The blowback against GMO foods appears to have even breached the Liberal-Conservative line. I know some people on the far right who spend time scouring lefty food co-ops for non-GMO edibles.
May never be a better time to sell your Monsanto stock.
Politicizing food is like pissing in the ocean. It accomplishes nothing of merit
Worrying over GMO foods is like the hysteria over global warming. Much ado about nothing. In the 70s people were all worked up about gnentically engineered organisms becoming the andromeda strain. Its been 50 years, these organisms are routinely used in all types of industry without problems.
“consumers are threatening to boycott products that are not labeled.”
So if you label, there is a defined group that will not purchase your product. If you do not label, a smaller group will boycott you.
If you buy food components to use in a food product, the layering can get three or four deep and it will be very difficult to know what you have. You buy a flour mix that has two types of wheat, some soy protein, some corn gluten, then you add to that “fruit mix” that comes in a drum and has six components.
The left doesnt want you to tamper with vegatables but you can tamper with human life.
What happened to progress and science?
Perhaps the liberal nutballs could just stop eating anything they don't raise themselves? That would solve a lot of problems.
Monsanto will not be pleased.
I just brought in a bunch of non-GMO green beans from the garden.
i want them labeled so I can avoid all natural and organic grown crap.
Who decides what qualifies as GMO?
Take a look at the history of maize some day. It takes quite a bit of imagination to understand that the grass maize has been manipulated into modern corn. And 90% of the manipulation was done over the course of millennia when the farmer just kept back the best seed for his next year's crop.
There is nothing different, only the speed at which the process isolates a gene then makes that gene dominant.
Unapproved genetically engineered wheat has been found growing on a farm in Oregon, federal officials said Wednesday, a development that could disrupt American exports of the grain.
The Agriculture Department said the wheat was of the type developed by Monsanto to be resistant to the herbicide Roundup, also known as glyphosate. Such wheat was field-tested in 16 states, including Oregon, from 1998 through 2005, but Monsanto dropped the project before the wheat was ever approved for commercial planting.
… the mere presence of the genetically modified plant could cause some countries to turn away exports of American wheat. About 90 percent of Oregon’s wheat crop is exported