Ronald Nigh is on the right track. The chemical corporations lost the
first important battle - to have genetically modified crops classed as
organic. Now the consumers at least have a bit of reverse labelling. The
stupid corporate PR clowns didn't have the sense to realize from the
beginning that labelling was what would put their untested commodities over
in the marketplace. If you have pride in what you're selling you don't
hide it. The corporate shills tell us it would cost too much to label, it
wouldn't give the consumer any useful information. Give us a break. If
they think something is positive, like nutritional information, they will
fill the label with it, even if we don't really know what it all means.
Knowing full well what kind of ecological dynamite they were playing with,
they thought they had to sneak in the back door before someone caught them.
Well, they've been caught but they're far from finished (notice the grand
show they're staging in Boston this week), they have the mega-money and the
political power but many consumers want nothing to do with GMOs and many,
many more are very wary and want to know more. GMO boosters like to point
to organizations like Greenpeace when damning the opposition but here on
Vancouver Island, Canada, it is not any of the environmental groups leading
the fight for labelling and caution. Here it is the Women's Institutes and
the Council for Canadians who are doing their best to counteract their own
federal government. Employees in both the provincial and federal
government ministries here are working behind the scenes against the
policies of their own employers. The chemical corporations were wrong
forty years ago when Rachel Carson tweaked their noses, they are wrong now
and all the bought-and-paid-for scientists in the world can't make them
right.
Don Maroc
Vancouver Island, Canada
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