Look Out Monsanto: Campaigns to Label Genetically Engineered Foods Are Heating Up

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1. My thing is...

Proposition 37 wouldn't have actually enlightened you as to what you were getting. Labeling wouldn't have been required to provide any information other than "this has been altered." Even if it had, what sort of information would you expect to get from it?

While I understand the desire to know what you're putting in your mouth, prop 37 wouldn't have done much in that direction. Plus, another bit of trouble is that "genetic engineering" would technically include any food that had a human hand in varietal development. it's an excessively broad term.

A better angle would be turning the battle against the patenting of organisms, genes, and genomes. That's the core of the problem right there, and doing away with that ability would undercut the very problems that the proponents of prop 37 were hoping[;/i] to address.