The brewing debate over genetically modified crops continues to evolve.
The latest: a front page story in The New York Time today talked about the grassroots push to label foods that contain genetically modified organisms — think corn flakes and other cereals. Despite assurances to the contrary, many Americans remain skeptical and are unconvinced. They want genetically modified crops to be labeled, if not eliminated.
Closer to home, California probably will vote this year on GMO labeling. Oregon tried a decade ago, but it didn’t pass. Likewise, fights over genetically modified beets and alfalfa have been fought in Oregon, with courts eventually allowing both.
If I was a food company executive I’d certainly want mandatory labels on my competitors’ products. That is, if I were an unscrupulous food company executive. This is a bid to gain an unfair marketing/advertising advantage, pure and simple.
Is Funk’s G Hybrid okay?
Simple solution, let it happen and the price of non-GMO foods will skyrocket and/or no farmer will produce them because they won’t be able to due to disease and pest. Let the activists starve.
This is nonsense. But most people are ignorant or just plain stupid. ALL of our food is genetically modified. What the kooks are complaing about are transgenic modification. Let them show any evidence that there’s a difference. They can’t there’s no evidence, or for that matter, any good reason to suspect so.