in other good news, GMO labeling loses in OR and CO

[Simfan34]

Excellent news!

[Simfan34]

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? 

GMOs are seen as "scary" and this would provide no benefit to consumers. It would needlessly stigmatise an important innovation in food production. It's a dumb idea.

[Simfan34]

Yes, we don't want to give consumers this info because in likelihood they will choose GMO-free food and that would be awful for society.

Exactly. As we know people are terrible, and this would be terrible for starving people who need more food to be produced.

[Simfan34]

Everyone cheering this should be ashamed of their shilling for Monsanto. Disgusting.

Any decent human being should stop and think at least ten times before deciding to take the same position on any issue as Monsanto, probably the most evil corporation not directly involved in fossil fuels.

You'd think Monsanto was some gargantuan monopolistic parastatal judging by the obsession some people have about it...

[Simfan34]

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.