10-03-2012, 08:22 PM
beejee: "Paul, would you mind outlining your argument/s why you're against labeling our food. Why no full disclosure and transparency here similar to the drug industry?"
As I said already, there isn't enough room on the label for everyone's unsubstantiated fears.
What if a group stood up and said fruit grown on a Wednesday is evil so that should be mentioned on
the label too? Would you support that? Why not - isn't that "full disclosure"? There is no evidence
that GM food is harmful, hence there is no reason to put it on the label.
LeeE: you really should try reading some actual news websites.
YurtGirl: Please show me where I claimed it was settled, my GM papayas must be affecting my memory.
I said that there is no evidence to conclude that GM food is unsafe. If there is enough scientific
studies saying the opposite then I will change my mind. Nothing will change the minds of the anti-GM
fanatics because their beliefs are just that. What "stirring evidence"? May I remind you that in some
cases the food produced by GM crops is identical down to molecular level to that produced by non-GM
crops. There is no need to even test it when that is the case, yet people will still insist that
somehow it's dangerous because we'd better-be-safe-than-sorry.
Shekelpal: just because you wrote OF THE SAME SPECIES all in caps doesn't make it true.
Never heard of a tangelo? Genetic manipulation has been around for a very long time, we have
just found a more efficient and less cumbersome way of doing it.
"Farmers who go with GMO have to buy new GMO seed each year." Are you sure? And if so,
whay does it matter - they can buy their seed from anyone.
"If their GMO seed pollutes a neighboring field, the people owning that field can be sued by Monsanto"
Sorry, that is not true. If the neighboring farmer miraculously ends up with 99% GM seed (obviously
planted on purpose) then yes, they may be sued. This is what happened in the case that anti-GM activists
keep going on about, without bothering to check the facts.
dwedeking: Glad to hear that you're also against labeling! Our numbers are growing.
Delridge: thanks for demonstrating once again the motives of some (most?) anti-GM activists: blind fear.
As I said already, there isn't enough room on the label for everyone's unsubstantiated fears.
What if a group stood up and said fruit grown on a Wednesday is evil so that should be mentioned on
the label too? Would you support that? Why not - isn't that "full disclosure"? There is no evidence
that GM food is harmful, hence there is no reason to put it on the label.
LeeE: you really should try reading some actual news websites.
YurtGirl: Please show me where I claimed it was settled, my GM papayas must be affecting my memory.
I said that there is no evidence to conclude that GM food is unsafe. If there is enough scientific
studies saying the opposite then I will change my mind. Nothing will change the minds of the anti-GM
fanatics because their beliefs are just that. What "stirring evidence"? May I remind you that in some
cases the food produced by GM crops is identical down to molecular level to that produced by non-GM
crops. There is no need to even test it when that is the case, yet people will still insist that
somehow it's dangerous because we'd better-be-safe-than-sorry.
Shekelpal: just because you wrote OF THE SAME SPECIES all in caps doesn't make it true.
Never heard of a tangelo? Genetic manipulation has been around for a very long time, we have
just found a more efficient and less cumbersome way of doing it.
"Farmers who go with GMO have to buy new GMO seed each year." Are you sure? And if so,
whay does it matter - they can buy their seed from anyone.
"If their GMO seed pollutes a neighboring field, the people owning that field can be sued by Monsanto"
Sorry, that is not true. If the neighboring farmer miraculously ends up with 99% GM seed (obviously
planted on purpose) then yes, they may be sued. This is what happened in the case that anti-GM activists
keep going on about, without bothering to check the facts.
dwedeking: Glad to hear that you're also against labeling! Our numbers are growing.
Delridge: thanks for demonstrating once again the motives of some (most?) anti-GM activists: blind fear.