11-18-2013, 04:29 PM
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Originally posted by Bullwinkle
Why all the drama
I agree. After 20 years there is no credible scientific evidence that GMOs are harmful, either to people's health or to the environment. Sorry, but that's just the truth. So why all the drama?
In August the top French Court struck down the French ban on two kinds of GMO corn:
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A wrangle over growing genetically modified crops in France flared anew on Thursday as the country's top administrative court overturned a government ban on growing GM corn sold by the US giant Monsanto.
In the second legal setback to French restrictions on MON810 corn in five years, the Council of State court said a moratorium imposed on the product since March 2012 failed to uphold European Union law.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/art...kB2tgqCBlg
Not that that will stop the anti-science crowd from trying to throw their sabots into the machinery to jam it, as they famously did early in the Industrial Revolution. Now the Agricultural Council has indicated they'll ignore the court decision. <sigh>
The first US law mandating GMO labelling was ruled invalid on Constitutional grounds. The 1994 Vermont rBGH labelling law was struck down in a 1996 decision by the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which made it clear that food companies can not be forced to label their products with a "demonized" label which has no scientific basis.
So why all the drama?