From: Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 11:39:45 MDT
From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com>
>The point is there *is* labeling -- its called "organic". People
>who want foods manufactured using "organic" methods are completely
>free to buy them.
>You miss the point that the desire to have foods labeled as "GMO"
>isn't motivated by the desire to give the average consumer more
>information (that he isn't able to interpret because you don't
>know whether it is GMO for vitamins or GMO for round-up resistance
>(e.g. decreased residues of non-round-up pesticides) or GMO for
>something that only benefits the farmer. The entire point of the
>GMO labeling drive is to somehow cast GMO foods as "bad" and
>therefore drive up the demand for organic foods.
I'm going to take your advice and avoid generalizing.
I want to know what's in what I eat, plus there are certain uses of
GM tech I oppose and want to be able to oppose it in any form.
If labeling can be avoided, which I don't think will happen,
your're going to drive up the demand for certified organic anyway.
Brian
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