Should genetically engineered foods be labeled?

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The campaign to pass Proposition 37 -- the genetically engineered food labeling initiative -- is locked in a tight fight with its agribusiness and food manufacturing opponents.
Columnist David Lazarus talks about Proposition 37 with reporter Marc Lifsher, Ken Cook, executive director of the Environmental Working Group, which is supporting the Yes on 37 campaign, and No on 37 spokeswoman Kathy Fairbanks.

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[MrInteresting07]

Messing with the genetics of a natural plant? NONE of the plants you eat is natural in the first place. Domesticated species are artificially influenced species. Their average genome is modified from the start. Cabbage is a domesticated cauliflower, corn is a domesticated grain, and the milk you drink is from domesticated dairy cows. Humans have been playing God for thousands of years!

[CIBOYPRODUCT]

PLEASE ENJOY=THE STORY MONSANTO

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MONSANTO= was a pioneer in applying the biotechnology industry business model, developed by Genentech and other biotech drug companies in the late 1970s in California,[7] to agriculture. In this business model, companies invest heavily in research and develop and recoup the expenses through the use and enforcement of biological patents.] Monsanto's application of this model to agriculture, along with a growing movement to create a global, uniform system of plant breeders' rights in the 1980s

[CIBOYPRODUCT]

came into direct conflict with customary practices of farmers to save, reuse, share and develop plant varieties.[12] Its seed patenting model has also been criticized as biopiracy and a threat to biodiversity.[13][14][15] Monsanto's role in these changes in agriculture (which include its litigation and its seed commercialization practices[16]), its current and former agbiotech products, its lobbying of government agencies, and its history as a chemical company, have made Monsanto controversial.

[SaturatedFatsLover]

Of course!! Vote YES!!

[applemorgan]

Scientist agree that in order to keep your job you have to find in favor of Monsatan. newspaper owners agree you have to support PepsiCo & Coke on the NO vote on prop 37 if you want to keep your ad revenues. GMO labels would result in lost sales, lost ad dollars and lost scientist jobs.

[Michael Wittmann]

So the editorial board of the L.A. Times said that prop 37 is sloppily written, which probably means they are against it, and the L.A. Times is also one of the organizations that claims to have done polling. I suspect the L.A. Times lied about the poll result because they're in bed with food industry and because it's controlled by jews just like all other mainstream media and Monsanto. This guy in the video looks like a jew.

[acetonile]

I don't think you understand what I said in the last comment. I am not disagreeing with you. I just said that Prop 37 does not distinguish between genetically modified plants with health benefits and genetically modified plants that may pose a health risk.

I am a scientist and routine read the types of studies to which you refer. I am not sure why you are suggesting I should inform myself when I am one of the people writing these studies...

[anni01060]

if you start to mess with genetics of a natural plant, you create mutant plants: doesnt look very healthy to me.

Maybe you dont believe me (which i perfectly understand), but then atleast inform yourself about studies on GMO's. The only studies that say that GMO's are unharmfull, are the ones carried out by Monsanto, that says enough.

[acetonile]

I would be careful about using blanket statements to characterize anyone. I do not disagree with you that pesticides can be harmful. However, most genetic modifications do very simple things like making plants produce larger seeds or have smaller stalks for better crop production efficiency. Prop 37 would not have distinguished between genetic modifications with the potential for harm and modifications that actually help reduce agriculture's environmental impact and provide health benefits.