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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« on: November 07, 2014, 01:26:33 PM »

Yea, how is this bad?  I'm not saying GMOs are inherently bad, but what's wrong with giving people information?  Is there something tangible we can compare this to? 
It's sort of like nutrition labels.  There comes a point at which there are diminishing returns in including more information.  Even there, government action is more intended to provide a standardized format for the info some consumers desire so as to make it easy to locate.  In the absence of any demonstrated harm to people from eating GMO products, requiring products that contain them to note that seems like overkill, especially since producers are free to trumpet the fact their product is GMO-free if they want so there already is a de facto labeling of GMO products going on.  The situation is similar to BGH in dairy products, or more generally with organic foods.
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« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2014, 03:24:54 PM »

I hope the right side wins.  The arguments made by idiots who don't want GMO labeling are ridiculous.
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« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2014, 01:10:11 PM »

People deserve to know what's in their food, and it's wrong for many of you to side with businesses instead of the consumers.

Not if it has no meaning and serves only to scare people for no good reason. I side with consumers of food who oppose labelling things like THIS PRODUCT USES FERTILISER MADE FROM CHEMICALS and THIS PRODUCT WAS GROWN USING MECHANICALLY SOURCED WATER.

If a product uses "fertilizer made from chemicals," then it cannot legally be labeled as organic. These things really do matter to a lot of people, you know.

Actually it can be labelled organic, depending on how the fertilizer was made. Organic farming is not the same as chemical-free farming.
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