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In reply to the discussion: "Genetically engineered products are an abomination of God's creation" [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)As a matter of fact, I do plant heritage varietals of plants in my garden, although I wouldn't refer to them as paleolithic. Most are have only been under cultivation for a hundred or more years.
But let's get to the heart of it. You simply can't stand that people disagree with your stances on GM, and don't care WHY they don't. You feel that they should only base their decisions on the things that are important to you, not what's important to them.
Hell, if I didn't want to ever eat foods whose names (in english) began with the letter R, that would be perfectly legitimate, no matter what my reasoning. People who are vegan, vegetarian, only eat Kosher or Halal... They would be 'illegitimate' food consumers in your eyes, because the reasons on which they based their decisions of what to eat are not the same reasons you want to proclaim they should be happy to eat whatever foods you think they should be willing to eat, and that there really is no real reason to label foods to prevent them from eating anything they don't want to.
I'm not trying to force you to eat the foods I want to eat, so why do you so fervently wish to make it impossible for me to choose the foods I want to eat for myself? I don't even ask for bans on GM, just labeling so I can make my own free market choices. People who oppose labeling are simply anti-free market. They don't want consumers to have the options to choose, but want to protect megacorporations' rights to get rich marketing GM seed and the pesticides that go along with them.