"But what of the Congressional action? I suspect, this too, is but a stage in a wider and probably secret agenda cooked up in the frankenfood boardrooms of these hideous companies, who, confronted with growing market opposition, are simply resorting to the coercive power of the state to deny people and states reasonable access to information concerning the food they’re putting into their bodies. They won’t stop there… It is entirely possible, given then non-responsiveness and non-representative nature of the USSA’s governmental institutions and their inability to represent the people, but only too big to fail and too big to jail corporations and banks, that these corporations will seek the ultimate in their mercantilist dreams: a requirement that farmers grow nothing but their “scientifically tested and safe” products. By seeking such legislation, they’ve already declared themselves against freedom, and they won’t stop with a prohibition on labeling."/
Extortion plain and simple.
Frankenfood may or may not be any riskier than what Mother Nature dishes up herself now.
But this problem here seems to be a symptom of a Frankengovernment.
It’s about 4 times bigger (and tax hungry) than it needs to be.
There’s nothing wrong with forcing a company who labels their food “100% natural ingredients” or “all natural”...from also stating that, well, er, it IS GMO.
The states have a right to demand labeling, even though there’s no evidence genetic modification produces any ill effects. Every single food we eat is “genetically modified”.