consistency: let me choose what I consume.
If i buy the fact that wine is bad then I don't consume it, conversely if it's OK to drink then I may tipple... the fact is I made the choice to consume or not; this based on my own investigation of the pro's and cons.
Fair enough. But why single out the GMO industry, which so far, no study has shown clear and hard evidence of harmful effects? Why not demand food that contains high fructose corn syrup to be labeled? Unlike GMO, high fructose corn syrup has been linked with cancer, diabetes, thyroid issues.
Why not demand food containing refined sugars and carbs to be labeled? Unlike GMO, refined sugars and carbs were also linked with diabetes, cancer, heart disease, dementia and strokes.
Why not demand food containing red meat and carbs to be labeled? Unlike GMO, red meat has been linked with cancer, heart disease and kidney failure.
Why single out one industry? This idea that GMOs somehow bad while everything else is good is absurd. We consume "poisonous" food every day. Highly refined sugars and carbs (pizza, pasta, ice cream) are REALLY BAD FOR YOU and are addictive. It completely screws up your insuline levels, gives you actual highs and is addictive. It DESTROYS YOUR TEETH!!! We as a society are addicted to highly refined sugars and carbs. Don't believe me? Try going cold turkey on sugar and refined carbs and see how long until the cravings and the withdraw kicks in.
So why all the outrage directed just to GMOs? Why not towards food with refined sugars and carbs? Why not be consistent instead of singling out one industry? And that let me remind you, no one has been able to show irrefutable evidence that GMO causes any harm.
I'm no hippy; nor do I even lean leftish... but I do demand transparency when it comes to my choices as a consumer. And more to the point of the the other comment made regarding the many starving people fed by this franckenfood. You can mold crap into any form you want and tell people it's bread... the fact is, it's still crap.
You are saying that out of ignorance on the subject. It is not crap. It is soy, tomatoes, corn, rice and no one has shown any irrefutable proof that those things do any harm. I grew up in Brazil during the 80s, when the northern part of the country was hit by a huge drought. I saw (not on TV or pictures, but in person) people starve to death, in scenes that were not that different than what was going on in Ethiopia about the same time. People were dying of hunger, and in large numbers. It is sight that you can't describe to someone else who has not been there.
Northern Brazil is TODAY suffering from a drought that is even worse than the one that hit the country back in the 1980s. The difference is that this time, no one is starving to death, and GMOs played a HUGE and decisive role on that. It is very cute for someone who might have always been able to drive to a suburban Whole Foods to call GMOs "crap". But for the vast majority of the world population, be it in South America, Asia or Africa, GMOs is what cut down child mortality rates from 200 per 1,000 birth to less than 20 per 1,000 in a generation. That is not crap. That is a technological miracle.
