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How much of corporate profits has been spent from 2011-2013 on lobbying our government and running campaign ads to block any initiatives to label our food? How is funding campaigns and lobbying for measures that counter what the American consumers want not in violation of our democratic process of voting?

Submitted by: Stu Smith


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Moderator for GMOAnswers.com

Wednesday, 02/10/2013 14:41

Topics like this come up regularly and we wanted to share several responses that may be useful: 

 

One passage from the responses above reads: “We oppose mandatory labeling of GMO food because we believe such a label would convey to consumers that food made from farmers’ crops grown with our seeds is less safe or nutritious or different from conventional or organic food. A recent study conducted by an MIT professor indicated that this indeed would be the case (See Policy and Inference: The Case of Product Labeling).”

 

“We support a consumer’s right to know about the food that they are choosing, but in the absence of any food safety concern, and as believers in GM technology who have seen its benefits accrue to farmers and communities around the world (Check out GMOs and the Future of Agriculture), we believe claims regarding the presence or absence of GMO ingredients are best left to voluntary, market-based labels that traditionally are used by competitors to promote one type of product over another.”

 

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