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Labeling of genetically engineered food trailing in initial returns
Seattle Times ^ | 11/5/2013 | Sandi Doughton

Posted on 11/05/2013 9:02:04 PM PST by djwright

UPDATE, 8:20 p.m.: With 20 counties reporting– including King, Pierce, Spokane and Thurston — the initiative that would label genetically engineered food was trailing 47 percent to 53 percent. More results are coming.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: gmo; washingtonstate
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I am surprised (but relieved) this is failing here in liberal Washington. thank goodness we escape the governments boot for another day. But it looks like Seattle will try a job killing $15 minimum wage.
1 posted on 11/05/2013 9:02:04 PM PST by djwright
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confused why you would not want to know whats in your food, or maybe I am misreading something.


2 posted on 11/05/2013 9:04:16 PM PST by willywill
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Because the proposition is badly written. It requires labeling of about 30% of food items sold in grocery stores but not the other 70%.

Other bad thing about the proposition is that farmers and food producers in Washington state face unfair competition from other 49 states who do not require GMO labels. It would require farmers to forego GM seeds because people are not sure if GM foods are good or bad. That would most certainly increase cost of food in the state.

I voted against it along with all voting members in my family.


3 posted on 11/05/2013 9:10:46 PM PST by entropy12 (Obama is succeeding in destroying economy & healthcare, and expanding freebies to his voters)
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To: willywill

Who examines what’s in food at the genetic level? You don’t absorb genes from food; those are broken down by your digestive enzymes. Protease breaks down proteins. There aren’t any new amino acids created by genetic mods. What exactly are you looking for?


4 posted on 11/05/2013 9:10:58 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: djwright

I think the $15 minimum wage applies only to Seatac airport and surrounding business workers. About 300 total will be affected. Disclaimer - I have not checked this fact thoroughly. Looks like it is an experiment. Minimum wage in WA state is already the highest in country (almost $10/hr).


5 posted on 11/05/2013 9:14:44 PM PST by entropy12 (Obama is succeeding in destroying economy & healthcare, and expanding freebies to his voters)
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FYI…..Minimum wage in Washington state is $9.19.


6 posted on 11/05/2013 9:25:26 PM PST by Gator113 ( Cruz, Palin and Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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To: entropy12; djwright

“I voted against it along with all voting members in my family”

As did my wife and I. All you had to do was look at who was endorsing the ‘yes’ vote. Move-On.org and a bunch of other nut jobs.

As for the Seattle minimum age, I don’t think a city has the authority to set wages. Watch for that to go to court if it passes.


7 posted on 11/05/2013 9:26:53 PM PST by beelzepug (if any alphabets are watchin', I'll be coming home right after the meetin')
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To: beelzepug

That’s the right reason to oppose it, of course.


8 posted on 11/05/2013 9:30:13 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: entropy12

It will be interesting to see what happens to the $15 minimum wage. Hopefully all of the businesses will move out of SeaTac.

One of the commentators said the $15 minimum is needed because SeaTac has the highest property tax in the state. Friken liberals. “Taxes are too high. So raise the minimum wage.”

BTW - I think that the union pay scales are rated against the minimum wage (1xmin., 1.5 x min., 4 x min., etc.) So it is not just an increase in the minimum wage, but all union wages.


9 posted on 11/05/2013 9:35:35 PM PST by 21twelve
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To: Olog-hai

I voted against it. But then I vote against any and all expansion of government regulation.


10 posted on 11/05/2013 9:36:42 PM PST by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: djwright
I am surprised (but relieved) this is failing here in liberal Washington.

If there had been a (D) next to the initiative on the ballot, it would have passed easily. I despise the brain-dead King County electorate that controls this state.

11 posted on 11/05/2013 9:40:24 PM PST by Junior_G (Funny how liberals' love affair with Muslims began on 9/11)
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Boy, that will teach me to only look at KingCo’s results. I only had a few seconds to look at someone’s computer screen and the page had 522 passing handily.

As you say - thank goodness the rest of the state isn’t following the Seattlunatics!


12 posted on 11/05/2013 9:41:56 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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Reminds me of the communistic outlook on agriculture in the Manifesto.
  1. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of wastelands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
  2. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
  3. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country. …
This illustrates where our “factory farming” has its source, never mind all the other scientific and governmental regulatory abominations.
13 posted on 11/05/2013 9:43:26 PM PST by Olog-hai
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I’d like to know what’s in my organic grain but I don’t see it in the labeling. Don’t I have a right to know, too?


14 posted on 11/05/2013 9:44:28 PM PST by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: count-your-change

All grains have been genetically modified for about 50 years.


15 posted on 11/05/2013 9:49:03 PM PST by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: Gator113

I think that is the current wage, and scheduled to go up Jan 1st.


16 posted on 11/05/2013 9:49:38 PM PST by entropy12 (Obama is succeeding in destroying economy & healthcare, and expanding freebies to his voters)
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To: angry elephant

And by selective breeding for thousands of years. The con you eat today is nothing like the corn the Incas ate.


17 posted on 11/05/2013 9:50:25 PM PST by djwright (2012 The White House Gets Another Coat Of Shellac)
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To: Olog-hai

Nonsense. Factory farming is an innovation created by capitalists maximizing their profits, not some communist conspiracy. The communist idea was for the state to control agriculture by using laborers with no interest in the land they were working. It really has nothing to do with factory farming where capitalists try to squeeze more profits out of their privately owned land.


18 posted on 11/05/2013 9:53:37 PM PST by Boogieman
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Think again, and think about it very closely. Who is the biggest supporter of factory farming in the USA? I don’t see the left dismantling it; they subsidize the blazes out of it, rather.

Why would the beginnings of factory farming be in the Communist Manifesto, in black and white? It’s part of the record.


19 posted on 11/05/2013 9:56:46 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: angry elephant

I was thinking of rodent droppings and insects.


20 posted on 11/05/2013 10:02:24 PM PST by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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