On Saturday, November 8, 2014 1:02:17 PM UTC-5, Paul M. Cook wrote:
> "notbob" > wrote in message
> ...
> >A proposition 105 failed to pass, by a two thirds vote, in Colorado on
> > Tue. It was a proposition to require GMO labeling on all foods. And
> > it failed!
> >
> > I don't know what to say. I'm aghast. I don't even know what
> > happened. Was it simple cuz the qanti's spent 4X the amt on the
> > campaign? I jes can't imagine that ppl would NOT want to know there
> > might be Franken-foods in their diet.
> >
> > "Uhh... no thanks yer evilship. I don't want to know what's in the
> > food I'm putting into my body"
>
>
> It failed in California too. Massive amounts of corporate cash did it in.
> They had people believing that a mere label was such a burden to the food
> industry that they would have to raise prices dramatically.

Well, give it a few more years. I never thought I'd see any kind of nutritional labeling either, let along no smoking in public haunts. Steps forward are minute, it seems.

When smoking was outlawed in my office, - oh, the hue and cry --but I didn't see one smoker resigning.