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In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]Aerows
(39,961 posts)I said "So be it." If you aren't making royalties or own patent rights, great. I'm all for it.
If you wish to profit off of controlling the world's food supply, no.
Those that fear labeling fear that the average consumer will figure out how their dinner arrives in the supermarket. It is the same people that fought against "cage free" egg labeling, "hormone free milk" labeling and labeling that tells you whether what you are purchasing contributes to your local economy or if it is just contributing to some big corporation that doesn't care how or who the business practices it uses impacts its workers or the world.
I want to know if I am buying things that enrich Monsanto - because I wish that company would hurry up and fold for some of the horrible things they have done. I want to know that there are eggs in my supermarket that were grown right down the road by farmers that take good care of their chickens. I want to know that the vegetables I get are grown and that the people who grow and pick them are being paid a fair wage.
I refuse to apologize for doing the best I can to contribute to the small dairy farmer's livelihood, the local farmer, and everyone that shuns those that strive to artificially constrict and relax the food supply to benefit themselves.