On 2014-11-08 4:56 PM, Jeßus wrote:

>>> Mostly the reasons that something like a GMO labeling measure fails a
>>>
>>> 1. People know it will increase the cost of the food they buy.
>>
>> How exactly will slapping a GMO label on the food increase the cost of
>> food?
>
> It won't of course. But putting the fear out there of higher prices
> always does the trick.

That was one of the arguments against going metric. You know that no
packaging machines are made to be adjusted or calibrated and that they
are never replaced with newer and more efficient models.

>> Most of the people are ignorant about some of the details. Farmers used
>> to be able to buy their seed, harvest it and keep a portion for the seed
>> for the next year's crop. GMOs won't let you do that. There is concern
>> about them contaminating other crops and farmers being on the hook for
>> patent fees. Look at the case of Monsanto vs.Schmeiser where a farmer's
>> field was accidentally contaminated and Monsanto sued.
>
> Yeah... 'accidentally'. I know going back several years ago, there was
> a spate of non-GMO crops 'accidentally' contaminated with GMO seed.
> Even more remarkable was the apparent psychic ability of Monsanto to
> locate such crops and get court orders to have them tested. It was
> just a ploy to drive out those farmers resisting the change to GMO
> crops and maintaining their own seed, of course.

Well.... there are limited sources for seed and farmers have a unique
way of finding out everybody's business. If you know any farmers you
would know that they know just about everything about what all the other
local farmers are growing. They also know what kind of farm tractor
equipment everyone around them has.

I used to deal with a lot of farmers on the job, and once acted to stop
the growing practice of them using old highway trailers to haul their
crops around. Screw the rules about lights, brakes and tires, no one
will charge a farmer. I wanted to put an end to that attitude. I
charged a farmer at one end of our district on afternoon. The next
morning I was dealing with a farmer more than 20 miles from there and he
told me about the other incident, not realizing that I was the one who
had done it. Believe me, news travels fast in the farm business.




>> Sure... a note on the packaging acknowledging that it is GMO.... that's
>> got to cost at least $5 per package.
>
>


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