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To: Carry_Okie

You’re posting such a mish mash of nonsense that it’s comical. You can’t see, or refuse to see, that the government intervention in the free market has already taken place. It took place, and often takes place, when producers of consumer products go to DC and buy and pay for enough representatives and senators to avoid reasonable labeling requirements about the products they sell.

You’ve gone off on all sorts of irrelevant tangents when all that is required is a simple disclosure about how food products were produced. We’re not talking about car paint formulations, but mostly about whether the corn used to make the tortilla chips was GMO or not.

Producers spend millions lobbying to escape any labeling requirement they think might cause some group of consumers to refrain from buying their products. That goes on all the time and this is just one of the more recent examples. The Big Government, Big Brother intervention in the free market has already taken place, and in this case it was an intervention to deny consumers perfectly reasonable information about products offered for sale.

And, yes, food producers know whether they are using GMO ingredients in foods that contain many ingredients.

Nothing could be simpler: put the simple disclosure on foods and let the consumers decide what they want to purchase. It’s called freedom. What you want is Big Brother style government intervention in the free market, which has already taken place where GMO foods are concerned.

And, no how much you dissemble and deny, perfect knowledge as to product and price are requirements of a free market.
And disclosures about paint formulations are probably available at some point in the distribution chain.


24 posted on 09/25/2012 5:35:40 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Will88
Nobody else is laughing here. Some are telling you to desist with your tyrannical preferences.

You can’t see, or refuse to see, that the government intervention in the free market has already taken place.

I wrote a whole book about it, idiot, because I SEE where it leads, long before you ever will. You're braiding the rope to wrap around your neck. So get used to crawling on all fours serf.

You’ve gone off on all sorts of irrelevant tangents when all that is required is a simple disclosure about how food products were produced.

I'll bet you are perfectly happy to buy a great many food products that you have no idea how they are made. Ever heard of a "secret recipe"?

We’re not talking about car paint formulations, but mostly about whether the corn used to make the tortilla chips was GMO or not.

Paint can kill or injure you, just like bad food can. You can't see what is in it. That GMO is likely to be a proprietary product.

Producers spend millions lobbying to escape any labeling requirement they think might cause some group of consumers to refrain from buying their products.

So what? They paid many more millions to produce those products and don't want people to steal them. Your option is to pay them what it is worth to tell you what you want to know about the product when you buy it. You want to get government to take that information by force and give it to you for free.

And, yes, food producers know whether they are using GMO ingredients in foods that contain many ingredients.

Insipid comment.

And, no how much you dissemble and deny, perfect knowledge as to product and price are requirements of a free market.

No, it isn't. Trade secrets are part of any free market because they are a matter of PROPERTY RIGHTS. You don't like private property rights, so you build a government capable of forcing you to tell them everything about what you do and where you go and who you do business with and how you do it. Then you sell yourself as a "conservative."

Pathetic.

25 posted on 09/25/2012 7:24:06 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The Slave Party Switcheroo: Economic crisis! Zero's eligibility Trumped!! Hillary 2012!!!)
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