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In reply to the discussion: GMO foods don't need special label, American Medical Assn. says [View all]roody
(10,849 posts)63. What is so scary about labeling, Mr. Monsanto? eom
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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