Yes, because people want to make the informed choice, a rational motivation (Reply #38)

In the discussion thread: Since a lot of people want to label GMO food here is what I propose. [View all]

Thu Dec 10, 2015, 03:56 PM

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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44 replies	Author	Time	Post
Since a lot of people want to label GMO food here is what I propose. [View all]	Eko	Dec 2015	OP
Maybe you didn't notice. Your list is of toxic bacteria.	Mika	Dec 2015	#1
Since the bacteria comes from fertilzer for the most part	Eko	Dec 2015	#2
Use of Roundup has dramaticalliy increased since resistant GMO plants introduced n/t	eridani	Dec 2015	#3
Funny,	Eko	Dec 2015	#4
hmm...	killbotfactory	Dec 2015	#6
Whatever,	Eko	Dec 2015	#9
The link you posted in the OP doesn't say if anything was GMO or not	killbotfactory	Dec 2015	#11
Show me a food where it killed someone	Eko	Dec 2015	#13
Don't you even -suspect- that gmo and non-gmo foods share some risks?	HereSince1628	Dec 2015	#29
because it was GMO	AlbertCat	Dec 2015	#40
And since we dont have GMO meat we can immediately discount half then.	Eko	Dec 2015	#24
Wrong	eridani	Dec 2015	#8
"superweeds" and hard-to-kill insects	Ghost Dog	Dec 2015	#21
Any pesticide creates that,	Eko	Dec 2015	#22
Not only.	Ghost Dog	Dec 2015	#32
But whatever, lets get back to the point.	Eko	Dec 2015	#5
Im even good with	Eko	Dec 2015	#7
improper handling of anything causes foodbourne illness.	killbotfactory	Dec 2015	#10
Whatever,	Eko	Dec 2015	#12
I don't think GMO is dangerous in that way.	killbotfactory	Dec 2015	#15
Cool,	Eko	Dec 2015	#17
Let's just label everything with "can kill you" while we are at it. nt	killbotfactory	Dec 2015	#19
Seeing as how there have been no reported deaths from GMO's	Eko	Dec 2015	#20
I can show actual deaths from non GMO food	Eko	Dec 2015	#14
I'm with Tulsi	nationalize the fed	Dec 2015	#16
Refer to post 14.	Eko	Dec 2015	#18
I'll go with a scientist	nationalize the fed	Dec 2015	#25
So, not a single instance of GMO's killing someone	Eko	Dec 2015	#23
Countries that require GMO's be labeled. Backward countries all...	MattSh	Dec 2015	#26
That's because they are all anti-science stupid stupidheads.	GoneFishin	Dec 2015	#27
Lower grade school logic	Person 2713	Dec 2015	#28
It doesn't seem to matter to many that the science based argument for labeling is non-existent	Major Nikon	Dec 2015	#30
Your statements do not logically 'add up'.	Ghost Dog	Dec 2015	#33
Perhaps, but you certainly haven't made a case for that	Major Nikon	Dec 2015	#36
Yes, because people want to make the informed choice, a rational motivation	Ghost Dog	Dec 2015	#38
The FDA doesn't regulate the food and drug supply based on political want	Major Nikon	Dec 2015	#41
Good, then, I agree.	Ghost Dog	Dec 2015	#42
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
Oh FFS...	Javaman	Dec 2015	#31
I understand that the TPP has a section in it that will allow	jwirr	Dec 2015	#34
Fine with me. Label both and let the people decide what they wish to buy.	EndElectoral	Dec 2015	#39
How about a label with the amount of pesticide residue as confirmed by an independent lab?	GreatGazoo	Dec 2015	#43
Why is agribusiness afraid of labeling such benevolent food?	Tierra_y_Libertad	Dec 2015	#44

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