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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk
Maybe it was due to the additional cost of regulating the labeling (estimated at a hundred grand to a million)? To quote you:
I'm teasing you, Rupert, and I am sorry for CA that the prop was defeated. I didn't know much about it, and I read the SF Chronicle piece saying it was too broadly worded, but after looking into the prop more thoroughly I don't see what they were concerned about. It has some pretty broad exceptions, and as ready-to-eat food is excluded, I don't see how small stores would be affected, since it would be the responsibility of the food producer (Big Ag, in most cases) to label the food before it hit shelves, right?
I haven't been persuaded that GMOs are bad for a person, but I think people have the right to as much information about what they buy as possible, so I wish it had been passed. I really like the requirement here in NYC that stores selling ready-to-eat foods now post the calorie counts. It's really affected how I order food when I eat out.
Here's the full text of prop 37, if anyone wants to see it:
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.ph...(November_2012) |
As you said, I think we have the right to know whether the food we are buying has been genetically modified, especially considering that there is some evidence out there that genetically modified food may cause cancer.
"Rats fed a lifelong diet of one of the bestselling strains of genetically modified corn suffered tumors and multiple organ damage, according to a controversial French study published today."
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...#ixzz2Beakf0Dj
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