I have been advocating for the simple labelling of GMO foods in Canada. Why not label?
What are politicians in need of hiding?
I think that our brilliant and educated scientists would not mind regulations that enforce the labeling of GMO foods. Unless they are being pressured not to condone labeling of course.
My comments are not directed against the science community…
The business and political leaders involved are determined not to lable GMOs.
It is very very frustrating. I would like to eat organically but not pay for food that is grown organically while using GMO seeds. This sounds outrageous. Organic GMOs? Marketing genius or marketing genocide?
I ask for labelling. I believe in choice and I feel that my intelligence and sense of judgement should be respected by our global leaders. We stand for human rights around the world and labeling is a human right.
When politicians waste our tax dollars and work on our time to convince us that our fears are wrong, then I am going to become upset. You would all feel the same, no doubt.
The government is in the process of banning simple foods and herbs because they consider them dangerous to the public. Yet they have no problems introducing a very young science into our food chain. I consider that irresponsible and contradictory. I do not trust the WHO/FAO/UN/American or Canadian or Mexican government to do what is right for me, or for naturalists, libertarians, all cultures and all races.
We value life and feel that the problems with food distribution, politics and economics are to be blamed for the food shortage. Four of my siblings are scientists and educators. They understand both sides of the picture. They are not convinced that GM foods or the latest in nanotechnology are the answer. I ask for labelling and that is what we should all press for if we believe in progress and innovation.

Pro-GMO activists will tell you that we have been doing ‘genetic modification’ for centuries, so why all the fuss over GMO’s? Fact is, recombinant DNA technologies (what most people are referring to when they use the term ‘GMO’) were first discovered in 1973 and were not used commercially until 1996. This technology (which allows not only trans-species transgenics, but also trans-kingdom transgencis) is potentially dangerous, and its discovery triggered the 1975 Asilomar Conference in Pacific Grove, California.

From a July 1, 2007 article in the New York Times (’A Challenge to Gene Theory, a Tougher Look at Biotech’ - Denise Caruso): “Evidence of a networked genome shatters the scientific basis for virtually every official risk assessment of today’s commercial biotech products, from genetically engineered crops to pharmaceuticals.”

So it goes with scientific proclamations: what is safe today is a health hazard tomorrow.

Let’s hope it’s not too late when science catches up – once they are let loose on the environment, you cannot recall genes.