Wilson, Dale wrote:
> Ann,
>
> > Dale: labelling is not the issue. Informed decision making is what
> > is missing.
>
> When I say "Labelling" as an issue I mean to include consumer
> decision-making as part of the issue.
>
> > So, in the absence of meaningful evidence on risk (and recall,
> > please, that absence of evidence doesn't mean evidence of absence -
> > it just means the research hasn't been done), labelling that
> > something is GMO will be a pointless exercise for the vast majority
> > of citizens.
>
> The GMO issue is another example of miniscule, immeasurably small risk (as
> far as we can tell) being trotted out as an inflammatory red herring to push
> a very comprehensive political (anthropocentric) agenda. I think that
> worrying about GMO's truly is a "pointless exercise." Almost everyone in
> the public research community, the industry, the regulatory community, the
> political center (at least in the US) believes the risks are very small.
> Sure, studies on safety should continue but the crisis atmosphere is
> contrived.
>
> Sanet energy would be better spent on figuring out how to ameliorate the
> devastating effects six billion people are having on wild nature, than on
> bureaucratic boutique food regulation for rich people who have nothing
> better to worry about.
>
> Dale
>
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