The U.S. Department of Agriculture as well as the California Department of Public Health already have the responsibility of assuring that food is healthy and safe. Voters don’t need to adopt additional oversight when there are existing public agencies funded to do that.
Consumers will be forced to bear the costs of the new requirements including costs of litigation brought on by lawyers lined up at the courthouse doors.
Half of all food products in the grocery store already contain genetically modified ingredients to no demonstrable ill effect on consumers.
If you want unmodified products you should shop at a natural foods market and spare the rest of us the expense of your purchasing decisions.
That's the claim, but it is not a fact. What the USDA assures is that the producers have gone through the USDA hoops, and nothing more, and if you have ever qualified a product with them as I have, you'd really understand the distinction.
Worse, there is nothing in Article I Section 8 that empowers the Congress to assume that police power.
If you want unmodified products you should shop at a natural foods market and spare the rest of us the expense of your purchasing decisions.
He wants the service but doesn't want to pay for that extra cost, typical of the nanny state liberal he claims not to be.
I don’t trust the government to assure me things are safe.
I want to see the bottom line and labelling requirements ensure that so I support them. “No demonstratable ill effects”? That is trusting nanny government to make sure things are fine rather than letting me.