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In reply to the discussion: Since a lot of people want to label GMO food here is what I propose. [View all]Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)38. Yes, because people want to make the informed choice, a rational motivation
and reasonable in a democracy. This is DU and that is what labeling would enable.
My personal rational reasons, as, amongst other things, an environmental sciences graduate from the 1970s, include the desire to be able to make choices which might help to avoid or mitigate possible ecosystemic risks from predictable and unpredictable effects on the modified and associated species arising from the use of genetic engineering, and a desire to resist the control and contamination of food chains, human beings, their societies and the natural environment by monopolistic and corrupt crony-corporations.
Your rational reasons against labeling?
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Use of Roundup has dramaticalliy increased since resistant GMO plants introduced n/t
eridani
Dec 2015
#3
It doesn't seem to matter to many that the science based argument for labeling is non-existent
Major Nikon
Dec 2015
#30
Unless you won the Nobel Prize for biotechnology, you aren't persuasive here.
closeupready
Dec 2015
#35
I really feel no need to persuade anyone who never made a persuasive argument to begin with
Major Nikon
Dec 2015
#37
How about a label with the amount of pesticide residue as confirmed by an independent lab?
GreatGazoo
Dec 2015
#43