every food mfgr in the country should put this on their label just in case some ingredient in their product turns out to be gm without their knowledge, then their azz is already covered rather than have a lawsuit spring up out of nowhereClorox?!
A major problem that needs to be resolved, likely with a constitutional amendment, is that while corporation do merit having rights, these rights are granted by government; unlike the civil rights of people that naturally exist.
Therefore, if government wishes to exclude corporations and ngo’s from being able to give campaign money, it can do so.
The end result will be that states will still charter corporations, but the federal government will afford corporations rights so that they cannot be abused by the states. (Which was the original intent of corporate civil rights in Lincoln’s time.)
Anyone stop to think that everything is genetically modified? Is cross breeding a soybean plant with another which shows better resistance to drought evil?
The CSPI is behind this. The end result is more regulation, more cost to label which will get passed on to guess who?
every food mfgr in the country should put this on their label just in case some ingredient in their product turns out to be gm without their knowledge, then their azz is already covered rather than have a lawsuit spring up out of nowhereI think it would be safe to assume that anything with corn or soybeans in it is GMO derived.
522 is "throw out the baby with the bathwater" shotgun legislation that does way more damage than it will ever do good. I'm agin it.
Oh, and a Washington ping while I'm at it ;')
CA requires that every store that sells any known carcinogen post a sign stating that fact (Prop 65). So every store that sells anything at all posted the sign, and we are none the better informed for it.
So every food package will state that it MAY contain GMO, and that will be that.
Surely you don’t think that Pepsi will conduct gene sequencing on all the ingredients for every batch? That’s the only way to tell if your sugar or corn starch or chocolate came from a modified organism, and sequencing is not cheap.
It’s going to cost Bruce more than that to re-do their labels - looks like smart money on their part. They probably ought to consider pulling out of the state if this passes.
Will certified organic produce growers have to label their products as having been fertilized with animal shit?
Did anyone sue to get the names of the groups supporting I-522?
There is a direct correlation with what I saw in the forest products industry and FSC (a European forest “certification” program. Decimated the small tree farmer)
God d*mn euro treet huggers at it now on farms.
Who cares if the food has a GMO in it? Most everything would would.
It is a incredibly good technology.
Free Trader Communists are the biggest opponents of GMO labeling.
If the GMO stuff is so good...they would not fight labeling. Heck, if my product is good...I would want to label it
The same Free Trader Communists also fought labeling on non-GMO imports, from places like Communist China and Latin America.
Most of these companies spend big money on advertising, so there is no financial excuse not to label
We do not know what the long term results of eating Frankenfoods will be. Some think the explosion of obesity is due to playing around with foods. Sure, some is due to overeating, but in the 60's we ate Wonder bread, mashed potatoes with butter, fatty pork chops fried in oil, chocolate cake with buttercream icing, whole milk, and hardly anybody was fat.
How did this initiative fail in CA? You’d figure it would be a shoe in there.
Will this pass in WA?
Just wondering, Which is better, GMO food or mass starvation on a global scale? ALL corn, ALL soybeans, and much of the rice grown today are GMO and have been since the 1930’s. Corn yield in 1930 was 30 bushels per acre, Corn yield today is 140-145 bushels per acre. Population in 1930 was about 2 billion, population today is over 7 billion.
Are you the one who gets to choose which 5 billion die?
Update:
Statewide poll numbers show:
Support 45%
Opposed 38%
Undecided 16%