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In reply to the discussion: GMO foods don't need special label, American Medical Assn. says [View all]tavalon
(27,985 posts)49. 23 years as a Registered Nurse
I felt it was my duty to remind people. While I'm at it, don't go believing every thing the American Nurses Association says either. They are also a bought and paid for subsidiary of well, anyone who'll pay.
Now, bedside nurses are another matter. If we would stop fighting with each other, dump the ANA and get organized, we really would be the benevolent overlords or whatever. Not all nurses might realize it, but we want universal healthcare because we really do care about you and you and you and you. If we had gotten our feces consolidated, universal healthcare would be a really, old, really obvious way to do things. Like in the rest of the civilized world.
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If big ag is so proud of their GMO creations why don't they label them as such and market them?
ag_dude
Jun 2012
#14
as many countries have. A chance in hell we can ban it here in US? Labeling is a compromise
Voice for Peace
Jul 2014
#169
The Indiana State Medical Association and the Illinois State Medical Society urge labeling (2012).
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#47
See genetically engineered bovine growth hormone fiasco, rBGH (breast/prostate cancer rates go up).
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#51
The American Academy Of Environmental Medicine Calls For Moratorium On GM Foods (2009).
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#54
One of Upton Sinclair's antagonists in The Jungle argued that very thing...
LanternWaste
Jun 2012
#37
It IS illegal to label food as not containing GMO, you really dont know what you are talking about
stockholmer
Jun 2012
#82
"Who said you should be required to buy food that you don't want to buy?"
A Simple Game
Jun 2012
#68
A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health
PostCapitalist
Jun 2012
#74
Monsanto GMO's linked to organ failure + GMO causes sterility in lab animals in 3 generations + more
stockholmer
Jun 2012
#81
I don't think that consumer choice requires a scientific justification...
LanternWaste
Aug 2012
#153
Actually there is a good reason not to label because nearly all processed foods do contain GMO
yellowcanine
Jun 2012
#125
Yeah, everybody's so healthy that we should just accept the status quo.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#127
seriously rat poison (you probably know already, it made the rats very sick.)
Voice for Peace
Aug 2012
#158
I don't get your question, & believe you may be trying to bait me so I'll decline to engage, thanks.
Voice for Peace
Jul 2014
#184
I would rather have physicians making recommendations about food safety than politicians.
yellowcanine
Jun 2012
#126
No what they are saying is that the GM process does not inherently make food less safe.
yellowcanine
Jun 2012
#129
Almost all processed foods contain GMO. So labeling is pretty much useless.
yellowcanine
Jun 2012
#133
Labeling is done in at least 49 countries worldwide and alternatives to GMOsourced food exist there.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#134
"Labeling is done in 49 countries" is not a valid argument. Look up "is/ought fallacy"
yellowcanine
Jun 2012
#145
Regardless, I would still like to know if the food I'm eating has been genetically altered.
Arkansas Granny
Jun 2012
#7
What's wrong with just being able to glance at any food package and tell if it has GMO ingredients?
Fumesucker
Jun 2012
#13
The issue is that the consumer has a right to know what they are purchasing.
Arkansas Granny
Jun 2012
#26
I don't recall that I have ever seen a label that says a food is NOT GMO.
Arkansas Granny
Jun 2012
#43
Yes I have. On some food items we are starting to see "No GMO's" "No BGH"..
PostCapitalist
Jun 2012
#75
Yep. Too bad the air quality of DU goes down with every outburst of trollish flatulence.
freshwest
Jun 2012
#88
The repetition is a dead give away, and the smell. You just can't escape... Le Sigh...
freshwest
Jun 2012
#92
7/6/12 NEWS - The 'Monsanto Rider': Are Biotech Companies About to Gain Immunity from Federal Law?
proverbialwisdom
Jul 2012
#147
That's way too pessimistic. I think a huge brawl is happening within the AMA over this (post #47).
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#76
Do you know how your Senator voted on the Sanders-Boxer amendment to permit states to require labels
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#86
Processed food additives from soy, corn, canola, sugar beets, cottonseed are GMO unless organic.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#97
Food Rules by Michael Pollan provides a simple guide without mentioning the term GMO.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#103
Fair point, and thanks, but that poster was talking about produce, saying sticker provides a clue
DisgustipatedinCA
Jun 2012
#106
I simultaneously feel that we're both on the same side, and that you just want to be confrontational
DisgustipatedinCA
Jun 2012
#110
Defeatist malarky or, rather, wishful thinking by fake food biz considering abysmal health outcomes.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#116
I'm very disappointed to see the number of Democrats voting nay with the Republican on this.
RainbowSuperfund
Jun 2012
#122
It may not be a question of need in the minds of the AMA but it is a question of what the public
Citizen Worker
Jun 2012
#98
Deciphering supermarket code system of fruits/veggies to find out if GMO:
mother earth
Jun 2012
#119
Just say if the code starts with 8, then the item is GMO; if it starts with 9, it cannot be GMO.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#120
Yes, certainly simplify to whatever suits your needs, but there is much confusion in "organic" & the
mother earth
Jun 2012
#121
What are you talking about? "GMO organics" do not exist, nor should they, despite what GMO co. want.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#123
Marketing/labeling organics when they aren't...that's what I mean, hence the confusion for the
mother earth
Jun 2012
#140
17 June 2012, EarthOpenSource Report: "GMO Myths and Truths, An evidence-based examination..."
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#124
Old MacDonald had a Farm, E-I-E-I-O. With a gmo here and a gmo there...
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#135
Friends of the Earth News Release: Going GM-Free in Europe but not USA.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#136
They might want to reconsider after reading this article posted in another thread:
RainbowSuperfund
Jun 2012
#138
Mother Jones:"Food Industry Ditches Trans Fats, Kids' Cholesterol Levels Drop"
proverbialwisdom
Aug 2012
#149