Pyhrric victory by Monsanto et al with I-522?

[eridani]

http://www.nationofchange.org/did-anti-gmo-movement-really-lose-washington-1384441864

But just as in California, Big Food and Big Biotech privately acknowledged that I-522 was a hollow victory, another expensive, brand-damaging battle in a fruitless war against consumer choice, a war they will inevitably lose.

After spending $70 million in California and Washington, reaping tons of bad publicity in the process, large food corporations and biotech companies understand the enormous risk of fighting high-visibility battles defending a technology, genetically engineered food, that 40 percent of the population believes is unsafe, with another 40 percent remains unsure.

The biotech and junk food lobbies also understand that public concern and anger are very likely to increase in 2014, given that a new generation of evermore hazardous and outrageous Frankenfoods and crops, including GE salmon, apples and Agent Orange (2,4 D or dicamba-resistant) corn, are about to be approved by the Obama administration. This is why the GMA blatantly broke the law in Washington, trying to conceal $12 million in campaign donations from some of the world’s largest and most profitable junk food companies, including Coke, Pepsi, Nestlé, General Mills and Kellogg’s.

And this is why the food giants and biotech bullies—Monsanto, Syngenta, Dow, BASF, Syngenta, and Bayer—are now secretly lobbying the federal government to take away states’ rights to pass mandatory labels on GMO food.

[gopiscrap]

1. assholes let them spend that money

it's less they can spend on close races with teaparty fucknuts tec

[tavalon]

2. Good, now we need to get it on the ballot again

Granted, not exactly the same but it needs to just keep getting hammered at. Here's an angle that might work, "If GMOs are safe, why not label them so the customer knows how lucky she is to be getting a GMO!" I actually don't have a clue whether GMOs are safe. I suspect they aren't, at least some of them (agent Orange resistant? For the food that comes from Vietnam?), but all I really want is labeling. Then, not only me, but every consumer can decide for themselves.

[pscot]

4. depends on how you define 'safe'

If the stuff is edible but environmentally damaging, we're making a Devil's bargain that ultimately leaves us holding the short end of the stick.

[tavalon]

5. You're talking to an ally here.

I think we used technology well before we knew long term effects. Big corporations seeing big profits have trouble holding out to make sure it's safe.

And it's already proving to be environmentally damaging. It's beginning to feel like a horse race these days, a race to the end. Will it be global climate change or crops that destroy our ability to feed ourselves. Or....

[Generic Other]

3. On the ballot again and again

Agent Orange corn? Are you kidding me???

[LeftOfWest]

6. I loathe Monsanto

agent orange directly impacted my family just like it did many many others. Too many.

Those ads made me sick. Nonstop and everywhere.

"Food giants and biotech bullies"...yes, they nailed it there.

This part made me feel better:

"But what is perhaps most threatening to the national $800-billion food and factory farm industry is the fact that the organic and natural health movement appears to be growing not only more popular, but also more radical. A majority of today’s organic and local food activists, supported by the powerful natural health movement, are no longer just mobilizing to label or ban GMOs. They are also speaking out against industrial food and farming practices in general—pesticides, animal drugs, junk foods, antibiotics, growth promoters, climate disrupting nitrate fertilizer, and inhumane, polluting and disease-ridden factory farms. They are speaking out against the destructive practices of Big Pharma, which increasingly works hand-in-hand with Big Biotech and Big Food to supply the dangerous drugs, vaccines and growth promoters that make factory farming and genetic engineering profitable."


Thank you for these very good links/articles/information in these forums eridani.