Re: GMO labels

Hook Family (guldann@ix.netcom.com)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 07:48:50 -0800

Bill wrote the very good post of which I refer but due to space have snipped
most. I asked the question is it legal to label something GM free and
started a thread on various other factors about labeling ie: its too
expensive to label, consumers do have the smarts to read them, but I am
still unclear if its legal. I asked the question in the first place due to
what I have read on growth hormones added to milk. Some how Monsanto seems
to have gotten the gov. to make it illegal to label milk as free of added
hormones. This has always troubled me more than the hormone being there in
the first place. I very much disapprove of not allowing labeling should a
company wish too. Granted I do believe that the label needs to be honest.
Thanks Beth

> When we buy any product we are not buying the product but the perceived
> benefit. Think about anything you buy or would like to buy and it is the
> benefits you really are thinking about and thats the reason you make the
> purchase. Now ask the question-why doesn't the bio tech industry want
> labeling? I would suggest that the reason is that most of the products
> they have brought on line have no perceived benefits and may actually have
> negative > benefit to drinking milk with the artificial bovine growth
hormone.snipped

> potential risks. Harvard based studies has shown that levels of IGF-1
> influences the risk of getting breast and prostrate cancer. Levels of
> IGF-1 in normal milk are 1-9 nanograms/ml and with rbgh is 1-13. Women
> with high levels of IGF-1 are 7X more likely to get breast cancer than
> women with low levels and in men it is 4X more prostrate cancer. So you
> can see why Monsanto does not want an informed public on this issue.
>
>

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