I'm happy that there's so many so enlighten techno-utopians here, who think that the consumers are not able to handle specific food labels. There's clearly a significant potion of the population who don't want GMOs, but those people's choice doesn't matter, the important part are the March Toward The Future under benevolent wisdom of Monsanto, a company who always put people first.
>implying that the Socialists on this forum trust Monsanto at all
yeah I don't think you get the whole socialism thing. I support GM crops and defend them against obvious snake oil salesmen on the so-called left, but that doesn't mean I trust/support Monsanto. The point is that GM crops rest on solid scientific evidence. As a socialist, I want the power represented by GM crops to be utilized in the public interest, i.e. by transforming the entire system of food production so that feeding people, rather than the pursuit of profit, is the end goal. You're arguing with a strawman in this thread, especially as the two vocal pro-GM people in it (myself and PJ) are leftists.
Okay I hate to tell you this; there's a difference between the capitalist real world we live in and your imaginative world, where the workers own the means of production and GMO are created by state run institutions, whose purpose are not to turn a profit and serve public interests. In this real world we live in right now, when you have GMO crops in your food, you can be sure that these crops have been created with one purpose, to increase their pesticide resistance, which allow a greater use of pesticide, which are not good news for the environment or the consumers.
Of course if we lived in a world where large state run institutions produced new strains of drought and salt resistant crops, which the farmers could use, your argument would be meaningful and correct. We could wish we lived in such a world, because like state setting up infrastructure, controlling natural monopolies and having a monopoly on the use of force, it would make a lot of sense. But we don't live in that world, so consumer awareness are more important, than delusional dreaming by people who have been misled by Big Business propaganda. Something I don't find very socialist.
Of course I'm not just a poor and ignorant proletarian and not a wise revolutionary vanguard as yourself, so what do I know.