If GMOs Are So Great, Then Label Them.

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174. YOU and the GMO people have to prove that our fears are "irrational"...

There are a lot of rationalizations that have been made that don't make us "irrational" when we distrust the sources and the money behind that propaganda designed to give them more profits at our expense.

As this topic notes, if GMO really are good for us, then these companies should be PROUD to label their products as such, and then use good salesmanship to put that in their ads to sell how good it is for us. They can't, and they know it!

Real sugar is digested in a way that tells me when I've had too much sugar. HFCS doesn't, which is why we continue to eat more, amongst other things, that leads more to obesity, than those who consume more glucose oriented sugars that help the body know when its had too many calories that HFCS doesn't. I've read articles noting that though diet drink sweeteners don't have as many calories themselves, they have the same problem, so that even if we're drinking diet drinks, we tend to eat more of other foods and aren't really controlling our overall caloric content then.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2013/01/01/how-corn-syrup-might-be-making-us-hungry-and-fat/

Also, incidence of type 2 diabetes started it's upward climb in the 1970's when industry switched from using natural sugar to HFCS. There have been scientific studies linking HFCS to type 2 diabetes. Thankfully, just because many of us are being called "irrational" by industry lobbyists, at least industry must label products containing HFCS so that we can avoid them when possible.

http://www.indiana.edu/~oso/Fructose/Fructose.html