Reply #66: For a little balance.......

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1. Two of the bigger companies producing GM Seeds are from Switzerland, not EU, but European
2. Addition of pesticide in the U.S. is regulated, including when it can be added. Also, food ingredients are routinely tested for pesticide residues.
3. rGBH is a synthetic version of a hormone already present in cattle. According to Federal Law (FDA regulations), milk can NOT be labeled as "hormone-free" (because that is not true) and NOT as "rGBH-free" (since research has shown no difference between the natural and synthetic versions of the hormone.
4. Chlorinating: I am not certain how many companies actually do this, relative to steaming or irradiation, but I suspect that the amount of chlorine might not exceed that in our water.
5. Surprise, surprise....people are trying to ban another artificial sweetner. Saccharin has been removed from the ban list (although people will be scared to ever use it again), NutraSweet has been investigated thoroughly.....but with no data supporting a ban. Some people just don't like "artificial" anything.

I notice that there has also been an effort to "inform" people of the ills of High-Fructose Corn Syrup, which appears to have no basis in science. I wonder if that might have something to do with the vast majority of it being produced in the U.S.

I am for proper investigation of every new food ingredient, before and AFTER approval. However, I am opposed to trying to bring people to their knees, in the interest of being "anti-corporate". Real people work for corporations too....and can be hurt.