price of food through legislation, but believe me when I say the corporations raise the taxes 100 times more. There is ZERO reason for the corporations to cut the box of cereal in 1/2 and keep or raise the price. The government has nothing to do with it. The corporations are very greedy now a days and you know it. Look at how they are screwing the customers with their 2 liter sodas and dish washer detergent, they are filling them only to about 75 percent. The corporations are evil with their screwing the customers. Of course since you don’t help the economy at all, you don’t care.
That has nothing to do with people trying to sell something under false pretenses.
/johnny
How liberal.
/johnny
That promiscuous spreading of GMO corn is in itself a good argument against GMO foods.
I just like to know if the toads and worms they add to 70% hamburger are genetically modified...no biggie.
You really don't have a clue how complex it can get.
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It’s all about facts. Seriously you have obviously not been in a grocery store lately. And it is all about me you twit....of course it is because I have to pay for the greedy items that rip us off. You out of touchers don’t have to worry about it.
Still not buying it. These guys know if they are using GMO or not. They just know that if given a choice of GMO or non GMO, a lot of people are going to want something that wasn’t noodled with in a lab so it could be soaked with Roundup.
Lol, I fully understand how a company that does not want to label a product will make up every excuse they can imagine to avoid labeling. A food producer knows full well whether it is using GMO corn, or soybeans, or rapeseed, or whatever other agricultural product they make use of, and whether they mead they use was fed GMO feedstuffs.
They just don't want to provide consumers with this information and that is the beginning and end of it.
And the vague label GMO doesn't tell you a thing about whether that food is safe or healthy.
/johnny
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