On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 21:03:33 -0700, Walter Epp
posted:

"Gordon Couger" wrote:
I understand that the US public were reasonably accepting of the
technology until, the European "Frankenfoods" scare campaign came to
town.

The US public is still accepting them with no real problem.

The US public is largely unaware that they are consuming them.
That's not acceptance, it's ignorance.

Yep, most don't want them new-fangled gene thangs in their fodder

In the greenest
part of the country a vote on and anti GM law lost 3 to 1. We have some

That result was bought with over $6 per vote of out of state money
spent on a blitz of deception and scare tactics.

For instance? Show too where it is wrong please.

The best genetically modified democracy money can buy.

That's nearly as good as "Frankenfoods".

That law was not anti-gm, it only required that the consumer be allowed
to know what they're getting so there could be a free market.

Garbage. So that your lying scare campaigns could take effect.

Freedom is by definition the ability to make choices.

Only if you know and understand the facts. You lot have gone out of
your way to spread lies. Show one example of GM harm.

If there's no labeling, there's no choice, if there's no choice, there's
no freedom. To call this a free market is a fraud - it's a rigged market.

Then tell the truth. If there are scary lies promulgated, there can be
no informed choice, whatever information is given on a label.
How would you think a food label that says CONTAINS GENETIC MATERIAL
would sell after your lying nonsense?

Their opposition to labelling shows that genetic engineering proponents
don't believe their own propaganda.

Their opposition to labelling is due to gross ignorance of the general
public (free choice requires education) lack of necessity in things
like oils that contain no protein, and all the lies that the greenies
have spread without an iota of truth.

If GE was really a good thing, the
industry would be proud to have their products labelled.

Not after the lies the greenies have spread. It is often difficuly to
determine exactly what is in mixtures. Hence the common catch all:
"May contain traces of nuts".

problem with green terrorists but we have been having that for a long time

Attempting to plant an association between advocates of consumer rights
and "terrorists" is a transparent smear.

Well they both "terrorise" a group of people. One with lies and one
with vandalism.