Re: Mandatory labeling

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Tue Jul 09 2002 - 22:48:28 MDT


Mike Lorrey wrote:

> Any product forced to be labeled "GMO" or "Contains GMO Ingredients" is
> a dead product from the get go, due only to the demonization and lies of
> the luddite community. The luddites make sure the public views "GMO" as
> "frankenfood".
>

Would you not buy it? Would I? Would the vast majority of
consumers even have any idea what "GMO" was about or even bother
to read the label? Let's not get hysterical. There are many
more important things to get energized about than this labelling.

> I am appalled that you want to confiscate the first amendment rights of
> food producers so willynilly. I am appalled that you think your 'right

It is NOT a 1st amendment issue if people would like to know
when foods are GM produced. It is a relatively minor request.

> to know' should force a financial burden on somebody else.

No big burden at all.

>I am appalled
> that you think that any domesticated plant or animal is any less
> intentionally bred away from its wild progenitors than those whose
> genomes have been cut and spliced.

That was never said so this is pure useless rhetoric.

- samantha



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