04-19-2014, 05:21 AM
"So why not just label it. Like a pack of cigarettes?"
Perhaps because consuming GMO food is definitely not the same as smoking tobacco? Considerations of tobacco's dangers started a long time before 75 years ago.
"In 1826, the pure form of nicotine is finally discovered. Soon after, scientists conclude that nicotine is a dangerous poison." http://academic.udayton.edu/health/sylla....htm#begin
In the case of GMO foods we have a great deal of independent scientific review of GMO food safety and are not reliant on profit-focused corporations for evidence of lack of harm. In Hawai'i the state Department of Health refused to administer a proposed GMO labeling law because there has been no evidence of harm to health.
Perhaps because consuming GMO food is definitely not the same as smoking tobacco? Considerations of tobacco's dangers started a long time before 75 years ago.
"In 1826, the pure form of nicotine is finally discovered. Soon after, scientists conclude that nicotine is a dangerous poison." http://academic.udayton.edu/health/sylla....htm#begin
In the case of GMO foods we have a great deal of independent scientific review of GMO food safety and are not reliant on profit-focused corporations for evidence of lack of harm. In Hawai'i the state Department of Health refused to administer a proposed GMO labeling law because there has been no evidence of harm to health.