I'm knew to the whole GMO thing, and I see a lot of people so irrational they can't explain what they're upset about without spitting and slobbering angrily:
So let me ask you, what such labels would accomplish. I actually don't know, so thank you.
It would allow people to make informed decisions about what they eat. Some, no doubt, wouldn’t care about the additional information. I believe that many others, like you, would try to learn more about the possible consequences of growing and ingesting GMOs.
At the very least, I believe that achieving a healthy level of public discourse would expose the FDA and Monsanto’s shameful conduct. Why shouldn’t people be allowed to know exactly what they’re eating? There’s no reason to keep such harmless information away from the public.
I’m always in favor of putting knowledge in people’s hands because I understand the power of an informed decision. Many young adults my age are liberal because their college professors fed them propaganda and never taught them to think. Good people support lousy companies because they simply don’t know what’s going on.
Whether you’re a GMO proponent or opponent, we should all agree that companies who work to keep people in the dark don’t deserve our support any more than the politicians in Washington who work to the same end.
And let’s not forget that raising awareness of governmental corruption can only work to our advantage as conservatives.
Not pickin’ on you, really!
The problem with the GMO thing is (maybe) not the genetic modifications themselves.
The problem is that they’ve been genetically modified to withstand a soaking in Roundup and still produce a crop for you and I to eat. Roundup usage has gone up from (IIRC) 7 million pounds to 119 million pounds since the introduction of GMO corn.