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Tiny Vermont Brings Food Industry To Its Knees On GMO Labels (ap.org)
schwit1 writes: General Mills' announcement on Friday that it will start labeling products that contain genetically modified ingredients to comply with a Vermont law shows food companies might be throwing in the towel, even as they hold out hope Congress will find a national solution. Tiny Vermont is the first state to require such labeling, effective July 1. Its fellow New England states of Maine and Connecticut have passed laws that require such labeling if other nearby states put one into effect. The U.S. Senate voted 48-49 Wednesday against a bill that would have blocked such state laws. The food industry is holding out hope that Congress will prevent states from requiring such labeling. Some companies say they plan to follow Vermont's law, while others are considering pulling their products from the small state.
We've been genetically modifying food for centuries.
anything that has corn, wheat, barley etc etc has been genetically modified by ancient ancestors.
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
The history of the 20th century finds plenty of reasons those words were poisoned, and it has nothing to do with media bias. It has everything to do with the depraved hearts of socialists and the utterly ruthless way they went about implementing socialism. I think you really don't know your own history. You need to hit the books. For the short version, one picture is worth a thousand words.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
We have monocultures without GMO. No GMO intellectual property rights have ever caused any farmer any problems, anywhere.
If you fall for FUD, you're a willfully ignorant savage, and you deserve food poisoning from your precious non-GMO vegetables.
Too bad you can't handle freedom
Too bad you can't handle freedom of manufacturers to choose what they want to display.
For the same reason that people find it a bad idea to self-identify as "liberal" or "socialist". Reactionary types have poisoned the word in the popular vernacular.
I think you mean the regressive left has done a good job of poisoning the word in the popular vernacular. "Reactionary types" didn't even need to they didn't even need to try. The left has done it all on it's own by not controlling the batshit insane element in their midst and in many cases ignoring it or supporting it. The last 6 years have been a fine testament to that. Everything from whining about how "air conditioning is sexist" to whining that any form of disagreement/differing opinion is racist/sexist/homophobic. To making bullshit up to try and paint and tar xyz groups of people as xyz "all types of evil", and the media running with it because it generated views. Then when found out to be fake, ignoring it, or supporting fake hatecrime/assaults/rapes and then circling the wagons while saying "but it was just to start a conversation" as an excuse.
Om, nomnomnom...
I needn't hit books to see that. I need to open my window.
You should try installing glass window panes instead of opaque ones. Being able to see outside without having to open the window is a real boon.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
Now that's cute. But you're not really trying to pretend that the Nazis were a left wing movement, do you? I mean ... even you can't have your view distorted that badly and know that little about history.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Reactionary types have poisoned the word in the popular vernacular.
I'm sure there was a similar discussion when people first started objecting to Uranium in drinking water, when Uranium was first discovered. It was hailed as having many health benefits by those selling it. Now it's considered assanine, as will eventually be the case with GMO.
What like the USA? Oh wait that probably the country that has experienced it the least.
The horror of when you get sick, being able to know you can afford to go to the hospital. If you loose your job knowing you won't be on the street.
Sounds horrendous, Socialism is only a dirty word in the USA because of some nation wide brain washing left over from the cold war. Sure supporting everybody no matter how little they do is not a good thing, and people should rewarded for their hard work. It is not an all or nothing proposition you can have a balance.