Re: GMO labeling

Sal (sals@rain.org)
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 07:11:49 -0800

I would like to see a good label on GM foods not one that says this product
may contain GM . there are so many and they are all different and the label
IMHO should state what GM is being used. I would like to know that this
milk came from cows injected with a genetically engineered growth hormone
HBST or what ever or these beans were grown from a plant that was gene
engineered with a virus that kills whatever or this bean was genetically
engineered with a common cold fighter or a loose weight gene or what ever.
because they can take a gene from anything and add it to anything for a
label to be good and make the company proud and most of all inform the
people that eat it ,it should tell what the GM is being used on the label.
also I would like to see any GM product that may contaminate a organic
grower to be stopped. this show that it is out in the environment and can
not be controlled. CAN NOT BE Controlled is the key phrase. if it can not
be controlled its chemical trespass.
check out a organic growers web page
http://www.rain.org/~sals/my.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wilson, Dale" <WILSONDO@phibred.com>
To: "'Hook Family'" <guldann@ix.netcom.com>
Cc: <sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 13, 1999 7:16 AM
Subject: RE: GMO labeling

> 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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