What is your definition of "market place" mister Clinton?

Where seed is for sale to farmers and crops for sale to consumers.
Also, if you want to have a professional discourse, kindly refrain from
name-calling.

The approval process has allowed for grain elevator contamination,
allowed for wind cross pollination contamination. The approval
process does not even look at interspecific contamination.

The non-engineered versions do not allow for certain genetic
combinations. The non-engineered versions have a development and
testing time (in many crops) of around 15 years! In many cases
"engineered" versions can be obtained in less than a year.

Current regulations allow for "contamination" for weed seed, seed from
other crops, seed from other varieties, pesticide residues, rodent
feces, insects, rodent hairs, etc. Why should transgenes be treated any
differently? Afterall, the trasngenes have undergone safety testing;
the insect parts have not.

By the way, the issue of allergenic peanut genes in foods was addressed
in FDA guidelines as far back as 1992. One can do it-- but labeling to
the effect is required.

labeling required? When?, in what country?

The FDA guidelines for labeling in the USA make good reading. It turns
out that labels are required in many cases, including whenever there may
be a health concern associated with the gene, or when the gene changes
the nature or character of the food.

Does your canola oil bottle say RoundUp Ready Genetically modified Canola?

For the record, oil from RR canola is indistinguisable from oil from non
transgenic canola. All the analytical equipment in the world cannot
tell them apart. Hence, this is an example where labeling is not
required in the US.


Last year Oregon USA tried labelling but the labelling campaign was outgunned
and defeated by the biotech industry.