I have never seen a pink truck on the road. Why, because the truck people have
figured out the people do not want to buy them.
Emotionally, the truck buying public does not want them. Perhaps the food
business should listen to their customers. They are always right, no matter how
you think they are wrong.
Gary Elliott
"Wilson, Dale" wrote:
> Beth,
>
> > I was wondering this. Why can't products say they are free
> > of GM. And of course I mean they have actually tested and
> > really are free. Or are they "forbidden" to be truthful.
>
> Food processors are very frightened of labeling. First, it is expensive to
> segregate commodities. Second, it is not clear what GMO-free really means.
> For example, if soybean oil is made from transgenic soybeans, but contains
> no DNA or protein, is it GMO-free? What if a conventional load of corn
> contains a few kernels of GMO corn? What if you find a RR soybean in your
> bag of conventional rice? Also, does GMO include things developed with
> molecular techniques that are not transgenic (markers, mutations,
> duplications)?
>
> Finally, public opinion seems to be highly unstable right now. Vastly
> different responses to surveys occur depending on how questions are worded.
> So the value of GMO-free commodities is poorly defined in the market. But
> this will change.
>
> Probably, some entrepreneurs will begin marketing "GMO-free" foods at a
> premium price, taking labeling into their own hands as it were. To be
> reliably free (that is, totally free) of GMO might be pretty expensive. If
> labeling is mandated by the government, most everything on the shelf will
> probably say: "May contain transgenic material."
>
> Dale
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