Pete C. wrote in rec.food.cooking:

>
> Gary wrote:
> >
> > Christopher Helms wrote:
> > >
> > > I suspect a lot of people wouldn't have voted the way they did if
> > > they had realized what they were actually voting for.
> >
> > Good grief~ So are you saying that those that didn't vote your way
> > are all idiots? Sure sounds like it. You must be a liberal Dem.
>
> It seems so. They're having the same angst at the voters rejection of
> other "progressive" ideals, the "but but, we're smarter than they are,
> how dare they not do what we say" mentality. Pretty sad.
>
> 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.
>
> 2. Most people are not paranoid about GMOs unlike the small minority
> that pushes for such laws.
>
> Additionally in a "natural" state like CO, the people who do care
> about avoiding GMOs already grow their own food or get it from a
> local grower and know what to avoid in the stores so they see no need
> to increase the costs on the things they do buy.

Yup. Works outside the area too. Not everyone is paranoid about GMO.

We all have enough things to worry about. If someone wants to eat GMO
free and have the money for it, then they should do it. They should
not tell the rest of us to be paranoid and eat the same.

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