"Genetically engineered products are an abomination of God's creation"

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

23. Why do I what? Want labels?

So that I personally can avoid being a guinea pig for foods I consider insufficiently tested.

I'm pro-science too. That's why 5 of my 6 college degrees are in the sciences. It's why I have a few articles in peer-reviewed journals, back before I went into computers.

And I've learned enough about the human body to know we don't know enough yet to fully understand the possible results of what GMO may yet be, because we don't know every mechanism of action in the body, every metabolic pathway, every little kink of how even folding can change protein expression.

So because I'm pro-science, I want more studies to be done. I don't just throw up my hands and say 'Everything is safe! We've done all the studies we need to do! A decade of studies have 'proven' all is well!'

And heck, I'm not even asking for GM foods to be labeled. I'll be happy just with the ability of people to simply label GM-free foods GM-free, and let the free market decides whose foods are bought, and whose aren't.