Dale said
>This thread is beginning to sound like the chlorpyrifos thread! In real
Dale, I agree that there is a common theme in these two discussions. The
European market is saying No to GMO's and people are saying no to chemical
trespass of chlorpyrifos in there bodies. But is anybody in industry
listening?
It is not a question of amount of the contamination. It is a question of
whether we have sovereignty over our own bodies. Do we have the right to
know about and select the type of food we eat or to resist the chemical
contamination of our bodies or have these rights been ceded to corporations
and the WTO and NAFTA trade tribunals? I don't recall ever voting on this
issue.
This is especially ironic in the USA where the trend here of late has been
to be to expand the individual's right to veto the decisions of their duly
elected representives. Reference the recently argument before the Supreme
Court concerning the distribution of student fees by the elected student
government and the attempts by republican to ban duly elected union
officials from spending their funds in a manner that would most benefit
their members.
The real crux of the matter is do "We the people" control the government
and the markets or is the machinery of government and the market now
conrolled by "corporate persons"? Mike Miller
>customers who need very low levels of GMO contamination. As for new
>production, there are ways to achieve stringent levels of purity (maybe as
>low as 0.01%), but it will be expensive. Most customers won't need that,
>and won't be willing to pay for that.
PS. I suspect that most counties who object to GMO contamination will not
pay more for normal wheat and corn from the United States. In this grain
glutted market, they can buy their grains from counties who have chosen not
to adopt GMO's. I guess that is what free market competion is all about -
unless it can be stifled with the WTO, MAI et al.
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