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In reply to the discussion: GMOs are as good as vaccines. [View all]OrwellwasRight
(5,317 posts)You threaten not to respond, and then you respond anyway. I so wish you would follow through on your argument, as it would save me from pointing out that your main rhetorical tool is ad hominem, a throughly discredited technique.
You have also refused to identify any "crazy bullshit" because there was none. You have also labeled discussions of the WTO COOL labeling controversy and a discussion of how a bill becomes a law "redundant," without pointing out where exactly those same arguments were made before.
You clearly do not know the first rule of logical discourse as ad hominem is not it. But thanks for telling me you have spelled it out for me -- when in fact you have not. Please give me the number of the post in which you explained to me logical discourse. Oh and please give me the number of the post in which I called you a "Monsanto shill." Or indeed any kind of "shill." I simply said they don't run our country and don't get to make our rules.
Finally, Here is your argument from Post 20: "Since there is no safety issue, what is the compelling reason to require GMO labels?"
You imply here that safety is the only issue. I have provided numerous other reasons to label ingredients, particularly for COOL labels and dolphin safe labels, which you purported to support. COOL land dolphin labels are for consumer preference. And so would GMO labels be. If you don't find that compelling, too bad. Compelling isn't the standard. This isn't a federal case about abortion rights, in which the standard is "compelling." This is a democratic choice of citizens -- see my last post if you forgot how that works -- the standard need not be compelling. And it is a straw man to make it so. You'll need some new TPs because your current ones aren't all that convincing.