YAY!!!!
Go SoCal!
We would VERY MUCH LIKE TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE EATING!!
As California goes, especially in this case...so goes the Country!
F**k Michael Taylor !
Head of the FDA and Former scumbag DEM contibutor from scum sucking virus/fungal/bacteria producing MONSANTO seed!
Did I make myself clear?
These are EVIL people!
Consumers should be provided relevant information about the products that are for sale. I hope it passes.
How has Greenpeace and Fiends of Earth so brain washed even people on FR? Mainly, again, it based on emotion and not science. It not a coincidence that all the left wing websites and the MSM are promoting this proposition. Very sad that we have FR people promoting it.
Our family is voting NO NO NO! NO more GOVERNMENT control!
Have you all lost your minds, falling for the communist enviro-nazis scare tactics which serve no other purpose than to kill free enterprise and the economy?!
That’s what this is.
Here are the recommendations as listed on the CA GOP website for all the propositions:
http://www.cagop.org/newsdetails.asp?artId=5E5F58
They recommend NO on Prop37
Are we now worried about what we buy in the Grocery Store, yet we wolf down a Big Mac without giving it a second thought? Since I do not spend my days tripping over dead bodies clutching opened packages of food containing GMO’s (Genetically Altered Organisms), I have to wonder why this is a burning issue. Then I remember, I live in Commiefornia and it all becomes crystal clear.
If people really want this intrusion, I have to think that they believe there are Companies out there with a business model that includes killing their own customers for fun, profit and maximized returns to their Shareholders. That's if their Shareholders haven't already succumbed.
I don’t trust either side on the issue. That is why I want the ingredients DISCLOSED on the ingredients list.
Whether to ban GMO is a separate issue.
http://www.noprop37.com/facts/
Proposition 37 would ban the sale of tens of thousands of perfectly-safe, common grocery products only in California unless they are specially repackaged, relabeled or made with higher cost ingredients. Prop 37 is a deceptive, deeply flawed food labeling scheme that would add more government bureaucracy and taxpayer costs, create new frivolous lawsuits, and increase food costs by billions — without providing any health or safety benefits. That’s why Prop 37 is opposed by a broad coalition of family farmers, scientists, doctors, business, labor, taxpayers and consumers.
PROP 37 CONFLICTS WITH SCIENCE
Biotechnology, also called genetic engineering (GE), has been used for nearly two decades to grow varieties of corn, soybeans and other crops that resist diseases and insects and require fewer pesticides. Thousands of common foods are made with ingredients from biotech crops. Prop 37 bans these perfectly safe foods only in California unless they’re specially relabeled or remade with higher cost ingredients.
PROP 37 MEANS MORE BUREAUCRACY AND TAXPAYER COSTS
Prop 37 forces state bureaucrats to administer its complex requirements by monitoring tens of thousands of food labels at tens of thousands of grocery stores, retail outlets, farms and food companies. In fact, it sets no limit on how many millions would be spent on bureaucracy, red tape and lawsuits. It’s a blank check… paid by taxpayers.
PROP 37 AUTHORIZES SHAKEDOWN LAWSUITS
Prop 37 was written by a trial lawyer to benefit trial lawyers. Its primary sponsor is a trial lawyer whose firm and organization have made more than $3 million suing under the terms of another proposition he helped write. Prop 37 creates a whole new class of “headhunter lawsuits,†allowing lawyers to sue family farmers and grocers without any proof of harm. It subjects farmers, grocers and food companies to huge litigation costs and lawyer payouts.
PROP 37 MEANS HIGHER FOOD COSTS
Prop 37 forces farmers and food companies to implement costly new labeling, packaging, distribution, recordkeeping and other bureaucratic operations that will cost billions of dollars to implement. Or, companies will be forced to switch to higher-priced, non-GE ingredients, like organics, in order to sell food in California. Economic studies show this would increase food costs for the average family by hundreds of dollars per year – a hidden food tax that would especially hurt seniors and low-income families who can least afford it.
This is the latest effort of the Nanny Left to tell us what to eat. It requires foods that contain any ingredients resulting from biotechnology advances to carry the scary warning: “GENETICALLY ENGINEERED.” There is not a shred of evidence that biotechnology is the least bit dangerous - it often reduces the need for pesticides. To avoid branding their products with the Scarlet Warning, food processors would have to prove that every scrap and crumb in their fare is devoid of biotechnology or face crushing lawsuits. Grocery prices high enough yet?
http://www.tommcclintock.com/blog/tom-on-the-california-2012-propositions
I would vote for it, too. There are potential health problems surrounding this food, and it needs to be easier to avoid if the consumer so desires.
Yes, there are two sides:
Monsanto, and the people.
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People have a need, and a right to know what is in their food, and that is all Prop 37 does.
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The AMAZING work that crop geneticists and plant breeders have done; is very much responsible for the disaster dodging crops that are being harvested.
Call it GMO; call it whatever; but it is vital and amazing technology
We’ve been selectively breeding food stock for thousands of years, ALL our food is genetically engineered, has been for a while. The only difference is now we’re more precise. People need to panic less.
Any comments to this article? Your opinion would be valuable.
People with full stomachs have a lot of time to complain and pass laws that won’t do a dammn thing but make the problem worse..........................
I voted NO!!!
I’m all for genetically modified food!
I won’t buy or eat organic crap!