California Prop 37 (GMO FOOD labeling)

[Aaron]

I ran into this on my journey through ballotpedia today, looking at all the state's major initiatives.

The dynamics in this proposition are melting my mind right now. It is polling 61 percent IN FAVOR of labeling foods.... with ONE financial backer, (mercola) over a million dollars... meanwhile Monsanto is throwing down to the tune of 7 MILLION DOLLARS to shut this bill down. Right behind it is basically the most impressive list of thug corporations I have ever seen lined up against a single bill.

I have always been against GMO foods, solely for the reason that not labeling them has given corporations a total free pass to bringing these products to market. No one 5 years ago, and most still now who are uneducated about GMO foods would choose a tomato that said "Genetically modified" over one that didn't. From a business standpoint it pisses me off that they completely went around the free market. I've only recently started experimenting with non gmo foods to see if they work better with my digestion etc etc....


Anyway, outside of the Colorado marijuana legalization, which at this point is almost a guaranteed supreme court battle on deck.... this is the most impressive ballot measure in the country.

http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/C ... %282012%29

[Spider]

There should be a giant red sticked front and center of any engineered food product.

[Aaron]

Doesn't need to be giant... it's just that it's painfully obvious that letting people know that it's not natural would be a deal breaker, and that's why you have the following list of opponents:

Monsanto $7,100,500
E.I. Dupont De Nemours & Co. $4,900,000
DOW Agrisciences $2,000,000
Bayer Cropscience $2,000,000
BASF Plant Science $2,000,000
Pepsico, Inc. $1,716,300
Nestle USA $1,169,400
Coca-Cola North America $1,164,400
Conagra Foods $1,076,700
Syngenta Corporation $1,000,000
General Mills $908,200
Del Monte Foods $674,100
Kellogg Company $632,500
Hershey Company $498,006
The J.M. Smucker Company $388,000
Council for Biotechnology Information $375,000
Grocery Manufacturers Association $375,000
Hormel Foods $374,300
Bumble Bee Foods $368,500
Ocean Spray Cranberries $362,100
Sara Lee $343,600
Bimbo Bakeries $338,300
Pioneer Hi-Bred International $310,100
Pinnacle Foods $266,100
Dean Foods Company $253,950
Biotechnology Industry Organization $252,000
Campbell's Soup $250,000
McCormick & Company $248,200
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company $237,664
Rich Products Corporation $225,537
Cargill, Inc. $202,229
Dole Packaged Foods $171,261
Knouse Foods Cooperative $135,831
Mars Food North America $100,242

[The Comrade]

here's the issue i find with GMOs

they're ubiquitous now. we really can't put the lid back on pandora's box with the ones we've already made. and since they don't seem to cause problems...accept it?

but i still think they should be labeled. in fact, i think nutritional labels need to have more on them. a lot more.

[Kane]

[John Galt]

i don't see an issue with labels, i see an issue with scare mongering that makes it so people don't like the idea of gmo foods. it's the future. we can limit pesiticdes and fertilizer use while gaining crop yields. we can get more nutritional value out of foods etc etc. it's really not that much different than anything else we've done in the past with creating hybrids. hell the original plant they think corn came from is this tiny little thing that is smaller than those baby corns in chinese food, and we made corn without modern technology. we're just making the world a better place.

anyone who doesn't like gmo is nothing more than a backwards luddite

[Aaron]

[The Comrade]

corn is seriously a plague on the world.

[Aaron]

[John Galt]