You remember that big anti-organic food study last week? Guess who funded it.

[cyborg_jim]

94. But this is the point: your opinion does not trump science

"Anyone who believes that consuming GE food and ingesting insecticides is better than eating food without all these things, is simply wrong imho."

And in my opinion there is nothing inherent about chemicals that kill insects or food stuffs with genetic sequences not produced by natural selection that inherently makes them worse for people. That they may do is neither here nor there - these things being used as boogey men to imply by their absence that "organic" is better is absolutely no better than any number of the ways in which either inadequate or misleading labelling is used.

"The fact that there has been such resistance to this simple right the people should have, tells me they are fearful that the public will not want to eat their products. "

If the experience in the UK is any indication it'll probably be more to do with things such as "low fat" items (organic or not) usually having massive amounts of sugar (sugar isn't a fat after all) and misleading things like this which are their real concern. Ignorant consumers give them power.

However it does not work to compound one ignorance with another and that is where my essential problem with the organic food movement lies - it rests on an unsound assumption that is more to do with ideology than whether or not it achieves its aims.