Dr. Oz Responds to Anti-Labeling GMO Critics: Label Our Food! We Won't Be Silenced!

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197. Seedless watermelons

Seedless watermelons are created by dousing a "normal" watermelon with a chemical that causes the plant to have 4 copies of its genes instead of the normal 2. Then the 4-copy plant is bred with a 2-copy plant. The resulting 3-copy plant can't do meiosis, and so can't produce seeds.

You claim that does not require a "GMO" label. Because the rules you support not only do not require a GMO label on that, those rules also allow you to put a "100% organic" and "all-natural" label on that.

Red grapefruit? Created by hitting "normal" grapefruit seeds with radiation, and then picking among the resulting mutations.

You claim that does not require a "GMO" label. Instead, it can have a "100% organic" and "all-natural" label.

Humans turned this:

Into the yellow fruit we call a banana. No "GMO" label required, "100% organic" and "all-natural" labels allowed.

The reason to not slap a "GMO" label on stuff is because it is meaningless. Every single plant we grow is genetically modified. What you want to do is slap a label on the most precise and least-likely to cause harm method of modifying plant genomes. It's also the only technique that actually requires testing the resulting food. You want to label that as dangerous, and bombarding plants with gamma rays and selling the result without any testing as safe.