Look under the hood of every movement to forestall the use of genetically-modified grains and you’ll find a preponderance of folks in the organic food industry. They are celebrating today the passage of a law in Vermont making it the first state to require the labeling of foods made with genetically-modified organisms (GMOs), and they’re pretending this law will actually protect people.
There are those who insist on a 100 percent GMO free diet, referred to proudly as “zero tolerance.” One supposes this is their right, but they can’t very well impose their views on others. So why, one must ask, are organic activists trying so hard to get GMOs labelled or banned if they pose no threat to organic farms, or to anyone or anything else?
It’s precisely because GMOs pose no threat that activists have embarked upon a nationwide campaign to discredit this new, perfectly safe field of science. This is the real reason why GMOs pose a “threat” in the eyes of anti-GMO organic activists; they could one day replace organics in the hearts of the American public.
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Once a patchwork of GMO-labeling laws such as Vermont’s is achieved, even in just a handful of states, food manufacturers will find themselves forced to label all of their products with a GMO label because it will be too costly to label food for states that have mandatory labeling, but not for the majority of states that don’t. The tail will wag the dog.
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