I don't object to the concept of genetic engineering in food. What I don't trust is these companies who are behind the technology and their inadequate testing of their products, which they then turn around and drop on the public. We then pay the price with our bodies.
Absent knowing how safe the food products they produce really are for my and my family's health and well-being, as a customer I have the right to know whether it was genetically-engineered before I pay for it.
I trust an initiative to have food products labelled as genetically engineered far more than I trust the food, chemical, drug, and agribusiness industries to say their products have been adequately tested and safe. It's in these companies' financial interests to get their products out to the public quickly in order to reap incredible billions of dollars, which is why a great many of them spent a great deal of cash to defeat the initiative in California last year. If their products really aren't a threat, where are the long-term studies and test results to validate that? Frankly if they are as safe as they claim, they should be able to provide the scientific analysis to back it up. It is because this isn't readily available that the public needs a way to know that this unknown is out there in their food supply.
I believe these companies truly fear such a label because 1) it would expose just truly prevalent GMO is in the American food supply, and 2) force the issue into the public about just how their bad their testing is, and how bad their safeguards really are.
It's quite frankly disturbing to see educational institutions and media outlets shilling for these various industries in this country, when other countries require such labelling.
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