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In reply to the discussion: The anti-GMO movement is nothing but a pseudoscientific scam. [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)The notion behind a market is that you exchange goods, with both of you getting a known quantity (unless you've specifically asked for a 'mystery box' or somesuch), and you can get sued if what you exchange is not what the buyer thought they were getting. If my decision to buy is because the item is purple, and you give me a box containing a yellow one, I can complain, take you to court, whatever. How I came to my like of purple is irrelevant. If it's ill-informed or not, it's still mine. If I like 'ASUS' more than Dell, again, based on an 'ill-informed' opinion, again, I have the right to know that the part I'm getting for my computer actually IS an ASUS and not a Dell.
Lots of consumers want to know, based upon their own 'ill-informed' decisions, and the reason GMO producers don't want labels is not some high and noble reason - it's to prevent profit loss from consumers choosing not to buy their product. Do you believe every industry should be able to simply prevent consumers from knowing what's in their products, or just agribusiness? Should corporations simply get to say 'Here it is, buy it!', or should the consumer maybe get to know if the product has air conditioning, brakes, seatbelts, power steering, whatever?