6 thoughts on “GMO quiz: Which sugar is conventional, organic or ‘toxic’ GMO?”

  1. none of these match with the table sugar as it has been changed to sugar free, zero calories, or in simple word Aspartame

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    • Shiriram, I’m not sure if you are serious or not, so I apologize for the correction if your comment was a joke, but aspartame is a dipeptide. In being a dipeptide, you would not see the carbon rings, and it would contain nitrogen with amino group chains. What you are seeing on the slide is indeed sugar as in a disaccharide.

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  2. Kevin nails it again! In Colorado, the weird labeling bill would have INCLUDED sugar (which, he clearly points out, has no GE material in it after processing the GE sugar beets). Paranoia and ignorance.

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  3. Yes, how would Vermont prove if non-GMO papers for sugar had been falsified or not? If i were a defense lawyer for a supplier accused of selling GMO derived sugar as non-GMO derived, the first thing i’d ask for is for the state to provide their product testing data showing as much.

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  4. While I agree with the sentiment of this, its not sufficient to make an argument against GM-labelling. You could use the same point against the labelling of Fairtrade sugar – while the actual product is indistinguishable, the process by which it is made may have an impact on consumer choices. If it were true that GM sugar beet were more harmful to the environment or the people growing them than conventional or organic beets, then labelling would be very well justified – even if you couldn’t tell the products apart. As many of the proponents of labelling claim that this is the case, Kevin’s point risks turning into a straw-man argument, if those other assumptions are not addressed alongside it.

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