FDA won’t allow food to be labeled free of genetic modification: report

By Raw Story
Saturday, September 18th, 2010 -- 11:05 pm

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'Extra labeling only confuses the consumer,' biotech spokesman says

That the Food and Drug Administration is opposed to labeling foods that are genetically modified is no surprise anymore, but a report in the Washington Post indicates the FDA won't even allow food producers to label their foods as being free of genetic modification.

In reporting that the FDA will likely not require the labeling of genetically modified salmon if it approves the food product for consumption, the Post's Lyndsey Layton notes that the federal agency "won't let conventional food makers trumpet the fact that their products don't contain genetically modified ingredients."

The agency warned the dairy industry in 1994 that it could not use "Hormone Free" labeling on milk from cows that are not given engineered hormones, because all milk contains some hormones.

It has sent a flurry of enforcement letters to food makers, including B&G Foods, which was told it could not use the phrase "GMO-free" on its Polaner All Fruit strawberry spread label because GMO refers to genetically modified organisms and strawberries are produce, not organisms.
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It told the maker of Spectrum Canola Oil that it could not use a label that included a red circle with a line through it and the words "GMO," saying the symbol suggested that there was something wrong with genetically engineered food.

"This to me raises questions about whose interest the FDA is protecting," House Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) told the Post. Kucinich has repeatedly introduced bills in the House that would require the labeling of genetically modified foods.

David Edwards, director of animal biotechnology at the Biotechnology Industry Organization, told the Post that "extra labeling only confuses the consumer. ... It differentiates products that are not different. As we stick more labels on products that don't really tell us anything more, it makes it harder for consumers to make their choices."

The Post notes that the debate over genetically modified salmon, which will be decided at an FDA advisory panel meeting this week, "comes at a time when Americans seem to want to know more about their food - where it is grown, how it is produced and what it contains."

"The public wants to know and the public has a right to know," New York University nutrition professor Marion Nestle told the Post. "I think the agency has discretion, but it's under enormous political pressure to approve [the salmon] without labeling."

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1Carl Elderton

Heaven forbid our government should have our interests at heart in anything.
2Anonymous

Although I think the FDA has the wrong motivations to ban the labeling, I agree with it. Genetically modified foods aren’t detrimental to health, so why even bother labeling it?
3Eric S

The FDA works for the fascists, always has always will. The FDA colluded with the AMA, the American Cancer Society, and numerous pharmaceutical companies associated with a conglomerate once known as I.G. Farben to get Laetrille taken off the shelves. Reason? It was proven to kill cancer cells, effectively CURING CANCER. This cut into their ability to make money through the horrific treatments that we know of today that do more harm than good. My stepmother died, not from her cancer, but from her treatment. She fought the cancer for YEARS, but it was the treatment that killed her in the end. What was this drug Laetrille made from, you wonder??? Apricot kernels that had ben freeze dried, crushed, and encapsulated. That’s it. Nothing more. Taken OFF the shelves because the FDA said so, but it didn’t stop there. They put doctors in jail for sending their patients to Tijuana to get the medicine, and they didn’t stop there. They even put the lady who answers the phones that their office in jail too. So… WHO’S interests do the FDA serve? Because it most certainly is NOT yours.
4Anonymous

we just need to learn to grow our own..
5Spire

FDA — owned and operated by Monsanto
6Anonymous

not to worry – the franken-salmon company will launch a huge PR blitz with commercials showing their product in beautiful, natural, healthy settings giving the illusion that they’re product is better for you than what nature produces.

- government agencies through the years are constantly being rendered more & more ineffectual (FCC, EPA, FDA, etc,..) They are no more than corporate whores.
7Anonymous

Perhaps Big Agra’s infestation of the FDA population is a precursor to the Frankenfish’s infestation of the salmon population. More on the Frankenfish:

http://thedonkeyedge.com/2010/08/17/frankenfish/
8Anonymous

Free speech? WTF?
9Anonymous

And cigarette smoking is not addictive and does not cause cancer.
10Anonymous

Monsanto is buying up seed companies.
11Anonymous

Because Genetically modified foods ARE detrimental to your health. If you think a genetically modified food is going to give you the same vital nutrients your body needs as a natural food, you are sadly, sadly mistaken.
12RawStory

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13Anonymous

all your food are belong to us…
14Anonymous

Free speech? So, you truthfully label your mom-and-pop farmed produce, but the big boys who own the govt silence you. What about, “I (heart) ADM”? Will the FDA approve that?
15Anonymous

Free speech? So, you truthfully label your mom-and-pop farmed produce, but the big boys who own the govt silence you. What about, “I (heart) ADM”? Will the FDA approve that?
16AgentYM

Save for one idiot (#2, and I know that one HAS to be a paid troll), I’m am really glad to see common sense prevailing here.

Also, try not to let Kucinich get swept up in the inevitable wave of populist anger. He hasn’t been perfect by any means, but he’s already done more for us than about 99% of the Democratic party.
17Anonymous

Fuck the FDA. If they’re going to do this you have to assume ALL salmon not labeled organic is GM. The same for other foods. People need to start moving against this…GM food has been shown to cause organ failure and sterility,
18Anonymous

It does not matter why. Maybe it’s because I hate genetic engineering is why. It is not the companies that doing the modifying that want to label, it is the ones that don’t and have determined that there are a lot of us who will buy their product because they don’t. It is not the FDA’s job to tell a company that they cannot tell me, the consumer, information because the FDA has determined that the information that I want to know is not important information. It is up to me if I want to eat genetically modified food or not and the FDA is hindering my ability to make that choice by prohibiting freedom of speech. Phk Monsanto.
19Anonymous

It depends on the modification, so that’s why we need more terminology in the labeling.
Example, Round Up Ready corn and soy, modified to survive areal spraying of pesticide, is probably not bad for you, but there is an assumption that pesticide was used, and a lot of folks want to know about that.

I genetically modify crops in my garden regularly with swab pollination and technically, that’s GM.

I think using the term “GM” is not enough info for the consumer. It is indeed confusing. I eat GM beans every day, beans that I modified at home by pollinating the plants and selecting the seeds to hold over for next year.

Here’s the thing, there’s a patent that goes along with each of these GM crops. Why can’t the FDA simply require the patent numbers of any patented ingredients? The consumer will get the info they need, and can research on their own.
20Karl Haro von Mogel

This article is misleading. The FDA does not like “GMO Free” as stated in the documents on their website because “free” has a very specific meaning – and that is 0% of the item that it is stated to be “free” of. Even the slightest percentage makes it a misleading label. (That’s why hormone-free is also misleading because there are hormones in meant and milk produced from animals that are not given extra hormones.) They recommend that food companies that do not use genetically engineered foods in their products label the food as being “Non-GMO” or “Produced without the use of genetic engineering”. A subtle but important distinction which is casually overlooked by the author.
21Byron

This is outrageous! It is the height of arrogance and completely, utterly anti-democratic. What gives these #$%!!! the RIGHT to decide for everyone else that a controversial set of ingredients have no right to be labeled because they fear that if people know they wont buy. Kucininch is absolutely right, that’s because Monsanto has bought off the entire FDA. Funny thing is, even former Monsanto CEO, Robert Shapiro said that people should have the right to know:

“One can make a reasonable argument that consumers and citizens have a right to know anything they wish to know. It is they who are choosing these products and it is they who are choosing and judging their governments. So it is almost impossible to make a case that information should be withheld from consumers…. consumers’, in my view [have an] unquestioned, right to know anything they wish to know about the products they consume…. it is not my role, or Monsanto’s role, to decide these things. It is society’s role to decide those questions after appropriate debate” To the question “So you are open to labeling being introduced then?” Shapiro answered: “Yes. Of course”

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Labeling_Issues,_Revolving_Doors,_rBGH,_Bribery_and_Monsanto

When he was campaigning for the presidency Mr Obama promised that GM food would be labled. I wish he would remember that promise and see it through. There are very good reasons to be concerned about GM foods.
22Anonymous

As consumers become more aware of the toxic frankenfoods to be avoided, our beloved Big Pharma and Big Agra owned whores (some still call the FDA) step in right on cue to make discerning the genetically modified cancer causing crap from everything else in the grocery store more difficult if not impossible.

All now part of a pretty obvious pattern, folks, the dots are indeed beginning to connect themselves.

If you haven’t seen “Food Inc.” you can see it in its entirety here (90 minutes plus):

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24626.htm

Please spread this link around, everyone should see it.
23Byron

Genetically modifying crops as practiced by Monsanto is not swab pollination. It is the insertion of foreign genes, those from one species into a completely different species such as would never occur in nature. The Flavr Savr tomato, was engineered to include fish genes in every cell. Aventis is putting human genes into rice. Things like that.

And there is actually a long list of ailments that have been shown to be caused by GM.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Monsanto_and_GM_Foods:_Health_Risks

Note this comment from Top 10 Reasons to Label Genetically Engineered Food
: “Scientists reviewing data from Monsanto’s own studies ‘have proven that genetically engineered foods are neither sufficiently healthy or proper to be commercialized.’”

http://www.organicconsumers.org/monlink.cfm#top10

Most of everything we these days now contain GM ingredients. The only way to avoid GM is to go organic.
24MrEthiopian

The simple solution is too stop buying Salmon of any kind, if we all do this, the corporations will have no choice but to label the tainted fish.

(Sub Plan B) – Go to your local supermarket and purchase a few pounds of Salmon from the fish/ deli section, then continue shopping and leave your two pounds of tainted Salmon in the cereal isle, or stuff it in the beer cooler, this is war and we need to step-it-up a notch if our lackadaisical government or shady company refuses to label a genetically altered product.

This is all about corporations making more money, whilst using us a guinea pigs, hit-em where it hurts, in the wallet.
25Jeffrey K

I know a lady who used to smuggle laetrile from Mexico to clandestine clinics up and down California back in the day. When I met her she was running a health food store but was still a rebel at heart.

No question that the FDA and AMA have a huge conflict of interest in promoting conventional cut/burn/poison cancer therapy, and go after natural cures not in spite of but because of the fact that they are effective, and go the most aggressively after the ones that work the best. The bad blood goes back a long way, at least to the bogus Flexner report that was secretly prepared by the AMA and resulted in the closure of the herbally-based American Eclectic medical schools, along most of those that accepted women, blacks and working people.
26Anonymous

“David Edwards, director of animal biotechnology’”… These are the zombie creeps, the animal torturers and experimenters. The macabre dark side of food supply. The Soylent Green crowd.

Almost everything I buy is organic and meat is scarce in our house for a long time. The only store you can trust is your local Whole Foods.

The filthy products and procedures that pass for food and fertilizer would make the average person cringe. Additives are gradual sterilizers, organ killers and stomach destroyers. The sterilization process also affects human sexual hormones in other ways, leading to gender stress.

Instead of being in science, this man should be in a very special prison for animal torturers and experimenters.

Kudos to anyone exposing this real side of food horror. Forget about fake Michelle from Hell and Mika, the scoliosis patient…. salt and fat IS THE LEAST OF IT. A TOTAL DISTRACTION.
27Anonymous

Bullshit.
28Anonymous

Its now illegal to grow your own in many cases.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/24979774/detail.html
29Anonymous

You’re missing the point about modification. Most GMO modification is the insertion of pesticides INSIDE THE PLANT PRODUCT SO IT GROWS IN THE PLANT. There is NOTHING healthy about this. ALL IT DOES IS IMPROVE THE COMPANY’S PROFITS. THATS ALL.

And then you have the weak, the sick, the cancer patient, the child, the elderly and so on who NEED to know what is in every meal…
30Anonymous

Just lost my sister-in-law a few weeks ago to “complications” of cancer. She was in treatment for almost 3 years. I know they tried to do diet modification, etc. but also went the chemo/radiation route because that was what was available to them through insurance. It is such an unbearable loss. Now my brother is without his 41-year old bride of almost 19 years for the rest of his, hopefully, long life. Starve the corporate beast! Please…..
31Marc Marshall

“The only store you can trust is your local Whole Foods.” I personally wouldn’t trust them, either. Whether the expose of a couple of years ago about their organic produce imported from China was accurate or not, Whole Foods is a big enough chain with enough bureaucracy and shareholder profits to protect that I’m wary of them.

I don’t have one in my area anyway, but at least I know who owns the local Co-op I shop at–me, in small part, along with a bunch of other locals; I know people who work there, and I can show up at board meetings and see clearly who is running the place. Doesn’t make them bullet proof, but at least I know who they’re accountable to, and that there’s only two levels between the guy at the register and the people running the place.
32Anonymous

Michael Taylor, former vice-president of Monsanto, and also once their lawyer, was recently made HEAD OF FOOD SAFETY at the FDA, and Monsanto is primarily a pesticide company!!! Also world leader in bio-tech and worlds largest seed supplier. The FDA requires NO TESTING of GM foods, only that the company says they are safe. Numerous outside studies have shown GM food to be very dangerous. Food allergies skyrocketed when they were introduced in 1996. They are banned in the EU and Japan and most places. And here we can’t even get them labeled, and most people are completely ignorant of their affects. The media are completely silent on this issue- it’s really weird. NPR, The New Yorker, NY Times…. no press. Any mention of opposition is slandered as being “anti-science”. Hamsters become sterile by the third generation when fed GM soy. Demand labelling laws! check this link for REAL information http://www.responsibletechnology.org/GMFree/GMODangers/HealthDangers/index.cfm
33Anonymous

I wonder how much Monsanto had to fork over for this decision
34Chip

Corporate money is so much more important than the freedom to choose and now, even the freedom to know. When was the last law or policy you heard of which increased an American’s personal freedom?
35Steve Lane

Isn’t it a breach of US first amendment rights to prevent a producer from labeling his products to show they don’t contain certain substances or products?
36Anonymous

Love your government.
37Anonymous

No, unless of course they voice their speech in the form of large campaign contributions. That seems to be OK, for some reason. But exercising your free speech right to tel the truth? Forfend!
38Anonymous

Well, there was a certain SCOTUS ruling which gave rich corporations a new freedom to make unlimited campaign contributions (and hell, it wasn’t even limited to Americans!), and gave politicos the freedom to accept them. There was also the freedom of certain politicos from that onerous “honest services” clause in corruption cases. And let’s see, the government is now free to torture, and to surveil and arrest you without reason. The government is (mostly) made of Americans who are enjoying these new rights. I could probably go on and on, but I’m sure you see my point.
39Anonymous

“David Edwards, director of animal biotechnology at the Biotechnology Industry Organization, told the Post that “extra labeling only confuses the consumer. … It differentiates products that are not different.”

Who does this idiot think he is kidding? They’re not different? I can only assume this dipstick is another lobotomized Republican that has his head up somewhere that is blocking the oxygen from getting to his brain.

First of all, let us consumers know whether this is GMO or not. Putting an extra “GMO free” on the label isn’t going to confuse 99% of the people who buy the product. The other 1% can always ask the store personal what it means until they become familiar with it.

Second, it is different in that it is not a natural product. Having modified genes has already shown that health problems have resulted in the GMO corn that Monsanto pushed(see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/12/monsantos-gmo-corn-linked_n_420365.html). Are thousands of people getting sick going to be the case for finding out that the next batch of GMO food is unsafe?

If these companies want to put this food out in the public, the executives, the board of directors and the people involved in making the product should be forced to eat it every day for at least 10 years before it is even considered to be allowed on the market. That way, we’ll see just how well they fare with what they’re trying to push on us. And anyone in the government who wants this approved should have to eat it every day for the rest of their lives. If they get sick as a result, they should have to pay their own medical bills and then we can tell them “we told you so”.

In the mean time, I’ll be writing to the FDA to express my dismay with what they are trying to foist on we the people.
40Anonymous

“The agency warned the dairy industry in 1994 that it could not use “Hormone Free” labeling on milk from cows that are not given engineered hormones, because all milk contains some hormones.”

but, of course, lifesavers can say “fat free” right on the label, as if eating them all the time won’t make you fat.
41Kevin A Maynard

They do and some of their 365 organic products come from China as well.
42Kevin A Maynard

Not every cattle raiser uses hormones. So your statement is false.
43Kevin A Maynard

You obvious have no clue what you’re talking about.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/19/monsanto-gm-corn-causing_n_425195.html
44Anonymous

Ralph Nader would have NEVER allowed this
45pw

EUGENICS VIA FOOD SUPPLY. Scientific dictatorship.
46RichWa

Uh? Freedom of speech? Free Market? Consumer Choice? Competition? Consumer’s rights?

I am confused by the extra labeling — which of the above labels should be ignored by the FDA to ensure I can not make informed decisions on what I put into my body? From what I can tell, all the above!
47Anonymous

While it’s possible that “Franken-Salmon” may be safe – what we’ve seen in recent years are corporate “insiders” being put in key positions of government regulatory agencies, in order to carry out corporate “agendas”. Rushing drugs & products through safety screening processes before determining the actual safety of a drug/product & we’re seeing it again here.

Easy examples are aspartame & Vioxx (look up the history on these two – although most of you here – probably know it already)

Anyone here think a large corporation wouldn’t put the public at risk for a profit?
48Anonymous

Which food corporation lobbyist paid them off?

they can try an explain their ruling 7 times till sunday, but the reality is; this was motivated by the big food agra corps.

are you going to eat that?
49Anonymous

Isn’t it amazing that a product like “cigarettes” can be sold without really telling the public/customers how the original product – tobacco – is manipulated & adulterated with additives.

But yet a company that wants to let us know that their product has not been genetically modified – are stopped from doing so?
50Bobby Melton

I’m all for clean organic food but I also appreciate the science behind it. As stated in this article this is more a problem with the language rather than the label. Farmed Salmon is bad for you anyway and “May contain PCB’s, Chemicals with serious long-term health effects (NRDC) and they don’t put that on the label.
51Anonymous

The Plutocracy has completely captured the FDA. This is only one small result. Know the enemy.
52Charlie McHenry

This is an example of anti-consumer, institutional arrogance. Nothing more, nothing less. To suggest that more data will “confuse” consumers is an insult at best, deliberately disingenuous at worst. Remind the FDA who they work for, don’t tolerate any lack of transparency.
53Anonymous

not only do we deserve to know what is in our food, but we also have the right to know where the food is made and not just the distribution plant. If i want to only buy my groceries from local or even US farmers, i should be able to tell from the label. The big corporations do not want us knowing that information because they use the lowest priced countries. Thank you republicans for treating us like mushrooms.
54Anonymous

This article really shows a serious problem with our “government” (i.e. corporate bullying) – if you find this article as disturbing as I do – sign petitions, send e-mails, send letters, etc,… & let them know what you think.

There’s an old saying in Washington – “you may not be able to make them see the light – but you can sure make them feel the heat!”
55Anonymous

What I hear Karl saying is that because all cows/animals have hormones, naturally occurring ones, the FDA argues it is false to claim the meat is “hormone free”. The issue with GMO free is concerning as by implication if the FDA says one can not say “GMO free” using the same argument, that it is in fact not 100% free of GMOs, because GMOs are so prevalent in our environment/food supply now that it is in fact impossible to produce products which are GMO free.
56Anonymous

If I am a producer and I want my label to say no GMO, than I will and they will have to sue and since they have no legitimate reason to curtail my free speech, they will lose.

Many products say “fill in the blank” Free!
Trans fat Free!, is that insulting to trans fat producers, like there is something wrong with trans fats?
57Anonymous

I hate to refute your post – but the recent SCOTUS decision says that corporate “vote buying” is legal.

Actually Steve you are correct & SCOTUS is wrong – SCOTUS is officially a corporate whore.
58Anonymous

I have no problem with people wanting to sell or buy franken fish if thats what they want it should be their choice .But what assurances do we get that no of these freaks of nature will not get loose and breed in the wild with real fish .Same goes for plants whats to keep the modified crap from cross pollenating a normal plant . or for that matter the pigs that they are screwing with getting loose and breeding with others.We already have a huge problem with wild pigs in rural america their population has exploded .I love pork wild or farm raised dont care ribs are ribs and chops are chops .But i damn sure want to know what im eating. And the way its going now soon no one will be able to know if what they are eating has been cross bred with one of these mutant plants or livestock Seems to me that they are trying to take away a fundemental human right to know what we are putting in our own bodies thay have done this for yrs with drugs and we warned people that one day they would do the same with food and every one got a good old laugh and said you are a paranoid stoner sober up. As much as i enjoy saying I told you so there seems to not be much pleasure in it this time.I just hope some one figures out a way to get around this not being able to tell people whats in their food or where it comes from and that we can keep from contaminating all our food with this crap .
59Anonymous

They tried to ban dairy products that do not come from cows given Bovine Growth Hormone, too. But I see my milk products now able to state, “From cows not given BGH”–so I think this calls for enormous activism and letters to the FDA. I don’t want to eat corn with spider venom genes (apparently 80% of all corn in the US now has GM in it, even when unintended) and I don’t want beef that contains human genes… I guess we’ll all have to go for local, organic, grass fed, etc… and give up on industrial food sources.
60Anonymous

I think you aren’t reading the ingredient label on your “kool aid” either.
61sacxtra

The FDA is a failed agency. They have positioned themselves as the ENEMY of HEALTH.
There’s a lot of things the FDA could do, like going after GMO’d HFCS right off the bat, but instead they want to fuck with people who try to get nutrients from clean sources.
62Anonymous

Roundup is causing “superweeds”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/business/energy-environment/04weed.html

(analgous to the “superbugs” we’re causing by using massive amounts of antibiotics)
63Anonymous

Slightly OT – but our old friend Senator Tom Coburn is at it again.

“Senate Bill on Food Safety Is Stalled”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/health/policy/19food.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1284908422-dNJ8P+fd1eyM/jfwl02ebQ

“Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, refused, saying that the powers granted to the F.D.A. in the bill would have financial costs, and that those costs needed to be offset by spending reductions.

Mr. Coburn also expressed doubts that expanding the authority of the F.D.A. would “result in improved food safety,” said John Hart, his spokesman.”
64Anonymous

Did you know your corn was genetically-modified maize?
65Anonymous

Sort of like “Smoking is hazardous to your health” was too confusing prior to 1964…
66Anonymous

Sort of like “Smoking is hazardous to your health” prior to 1964…
67RawStory

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68Anonymous

Provide the petitions on-line or email addresses or letter addresses!
Otherwise your comments are just your liberal “intellectual sexting”!
69Darlene Dixon

GMO may also in the future or even now contain the latest vaccine. Yummy.
70Chuck White

Boycott salmon until the desired labeling is approved.
71Anonymous

“the search engine is our friend” (the trolls are not)
72Anonymous

So much for the “Free Market.” Looks like those corporate communists are winning again.
73Anonymous

Anyone who does not believe that we are all subjugates of corporate power, can eat whatever they hell corporations decide has the most profit in it. Ask no questions. Expect no answers. Shut up. Pay up.
74Anonymous

This shit’s going to backfire on the corporatists and be a boon to local, organic sellers.
75Anonymous

Signs seen at recent Tea Party Event:

“God Never Mint Selective Breeding!”

“If Evilution Existed It Would Be Necissary To Eliminate Him!”

“Roses Are Satanic!”

And my very favorite:

“If God Had Meant Us To Graft He Wouldn’t Have Made Corruption A Seven Deadly Sin!”
76Anonymous

Bullshit! “extra labeling only confuses the consumer. … It differentiates products that are not different.” The FDA is forcing consumers to consume that which they do not want without their consent, by hiding information the consumer would use to make a choice. This is blatant corruption! People get a choice between GENERIC and BRAND name when they fill a prescription, even though it costs the same when you have insurance. I’m sure drug companies would like to make it impossible for pharmacists to tell the consumer what they get because we know “generics are just as good as brand name drugs.”

This is favoritism for the bio-tech industry, and consumers have a right to know what they eat!
77Anonymous

This is future LAWSUIT PREVENTION.

If people can’t relate their illness to what they ate, because a person doesn’t know what one ate and never had the choice to give consent, a resulting health problem will not be traced to GM frankenfood hidden in the victim’s diet.
78Anonymous

BS, the reason the FDA does not do it’s job is because government has sold out to corporations. If we just get rid of the FDA then we won’t even read stories like these and know what corporations are doing to us. Yes I want smaller government, less defense spending, break up homeland security, end the war on drugs. Republicans and some democrats want big defense, a police state, and small government means no social programs, no rules for the rich. Wake the F&%k up.
79Anonymous

Just shut up and eat it or you will be labeled a potential terrorist and targeted for execution, just as any american citizen now can by Obama’s chicago mob.
80Anonymous

That’s why most of them are banned in the rest of the world, right? ‘Cause they are safe?
81Anonymous

Obama’s FDA is actively trying to kill you. These thugs need to be brought to justice. Imagine, they won’t allow a company to advertise that their food isn’t genetically modified. What a bunch of fascist corporatist schills and criminals. Just amazing….
82Anonymous

Libertarians suffer from the delusion that “free markets” actually exist.

Smaller governments mean bigger corporations. Create a power vacuum and it will be filled.
83Anonymous

More misinformation from the queen of deceit, I see.

It is NOT illegal (from the story) for this guy to “grow his own”, he was in violation of zoning law and was farming (for profit) in a residential zone (or so it would seem). Those zoning laws are on the books to protect the public, and if you want to change the zoning you have recourse (the article notes he can now “farm” on that land after he got it re-zoned).

He was allowed to “grow his own”, but there are logical limits as to what that entails (before you run into potential hazards for your neighbors).

Next you’ll be complaining about how you can’t dump your toilet water out of your apartment window .. how the government is abusing your “freedoms”, never giving thought to what it means to have a safe society to live in.
84Anonymous

The FDA is looking to cover the dishonest, word smithing PRODUCERS at the EXPENSE of informed consent of citizens.

Quite simply, we could set a symbol to put on lables that means “this product is 100% naturally occurring. No human technological intervention was engaged in to cause the otherwise natural process to be modified”. If any company “injects hormones” or “splices genes” to get their “products”, they can not have the “natural process” symbol.

Simple. Effective. Clearly understood in logic and reason. Only someone trying to game the system would argue against it, and only those being deceitful would try to word-smith something like “but but, the hormones we injected were NATURAL!”… the INJECTION is the unnatural act as well as the level of hormones present in the animal, therefore you can not brand the product (Natural). Same with these salmon, same with the corn. Simple.

Stop playing word games and provide solutions. That’s the FDA’s job, but they are now on the payroll for the corporations. — fascism is taking quite the root in America.
85Anonymous

The people in this country have no idea of the power and ruthlessness of industrial agriculture and giant food cartels. The only resistance possible is consumer boycotting of all but local food from well known sources, small organic farms etc.

Democratic presidents such as Carter and congresses have managed a few pushbacks–I recall the water wars with ag in the Central Valley of California years back–but obviously they need massive public pushback for support.
It doesn’t help the cause to claim this is “Obama’s FDA” because all FDAs (like the MMS) have been so under the sway of what they regulate–a process accelerated to the max under Republican administrations. The public needs to give this administration ammunition in the form of real protests to the FDA.
86Eric Schiller

This is a blatant violation of freedom of speech and should be taken to the courts. Whether or not GMO is an issue is up to the people, not burocrats. As usual, the GOP chooses hypocrisy when the lobbyists weigh in.
87Anonymous

Soylent Green 1973

It’s the year 2022…
In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret

Charlton Heston (this proves he’s really an actor) ( Detective Thorn )
Leigh Taylor-Young ( Shirl )
Chuck Connors ( Tab Fielding )
Joseph Cotten ( William R. Simonson )
Brock Peters ( Chief Hatcher )
Edward G. Robinson ( Sol Roth )

Sol:
Why, in my day, you could buy meat anywhere! Eggs they had, real butter! Fresh lettuce in the stores.
Det. Thorn:
I know, Sol, you told me before.

…

[Announcer doing a commercial announcement before Gov. Santini's interview]
Richard: …is brought to you by Soylent red and Soylent yellow, high energy vegetable concentrates, and new, delicious, Soylent green. The miracle food of high-energy plankton gathered from the oceans of the world.

…

[last lines - X'ed out in case you don't want to know]
Det. Thorn:
It’s XxXxXxX. Soylent Green is made out of XxXxXxX. They’re making our food out of XxXxXxX. Next thing they’ll be breeding us like cattle for food. You’ve gotta tell them. You’ve gotta tell them!
Hatcher:
I promise, Tiger. I promise. I’ll tell the exchange.
Det. Thorn:
You tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher. You’ve gotta tell them! Soylent Green is XxXxXxX! We’ve gotta stop them somehow!

>>> it has already been done to the meat supply (feed cattle to cattle) supposedly banned now, seems like we’re already there
88Anonymous

Soylent Green 1973

It’s the year 2022…
In an overpopulated futuristic Earth, a New York police detective finds himself marked for murder by government agents when he gets too close to a bizarre state secret

Charlton Heston (this proves he’s really an actor) ( Detective Thorn )
Leigh Taylor-Young ( Shirl )
Chuck Connors ( Tab Fielding )
Joseph Cotten ( William R. Simonson )
Brock Peters ( Chief Hatcher )
Edward G. Robinson ( Sol Roth )

Sol:
Why, in my day, you could buy meat anywhere! Eggs they had, real butter! Fresh lettuce in the stores.
Det. Thorn:
I know, Sol, you told me before.

…

[Announcer doing a commercial announcement before Gov. Santini's interview]
Richard: …is brought to you by Soylent red and Soylent yellow, high energy vegetable concentrates, and new, delicious, Soylent green. The miracle food of high-energy plankton gathered from the oceans of the world.

…

[last lines - X'ed out in case you don't want to know]
Det. Thorn:
It’s XxXxXxX. Soylent Green is made out of XxXxXxX. They’re making our food out of XxXxXxX. Next thing they’ll be breeding us like cattle for food. You’ve gotta tell them. You’ve gotta tell them!
Hatcher:
I promise, Tiger. I promise. I’ll tell the exchange.
Det. Thorn:
You tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher. You’ve gotta tell them! Soylent Green is XxXxXxX! We’ve gotta stop them somehow!

>>> it has already been done to the meat supply (feed cattle to cattle) supposedly banned now, seems like we’re already there
89Byron

Exactly. Republicans and Libertarians seem to think that if you just get rid of regulations all these greedy mean spirited mega-corporations will immediately do a 180 and become self-policing saints. They will finally become convinced that public health and the environment matter more to them then the bottom line.

NOT!
90Anonymous

“Obama’s FDA” ? WTF are you talking about? If were going to get into “labeling” then it’s Bush’s FDA. 8 years of stacking the agency with agro-business shills. With all the shit going on in this country how can you root out all the “paid insiders”????? So go shove your label up your ass and stop blaming Obama. If you had a ounce of brains you could read a label and not eat the shit the FDA approves.
91Anonymous

“…
“Non-GMO” or “Produced without the use of genetic engineering”. A subtle but important distinction which is casually overlooked by the author.
…”

i don’t think your comparison holds up

so if it’s such a subtle distinction, who is it so important to that the wording be changed … corp laywers?, the pr dept?, the ceo’s?, the advertising dept.?, the grocery stores that sell it?, monsanto?, etc.
92Anonymous

So don’t eat the fish. How hard is that to figure out?

This Is What You Should Be Worried About

http://www.natural-health-information-centre.com/codex-alimentarius.html
93Anonymous

I think I’ll start a company called Genetics Free. They can’t stop me from using the company’s name on the package.
94Anonymous

Here is a report that shows a clear link between GM food and organ failure….

http://www.newslook.com/videos/179678-monsanto-gmos-linked-to-organ-failure
95Anonymous

Truth is NOT allowed in a fascist country.
96World Wide News Flash

FDA won't allow food to be labeled free of genetic modification ……

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98Anonymous

It might confuse the baggers and those so called 25% who have their heads firmly shoved up their asses but not the rest of us.
99Anonymous

the thought did run through my mind also – muddy the water – so nobody knows what their eating.
100Cal

I agree. The bottom line is the only place that corporations will actually pay attention to.
101Anonymous

Of course they can’t stop you from lying about it either.
102Jackie Higgins

We are losing any and all rights to eat how and what we want. If this was good for us why did Obama have to sign a presidential directive in secret for Codex Alimentarius to beset the food standards? Codex doesn’t set safe food standerds Codex allows how much preseritives, contamination and chemicals that can be allowed to the lowest comman denominator, so that all of the food we eat will be poisoned world wide to the same set of rules, no exception as if you don’t follow the codex rules the WTO will sanction and penalize any one who doesn’t follow the WTO rules that was set by guess who ? , the Codex Alimentarius
103Anonymous

I don’t see how extra labelling which allows the consumer to make an informed choice could possibly be described as making it harder for consumers to make those choices.
That is unless you are trying to foist something on the consumer that they would likely reject and you don’t want to give them that option.
104Truth

So much for our “freedom of information”
105Anonymous

This is disgusting! The FDA is SO in the pocket of these disgusting industries that it should be dismantled. It is NOT protecting the people,just the greedy corporations. THROW THE BUMS OUT!!!!
106Robert Run

and anti-free enterprise people support the corporatist myth by failing to recognize that their ergo-propter-hoc argument is rational.

when the corporations control the economy, it is just another form of big govt. control. and when lefties pretend the corporatist controls are not regulations of a different kind, they facilitate the very fascism they claim to be opposed to.

if the left was as smart as it thinks it is, it would organize for a free-enterprise system so we could stop subsidizing corporations to keep prices artificially low, the small farms and businesses could come back, and they could compete on a level playing field and develop a services based economy..

is the left smart enough to get that? NOPE.
107Jackie Higgins

We are losing the right and ability to eat how and what we want.If this”good” for us why did Obama sign a presidential directive in secret (June 10,2010) for Codex Alimentarius to set the food and labelling restrictions and be the only one with the rights to do so? Codex will also have the right to take natural supplements,herbs, vitamins, minerals and the right to seek alternative treatments and make it illegal unless it is a perscription written by a physician. when codex was allowed to set the standards for the European Union there were prosecutions on a woman in France for growing garlic in her garden, the case was being treated as serious as a drug smuggling case and that is only one example of their power, The natural supplements and vitamins dosages were lowerd to standards that were next to useless, had to be perscribed by a physican,and when the perscription was filled was not allowed refills so that she could have taken the amount she wanted it was regestered in a computer base the same as for narcotics then charged 10 times the amount when she paid for it. If a country or nation refused to abide by codex standards then it is sanctionened until compliance and or fined by the WTO until it comforms to the codex standards and guess who wrote the rules for the WTO’s rules and standards? You got it , it was codex.Codex isn’t about setting safe standards it sets the rules of how much presertives, additives, chemicals and contamination that can be allowed in a product before it is put on the market and one of the things thats allowed is animal fecees and insect body parts. The standards are set to the lowest common denominator. Are we going to complacently sit on our asses like cows chewing their cud being unaware that they are going to be slaughtered, and accept our gradual poisoning with having no way to counteract the damage being done to us and the ones we love in the name of corporation greed and maximum profit no matter what the cost to our health and well being, at the least of sins or out right massive depopulation and desease manufactoring so that the world is depopulated by the 80% that the UN has decread that it should be reduced to.? OR we the people can get of our collective asses and start fighting for what is our rights to be allowed to eat and have access to the nutrition, alternative treatments.,and holestic health and healing that we choose to use? Make no mistake this is a war, but if we do what needs to be done it can remain a war of ink and information ,to go to our elected officials to tell them we will not abiide by presedential directives signed in secret nor by rules that are set by corporations whose only thought is for the bottom line and profit margins.That this is something that we need to be informed about and consulted in the light of day and to choose what we will allow to be done to us or for us by our govt’s in open honest policies set by our govt through upfront consultions,honest information that is provided to the people that has NO SECRET AGENDAS or HIDDEN CONSQUENCES so that we are not played for the fools that they already are playing us for. If we were given honest information about things instead of the lies and propaganda that they are feeding us the people could come up with many solutions for the problems that face us and the environment that we currently live in.
108Manny

Does this mean that Monsanto no longer can “protect” themselves from those pesky neighbors that get their crops contaminated.. err.. uh.. blessed by fertilization from the patented GM strains that Monsanto sells?
109Anonymous

What a defunct bureau. IS this the same FDA that allows melamine tainted milk and lead toothpaste? If the public was made aware of how many GMOs are in their food, they would be appalled. But, Americans are slow and don’t like to read anymore. This information is available for those adept at gathering their own knowledge. This is the GMOdus Operandi of the FDA, help the big agribusiness.
110Manny

One more reason to treat every regulatory federal agency as irrelevant. Especially the FDA, USDA, FCC, SEC and DHS.
111Anonymous

I’m saying for the record…I 100% Believe the FDA is EEEEEEEVIL!
112Cameron Parker

Sounds like it’s time to save seed and grow your own.
113Kristin Sherwood

This is pretty ridiculous. Isn’t it a violation of First Amendment rights to tell food producers what they can’t put on their labels?
114Wiburt Churchill

While I see very little abuse (at this time) of GM foods (as my wife is familiar with genetics and modifiers) I do not feel comfortable with the FDA limiting the ability for the American people to make a personal and informed decision on what they feed their family and friends.
115Carrie Cassard Snow

There is a petition at the end to sign
116Anonymous

And besides, the farmer two hundred years ago who bred one cow with another hoping to get an offspring with more strength, milk or meat production was, according to this FDA logic, practicing genetic modification with those organisms. Just like any old-time botanist cross-pollinating flowers to some desired end, or dog breeders of old, GMOs have been with us a long time. It’s just gotten higher tech.
117Steve

“While I see very little abuse (at this time) of GM foods…”
Are you serious? Back in the 1980s we were are geared up to perform studies on GMO, specifically foodstuffs, in the human health risk assessment field. That opportunity was taken away from the public by the whores who reside in Congress. Studies are still necessary so we understand the full impact. Allergic reaction to GMOs HAS BEEN DOCUMENTED. Do your research. Other health anomalies are believed to be associated with GMOs.

If you are unable to let common sense prevail in your life, then stay at home and please do not interact with others. How can the government tell those companies that are producing something in a more natural manner to not be exclusive to those companies that are engineering foods. Its ridiculous, and the ensuing arguments are even more non-sensical.

Mother earth has provided foodstuffs for thousands of years. Why is it that a bunch of egotistical, inbred, psychotic elitists must now tinker with everything natural including medicine, foodstuffs, weather and fuel sources.

Wake up people. Can’t you see what is happening? Do you really need someone to spell it out for you? Follow the money. By the way, who is running the FDA….duh? Never thought of that did ya.

http://www.wearegreen.tv/2010/01/former-monsanto-exec-appointed-to-the-head-of-the-f-d-a/

Here I suggest you do some reading. Here’s a start for those still lost.

http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/09/04/monsanto-and-the-trojan-horse-of-bull-semen/
118Anonymous

Why didn’t the right do any of these things when THEY held the reins?

The right LOVES to complain about the left but they are the true maintainers of the status quo. It’s self admitted, they call themselves “conservative” which means “I like this mess just as it is”.
119Anonymous

“…told it could not use the phrase “GMO-free” on its Polaner All Fruit strawberry spread label because GMO refers to genetically modified organisms and strawberries are produce, not organisms.”

or·gan·ism (ôrg-nzm) n.
1. An individual form of life, such as a plant, animal, bacterium, protist, or fungus; a body made up of organs, organelles, or other parts that work together to carry on the various processes of life.

So, I’m guessing their logic is that anything not consisting of or containing the entire modified organism cannot be labeled as Genetically Modified Organism Free.

“Scientists use an aggressive bacteria known as agrobacterium that guarantees rapid infection.
A gene that is found in fish native to the Arctic Ocean is coupled with this bacteria, and inserted into the strawberry plant cells. The benefit to this is that the strawberry plants now have the ability to resist the cold better than ever before.”

So according to the FDA if strawberries still contain the agrobacterium, they would not be GMO-Free. But if the bacteria were only used to insert the gene into the initial generation, subsequent generations of strawberry plants contain no Genetically Modified Organisms even though they still contain the fish gene.

Weasels. Dishonest Weasels. Then nothing genetically modified has GMO’s past the first generation unless created by direct transfer of tissue (containing the bacteria) from the first generation. This so distorts the publics understanding of the phrase, “genetically modified organisms” that it could qualifiy as DoubleSpeak.
120Jess

Monsanto has more control over food than anyone wants to admit.
121Anonymous

Grow your own food
122Anonymous

Not only food, also politicians and Supreme Court judges.
123Benway for the Nova Police

Is this the same FDA that allows food companies to list on their labels the presence of “natural flavoring” when what their products really contain are insect parts?
124Benway for the Nova Police

The variety of PLANT has been genetically modified. It will ALWAYS be genetically modified. The FDA’s argument, as I see it, is that there is no evidence there is anything harmful about the modification. In their eyes, it would be kind of like saying on the label: “Contains no deadly yeast products.” What annoys me is that these bastards get to put yeast and soy and whey and other fungus and bacteria modified ingredients in their products and still call them “all natural,” while these ingredients cause more pain and illness to migraine sufferers and those with allergies, some of which are deadly, than any genetic modification ever did.
125JennyQ

The FDA is disgusting. I can’t believe how obviously they are on the take. Because most higher ups at the FDA have advanced degrees it makes their abject corruption okay?

I thought Obama was going to change things. One executive order telling them to quit taking their marching orders from lobbyists could change EVERYTHING. Yet this administration does nothing.

I live in Florida and I’m a middle class person. Yet I shop at Whole Foods exclusively because I do not want this crap in my children or elderly parents. I want to give them actual food as God and nature intended. How is this not my right as a citizen? When you start actively limiting information to your citizens — CENSORSHIP — you know things are in a very bad corrupt place. There are so many people against this yet we have no voice. You have let me down Obama. This was an easy fix.

I guess Whole Foods will be the winner in all of this. They DO NOT ALLOW ANY GMO ingredients in any of the products they carry fyi. This is why I make a thirty mile each way trip every week to get my groceries.
126Anonymous

I understand what these companies are doing. My point is GM is the wrong word to use. Folks who want to label with non- GMO need to figure out new terminology. It’s too easy for these companies to show that humans have been genetically modifying food for thousands of years.

I grow 100% organic genetically modified crops in my home veg garden.
The problem is in the terms. They really are confusing.
127Anonymous

Ok, so using your “insertion of pesticides”, the products should be labeled for what has been inserted.
Just labeling things as GMO or non-GMO is not sufficient.
BTW, insertion of pesticides doesn’t even begin to cover what’s being researched.

If someone wants to modify corn by splicing genes from two different corn species in order to increase yield and nutrition, I got no problem with that. If they start splicing in a bacteria (i.e. BT corn) I take issue especially since we know the pollen drifts with the bacteria.
I totally agree with you about disclosure, but people need to know more to make an informed judgment, as is evidenced by your post.
128Candace Weddle

Whether this will make you feel better about the overall issue or not, at least this question can be addressed: I’m not sure about all of the GM animals, but the GM fish do not have the capacity to breed. The farms buy the eggs and raise them, and part of the process is that the fish are sterilized. Even if they were to somehow be released into the general population, there could be no cross-breeding. The other issue, however, would be that sudden release of a large population of competing fish could damage the natural population by competing for resources. So there are problems, but (at least as far as fish are concerned) cross-breeding in the general population is not one of them.
129Anonymous

This is splitting hairs over terms, but it’s important if you want to deal with these big AG companies.
Did you know that a pesticide is anything used to kill pests?
If you spray jets of water on a plant to wash off the bugs, the water is a pesticide. Squash them with your hand, your hand is the pesticide. If you buy organic bug control in an all organic garden store(like, say, orange oil extract), you are buying an organic pesticide.

BT corn ( It think that’s one of those “insertion of pesticides” you mentioned) has bacillus thuringiensis(BT) inserted. BT is used by organic gardeners, so technically, BT corn could be argued as an “organic” crop.

That’s why I call for stating EXACTLY what has been done, not just “GMO.” I want to know what’s in my food and make my own choice.
130Elizabeth Glassburn

We are poisoning ourselves people! We are destroying what farmers have been growing for centuries with their own genetic strands, unique without genetic modification.

Genetically modified food is disgusting, The FDA is making a major mistake allowing the general population to consume it on a regular basis without letting them know that there are foods in the regular supermarket that do not have this malfunction.
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132Byron

Again damixaustex, what you are doing is NOT genetic modification as practiced by biotech companies. Are you inserting foreign genes, those from one unrelated species into another species?

Unfortunately your definition of organic is your own. I think what you’re saying is that you have planted some GM seed are not applying pesticides on your crops, however that alone is not the definition of organic. “Organic” by official definition cannot contain genes that have been genetically modified.

By the way, Roundup Ready crops were designed to withstand large amounts of Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup. Glufosinate is another such herbicide. The crops are modified so as to be able to survive drenching in this weedkiller, while the weeds nearby die. Why did you plant GM seeds? Contrary to advertising, they have not been shown to be better than organic and in many cases are worse. There are a host of negative issues associated with them. Below are two in a series of articles about the company that you might be interested in.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Monsanto_and_the_Campaign_to_Undermine_Organics

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Monsanto_and_the_Roundup_Ready_Controversy#Herbicide_in_Your_Food
133Byron

That last link just goes to a section on the page, here it is from the top.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Monsanto_and_the_Roundup_Ready_Controversy

And the main article.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Monsanto
134JennyQ

Your first link sickens me. Why is it that a private company is allowed to pick and chose who regulates it among its own employees and shareholders? Again, this is absolutely something Obama has control over and he put someone from Monsanto in control of the FDA — which is now heavily acting to favor Monsanto.

Under a more ethical president, the Justic Department would be investigating this situation. As is, it’s heartbreaking. Didn’t Obama pledge transparency? Not this is the opposite.
135Byron

Unfortunately GM foods are only part of the wretched story. Foods also can now contain nanotech ingredients. These are manufactured ingredients that companies are adding to “enhance” the flavor and/or preservability of food. They are extremely small, so small that they cannot be seen without the aid of powerful microscopes. Problem is that it has been shown that these things can easily leave the stomach and migrate throughout the body where they begin to accumulate. Places like the brain. It was the last bozo, George Dumbya Bush, corporate turd that he was, who decided that there was no need to label nanotech products. Last I heard there are more than 800 products (only some are food) that contain them. They are found in other things like sunscreens and clothing as well.

Again, the only way to protect against them in your food is to eat organic. That is until the corporatists decide to sabotage them in some way so as to force us to eat them.
136Anonymous

The FDA will not allow labeling since the Globalists, who are protected by the FDA, want to remove our freedom of choice. AND YOU THOUGHT THE FDA WAS THERE TO PROTECT YOU…HAHAHEHE!
137Anonymous

Are there any real #$$%%%^%^ scientists with real brains and integrity in the FDA, not corrupted by the food industry, that will protect the health of the food eating public. Obviously the FDA does not eat food or else they would allow for the proper labeling to protect the public and not protect unnatural foods produced by the biotech industry that abuses and corrupts the natural foods, forcing people to eat unknown and unlabled foods.
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139VoxMagi

contemptible bullshit from a corrupted agency that serves corporate needs.

we know exactly what gmo means…and we know with perfect clarity that we dont want it!!!
140Anonymous

It is a FACT indisputable that the FDA has conflicting interests with the big pharmaceuticals, and with Monsanto to name another. And that’s only what we know.

Imagine what we don’t know!!!
141Anonymous

HI GUYS, I am italian (i happen to speak english because I self thaught it, modestly) , I believe that we are all embarked in the same boat, here we have aspartame too, toxic vaccines, GMO are increasing, well we don’t have fluoridated water as far as I know, although poisonous amounts of sodium fluoride are suggested for small babies in order (or in new world order, hehehe) to fortify their teeth. But think about it, your water and food supply is poisoned, where is your and our freedom? Is this democracy or something else?
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143Anonymous

The point is, I should have the right to know what I’m buying. According to free market theory, there needs to be free access to all relevant information for the markets to work their invisible hand magic of properly allocating resources. This shows once again that our masters don’t give a rat’s patootie about free markets. That’s a story they tell the kids to keep them quiet. When it might limit their bottom lines, free markets are quickly and quietly showed the way to hell.

I shouldn’t have to prove the stuff’s dangerous in order to find out about it. I just don’t want to give my money to corporations that would do that to plants and animals. Playing God in all sorts of unholy ways. And I should have the right to the information that would allow me to act on that.

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