This needs to be answered--Hartford Sentinel No on 37 is a Wrong Decision.
Date: 9/29/2012 2:28:57 PM ( 12 y ) ... viewed 1535 times
This Hartford Sentinel Writer says Prop 37 is Anti farmer. This is Wrong and this article is off based
Ag At Large: GMO ballot issue energizes farmers
Farmers in California and elsewhere generally feel they are appreciated and supported by the rest of us. The November ballot measure on genetically modified organisms (GMO) may prove them right — or wrong.
The measure is undeniably anti-farmer, requiring that food products that incorporate or rely on GMOs must be labeled to indicate that. Sounds innocent enough, but the labeling is an enormous and costly undertaking that probably turns people away from the labeled products. The issue’s backers claim that labeling merely provides information consumers want.
Identifying the backers as vegans and panic-stricken food fadists, the farm community points out that a vast majority of the food products on grocery shelves already include some ingredients or products that incorporate GMOs.
Farmers resent and scientifically refute the vegan position that something about GMOs is inherently unhealthy, detrimental or evil. By contrast, they are proud of the research that has brought GMOs into the plant-breeding and production process, enabling enormous increases in the production of healthy food products. -
September 27, 2012 11:30 am • By Don Curlee
More Erroneous Information from the Sentinel Piece
Accompanying the editor’s comments in the July 21 issue of Western Farm Press is a column by Richard Cornett, communications director of the Western Plant Health Association. He wonders what the public has against the scientific progress represented by GMOs, “especially when it comes to feeding a burgeoning world at affordable prices.”
This Organization is meeting in Carlbad.
They need a showing of Genetic Roulette
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