06-19-2014, 12:14 PM
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Originally posted by kalakoa
I'll ask, once more, why we're wasting valuable time and effort fighting this at the County level when any GMO regulations are (or will soon be) pre-empted by State and/or Federal laws, especially where County has demonstrated their willingness to cede local control.
There has to be litigation at the local level to raise it to the federal and state level. Right now, it's doubtful the FDA has even heard of the Hawaii county ban. That is kind of strange right there, other states are getting headlines for GMO label votes, and nobody even whispers that Hawaii county has an outright ban.
As for the corn being modified to feed animals, cows have seven stomachs and we drink their babies' milk. Interesting thing about cow milk, up until 7,000 years ago, adult humans were unable to drink cow milk because there was no enzyme to process lactose. Somewhere around 7,000 years ago, coinciding with the invention of agriculture, a genetic mutation occurred in humans in multiple locations around the planet so that most adults could drink cow's milk. This genetic mutation is being attributed to the invention of agriculture and domestication of the cow. About 1/3 of humans don't have this genetic mutation and they are known as lactose intolerant.
Nature is conducting genetic modification all the time, and most of the modifications are harmful to the being, resulting in defects or death. Every once in awhile, the genetic modification is successful and passed on to future generations.
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