“Non-GMO Project” labels put on voluntarily by companies specifically catering to the health-conscious market does not equal mandatory genetically modified ingredients labeling.
I don’t see why this is a problem, considering that upthread you said:
Anyone who trusts our captured (corrupted) government regulatory system to determine what is and is not safe is playing a fool’s game.
If the government is in the pocket of big ag, then the labels should be the same, no?
Because that’s not what you did. You ridiculed eating GMO produce as being the same as eating Coke and Spaghetti-Os. I’m a biology professor (still feels good to say that), I understand GMOs and I’m comfortable with the technology. I might not be comfortable with what any one corporation does with GMOs, but I’m also not comfortable with how any one corporation uses pesticides, practices soil management or does monoculture farming. But I do understand GMOs, and the idea that buying a head of GM broccoli is somehow equivalent to feeding your kids soda and junk food for dinner is so bonkerballs that I have no idea how to even respond to it. And it was a completely unnecessary addition to your comment. The analogy is confusing and weird. You just wanted to make a dig at consumers who have to rely on convenience food.
Yeah, the war against science. Which is not a war I think we should be fighting.
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It’s easy to tell who the bad guys are. They want to sabotage the marketplace, by withholding information from their customers. They oppose a very basic human freedom of choice - because it just might interfere with corporate profiteering.
Pro-labeling GMO advocates do exist, and I respect them, but they’re pretty thin on the ground.
The Devil can quote scripture, they say, but you’ll know him by his works. If someone tells me I’m not going to be allowed to make my own choices because I might make the wrong ones… yeah, I’ve heard that before…
Genetic engineering is a technique; it’s morally and ethically neutral until you start talking about specific implementations and uses. . Anti-labeling, though, is anti-science, anti-free-market, and anti-human; it’s a moral and ethical statement that explicitly places corporate profit above human needs and aspirations.
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You want to know why I want labels? Same reason I do now. The biggest potential fear I have is the same one that I have with non-GMOs: allergens. While most of the time the changes are with something similar (a gene from say one type of cow into another type), there is no promise that one day my cornflakes couldn’t contain a protein-boost from a fish. More reasonably would be soy, which wouldn’t affect me personally but is still a known allergen.
To me, labelling is not necessarily about giant glaring warning labels, but properly identified ingredients lists. You know, that big huge paragraph that most people who don’t have food issues don’t bother to read.
TL;DR food labelling is important for ALL foods. Proper identification of ingredients (especially those known to produce adverse reactions in some people) should be demanded for everything we eat, not just the things that sound scary.
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