YES! We have a right to know what's in our food!
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Thom's Blog Is On the Move
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Thom's blog in this space and moving to a new home.
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It's a norm for food labels to list ingredients. It's not a norm to say how the ingredients were combined. To mandate a special label if and only if ingredients were combined using recombinant DNA -- but not if they were combined using conventional breeding, or using a blender, a mixer, or a percolator -- conveys an implicit message that there's something uniquely dangerous about this particular way of combining things. If there were actually a scientific consensus to that effect, I could support such labels. But there isn't. In fact a leading biologist like Richard Dawkins thinks this campaign is profoundly misguided, as conveyed in his "Open Letter to Prince Charles": http://greatbloke.blogspot.com/2007/03/open-letter-to-prince-charles-ric...
Anyone who thinks GMOs are dangerous anyway knows how to avoid them. But to mandate labels implying this amounts to government disinformation.