Truthstream Media – by Aaron Dykes and Melissa Melton
Apparently GMOs are so awesome and wonderful, the companies that sell them are doing everything they can to keep people from knowing it.
The Organic Consumers Association is reporting that the Grocery Manufacturer’s Association — the mega lobby group that represents 300+ companies and much more than just grocery stores — is using a leaked talking points memo to basically misinform and intimidate our legislators with threats of lawsuits should they even attempt to back a GMO labeling law in their state.
This is the same organization that is petitioning to allow GMOs to be considered “natural” on food packaging, and the same group that is trying to get a weak voluntary federal law passed to preempt the adoption of any meaningful labeling legislation at the state level.
And even the association admits that 80% of the food consumed in the United States is genetically modified. (Not sure how they know that, considering it isn’t labeled…).
Oh, Politico quoted their top lobbyist as saying the reason these companies have already spent over $70 million to fight state labeling is because telling you GMO is in your food would “misinform” you — apparently labeling genetically modified foods is equal to “implying that there is something wrong with the product.”
http://truthstreammedia.com/leaked-food-lobby-threatens-to-sue-any-state-that-tries-to-label-gmos/
I’m sure someone has already addressed this one, I can’t remember: why not then label non-GMO products “non-GMO?” Is that impossible to do for some legal reasons or whatever?
It is possible to label “non-GMO.” See http://www.nongmoproject.org/learn-more/understanding-our-seal/. But IMO, it’s better to simply buy local at a farmer’s market or CSA so you can meet and ask the farmer your questions face to face.
I have no idea of the time and costs to be able to meet the non-GMO seal standards, but they might be above what a fresh produce small farmer would be willing to “eat” to obtain the “seal of approval.” Also, meeting the standard requires additional paperwork, as well as on-site inspections, which if I were a retail fresh produce small farmer would not tolerate in any form. Private property is private property and no government or NGO goon has the right to trespass. And with formalization of non-GMO seal standards, I could see the government communists then passing more unconstitutional legislation to co-opt the movement.
OK now, what we need is the names and where they are from of any one that is on that food lobby board. I got something for them 😉
GMA Leadership
Pamela G. Bailey
President and Chief Executive Officer
Jim Flannery
Senior Executive Vice President, Operations and Industry Affairs
Dr. Leon Bruner, DVM, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President for Scientific and Regulatory Affairs and Chief Science Officer
Louis Finkel
Executive Vice President, Government Affairs
Sean Darragh
Executive Vice President, Global Strategies
Sean McBride
Executive Vice President, Communications and Membership Services
Steve McCroddan, CPA
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer
Carla Mitchell, SPHR
Vice President, Human Resources
Mary Sophos
Executive Vice President for Policy and Strategic Planning
Karin Moore
Vice President and General Counsel
And then there’s this…
http://factsaboutgmos.org/
This site pimps their lies about GMOs. Feed the world’s hungry?…ha. More like kill. What orwellian khazar ‘jew’ bullshit.
-flek
Thanks fleck 🙂
One would get the idea that they don’t want us to
know what foods are GMO….