Anti-GMO protesters.
This November, Californians will get a chance to vote on Proposition 37 — a “right to know” law that would require GMO (genetically modified organism) labeling on food products so that consumers know what food has been genetically altered.
Whatever your opinion is about genetically modified food, it’s hard to argue that the public doesn’t deserve to know whether or not the products they’re consuming have been genetically altered. But that’s exactly what big pesticide companies are spending millions to argue.
The Yes On 37 campaign just released new numbersAi??totaling the spending by big pesticide companies against the measure:
Monsanto just gave an additional $2.89 million to defeatAi??Proposition 37, which would require labeling of genetically engineered foods in California. Monsantoai??i??s total contribution against Proposition 37 now stands at $7.1 million, according to campaign finance disclosureAi??recordsAi??filed with the California Secretary of State. […]
The ai???Big 6ai??? pesticide firms (Monsanto, DuPont, Bayer, Dow, BASF and Syngenta) have contributed $19 million of the $32 million that the No on 37 campaign has raised.
This is a stunning amount of money being spent to make sure Californians aren’t properly informed about the food they eat. But so far this corporate subterfuge campaign is falling short. Polling released earlier this month shows that 67 percent of Californians back Prop. 37.
Hopefully, Proposition 37 will pass in California no matter how much money pesticide companies and agribusiness spend to prevent it. Knowing which foods are genetically modified allows people choice with what they eat. The absence of labelling means that consumers have no idea whether or not the foods they eat are genetically modified. Since the impact of genetically modified foods on human health has never been researched, it is really important and responsible for people to be able to choose.
It seems we are just a huge experiment but I think the scientists are not running a valid study. Like everything else they’ve all run amok.
Before gmos entered the market place, their own scientists warned that further testing was needed to check for toxicity and allergens among other things. They were overruled. It is not possible to do a true scientific study on gmo seed without having the original seed that was genetically engineered. That is the only way to check to see if any differences in the reaction to the food is because of the genetic engineered seed. Monsanto will not give up any material for outside testing. They think that the study they used for approval of gmos (feeding rats gmo for 90 days without negative results) makes it save for millions of people to consume. Russia and China and the EU all label gmos, why can’t we?
Instead of spending all this money to block labeling in California and the other states that try to enact “let me know what’s in my food” laws, Why don’t these companies pay and independent company to do a long term test on the gmos and show us once and for all that there is no danger to these man made mutations that they have flooded the market with?