From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sat Jul 06 2002 - 14:49:07 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> I don't see how astrology has anything to do with the food I am buying.
The average consumer believes astrology more than astronomers, and
organic hippie farmers more than geneticists. They think astrology is a
science with an accuracy somewhere upward of the weatherman. The fact
that it is dippy hippy left wingers who have promoted the twin idiocies
of astrology AND GM-phobia in the last 20 years should be no surprise or
coincidence. They are both based on ignorance, fear, and stupid
gullibility bordering on the mentally retarded, just the sort of
electorate that socialists need to get into and keep power.
Harvey talks about how untrustworthy the Fortune 500 is, yet he also
claims a) that the government is equally as untrustworthy, based on his
experience in computer security, yet b) he wants to empower the
untrustworthy government to keep tabs on the untrustworthy Fortune 500
and force them to label all their products however his buddies on the
left want them done. Please tell me how this is supposed to be a)
reassuring, b) logical, and c) in any way to be considered a rational
means of running things.
> However, if I buy a can that is 100% full of GM corn, it seems
> misleading to never mention it on the label. We already do have full
> labeling requirements in the U.S. Food labels are supposed to show all
> ingredients and a complete nutritional breakdown of what is in the
> food. Leaving out GM products from the ingredient list seems to be
> misleading, especially if the product is nothing but GM food.
Corn is corn, whether it is GM or not. Food labels do not require that
you print the entire genetic provenance and family tree going back
twenty generations of every ingredient you use in your products. The
sort of food labelling you want to mandate would require that each can
of food come with a phone book sized 'label'.
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