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To: Future Snake Eater
My car's engine is not my body.

No, but you do inhale unburned gasoline. Everybody does.

If they want to expand the language to incorporate the data you refer to, more power to them, but steps need to be taken.

Ever heard of UL? They somehow verify production of all sorts of products for your safety without a government agency telling them to do it. The UPC tests your plumbing. The ASTM designs the test methods for the cement in the concrete on the bridges you drive over. All of these are about risk to health and safety.

It is the existence of a police empowered government risk management monopoly that precludes similar private services. Unfortunately, that means is so easily corrupted that you see dangerous vaccines being forced on the general public, or far more hazardous goods from abroad holing a preferential place on the store shelf. In fact, it is because of government regulation that Monsanto can get away with a product like Bt corn. USDA approval of the product makes suing them VERY expensive.

114 posted on 10/22/2012 9:26:30 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Islam offers us choices: convert or kill, submit or die.)
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To: Carry_Okie
They somehow verify production of all sorts of products for your safety without a government agency telling them to do it.

The implication here is that we should just assume that food companies such as Monsanto really do have our best interests at heart. Are we to believe that adding a label that says "Contains Genetically Modified Ingredients" or "This product is genetically modified" would be prohibitively expensive?

Unfortunately, that means is so easily corrupted that you see dangerous vaccines being forced on the general public

This proposition is looking to inform the consumer of a potential danger, not forcing further dangers on us.

In fact, it is because of government regulation that Monsanto can get away with a product like Bt corn. USDA approval of the product makes suing them VERY expensive.

You're referring to massive companies buying regulations they want to make themselves more powerful and keep competitors down. I fail to see how that problem relates to this matter.

127 posted on 10/22/2012 1:30:14 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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