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GMO biz vs consumers
"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. 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. The best genetically modified democracy money can buy. 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. Freedom is by definition the ability to make choices. 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. Their opposition to labelling shows that genetic engineering proponents don't believe their own propaganda. If GE was really a good thing, the industry would be proud to have their products labelled. 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. -- delete N0SPAAM to reply by email |
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