Not really a diary, but we never seem to have open threads any more.
But in a 2016 poll conducted by the Pew Research Center, 39 percent of Americans said that they believed GM foods were “worse” for their health than non-GMO foods. And the Non-GMO Project, a nonprofit that opposes genetic engineering and administers the Non-GMO label seen on some North American foods, points out that nearly 90 percent of American consumers believe that GM products should be labeled, according to Consumer Reports.
Crucially, the apples’ packaging will not explicitly declare that they’re genetically engineered — to get that information, shoppers will have to scan a QR code with a smartphone. This was one of the most controversial points of the Obama administration’s GMO labeling law, which requires genetically-modified ingredients be noted with an on-package statement, approved symbol, or electronic code. Okanagan has argued that, thanks to press coverage, most consumers will already know that it’s apples are GMOs.
Riiiiight…
Joe and Jane Sixpack are really up on the latest GMO news, right? So are alla the inner city bodega owners, A&P and the rest of the stupormarkets.
You have read my most recent post, Voice. You recommended it. Identifying Bullshit. Now a College Course. Just In Time For Trumpism.
This is right in its wheelhouse.
BULLSHIT!!!
Now if only the whole U.S. public could be educated to the point that they could smell the bullshit a mile away.
But…NOOOoooo. Not yet. Those poisoned apples will be being chomped upon up and down the land by people who have been fooled once again by the Big Food system. And the health problems that are exacerbated by this kind of shit will make Big Pharma, Big Med and Big Insurance even wealthier.
Thank you so much, Preznit Obama.
Way to leave that wiggle room, Nobel Prize-winning “compromiser.”
Meanwhile, you and your family were eating from Michelle’s organic garden.
Nice.
Go take an expensive vacation.
You’ve earned it.
AG
Well, this should take care of British National Health in a few years, no?
American Agri-Industry products crossing the Atlantic.
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Anglos have apparently peaked. Trump and those of his supporters who are white supremacists part of that downslide…the New World version thereof.
Up the Irish and all the rest of the used-to-be-servant classes!!!
England generally comes in second…right behind Germany…in my least-liked European countries, and I have spent extensive time in many of them. Austria and Spain are tied for third, with Italy bringing up the rear. (The food gives them a big pass.)
After the British Empire’s many excesses?
Serves ’em right.
AG