Victory! Vermont Passes Landmark GMO Labeling Law

[BrotherIvan]

48. Your argument for costs rising are the same misinformation used to defeat labeling bills

That was used here in California and it is absolutely not true. All food, with the exception of fresh foods are required to have nutritional information. Labeling did not increase the cost of goods one bit. Fruits and vegetables also have labels, whether it's upc codes for scanning or logos of the farm or country of origin. Adding whether something is GMO or non-GMO is a matter of changing the layout. In California, when they started labeling "No rBST" it started with dairies using it as an incentive to buy. They were more than happy to let people know they did not use hormones. I see product labels all the time, often misleading, claiming something is natural or healthy because that is what consumers WANT. And yes, Monsato tried to get rid of the labeling for rBST saying it was "misleading". Because Monsato never wants anyone to know what's in their food.

http://www.non-gmoreport.com/articles/may07/misleading_rBST-free_labeling.php

Read post #11 by alittlelark above. There are links to studies that contradict the industry-funded ones that say GMOs are "safe." Anyone who trusts the wholly corrupted FDA is a fool. You do know that agency has been saturated by Big Ag and Big Pharma people? You do remember when people were up in arms that Obama appointed a former Monsato lobbyist as the Food Safety Czar in a serious betrayal of his campaign promises? These Monsato plants (no pun intended) suppressed all the evidence that shows that GMOs are in fact NOT SAFE.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/youre-appointing-who-plea_b_243810.html

We saw how powerful the push for GMOs were with the leaked documents from the State Department showing how they are in effect lobbying for Monsato and trying to stem the tide of banning in the EU. If that does not show how infected government agencies are with these people, proving how little the FDA seal of approval means.

http://rt.com/usa/wikileaks-monsanto-cables-report-273/

And lastly, this false meme being pushed that "science agrees that GMOs are safe" is just more industry sponsored bullshit. There has never been consensus that GMOs are safe. There still isn't now. Doesn't that set off at least some alarm bells?

http://www.ensser.org/increasing-public-information/no-scientific-consensus-on-gmo-safety/

A quote from the above linked HuffPo article shows that not all scientists agree that GMOs are safe. This is just one of many, many scientists who firmly disagrees.

In January of this year, Dr. P. M. Bhargava, one of the world's top biologists, told me that after reviewing 600 scientific journals, he concluded that the GM foods in the US are largely responsible for the increase in many serious diseases.

Why do we need GMOs at all except for profits? They have been proven to be less drought and disease resistant. They are doused in Round Up--which has its own problems for human health when ingested as it is an endocrine disruptor among other things--which poisons the soil as well. It also creates super weeds that are already resistant to glyphosphates. Wait till there are new diseases that could wipe out an entire crop. By abandoning proper farming practices such as crop diversity and crop rotation in favor of monoculture (which we mostly have already) we are creating a very dangerous situation that could starve the world overnight. All so some company can make obscene profits off of its patented seeds?

Do you truly believe that mega profits for a few companies are worth the risk to human and animal health as well as the threat or our eco-system? If one only gets their information from the so-called "skeptic" sites, which are pushing the same misinformation that GMOs are proven safe and anyone critical of GMOs is a tree-hugging flower child who just wants a pony, then you are missing the whole story by a mile and totally ignoring Science!. There's plenty of evidence that says that GMOs are not safe for human or animal consumption, nor are they safe for the environment. Until it is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, do you think it's worth the risk? Look around, disease is exploding all around us. Don't you think we should put health above profits? Don't you want conclusive, long-term, unbiased studies that show that GMOs have no effect whatsoever? I know I do.