Anyone else sick of GM Food & lack of labelling
Mar 12th 2013, 2:05 pm
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Mar 12th 2013, 5:17 pm
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Re: Anyone else sick of GM Food & lack of labelling
Organic, or not, and genetically modified, or not, are two different things. It's quite possible to grow genetically modified crops organically. In fact, as another poster has pointed out, one of the objectives of genetically modifying crops is so that they can be more easily and safely - yes, and more economically - grown organically.
If everyone could get the particular information that they are interested in on the label, the label would be book.
Regards, JEff
I agree with you it is all about choice. We just want to be informed thats all then we can all choose whether you eat it or not right now there is no choice unless you buy organic. I don't know why it is so hard to label well I do because im sure it will affect the sales of GM foods and they don't want that.
If everyone could get the particular information that they are interested in on the label, the label would be book.
Regards, JEff
Mar 12th 2013, 5:31 pm
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Re: Anyone else sick of GM Food & lack of labelling
Much like labels for medications, where there's so much information you can't actually find the dosage info, and if you do find it it's so small you can't read it...
Mar 12th 2013, 7:44 pm
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Re: Anyone else sick of GM Food & lack of labelling
This.
Plus the ingredient dec, like the rest of the food packaging is designed to make you buy the food. A "no GM" tag can't possibly mean NO GM. It will mean a reasonable chance of when tested will contain less than ?% GM derivatives". You will still have no idea how much GM material went into the making of the food. Think of a lovely big steak (mmmmm). Label it "no GM" because it has not been genetically modified. It has still been raised eating GM produce. It depends how far you want to take the fear of GM.
"Tomatoes" on an ingredients dec doesn't need to mean actual tomatoes. You can sub tomato concentrate and water volume and still call it "tomatoes". It just sounds nicer and pushes other things further down the declaration list.
Plus the ingredient dec, like the rest of the food packaging is designed to make you buy the food. A "no GM" tag can't possibly mean NO GM. It will mean a reasonable chance of when tested will contain less than ?% GM derivatives". You will still have no idea how much GM material went into the making of the food. Think of a lovely big steak (mmmmm). Label it "no GM" because it has not been genetically modified. It has still been raised eating GM produce. It depends how far you want to take the fear of GM.
"Tomatoes" on an ingredients dec doesn't need to mean actual tomatoes. You can sub tomato concentrate and water volume and still call it "tomatoes". It just sounds nicer and pushes other things further down the declaration list.
