Dr. Oz speaks out against GMO foods - the industry panics - Health ...

Dr. Oz must be slipping in popularity to have taken such a backward stance on GMOs. Here's the proposal:

Proposition 37, a Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Engineered Food Initiative, is on the November 6, 2012 ballot in California as an initiated state statute.

If Proposition 37 is approved by voters, it will:

• Require labeling on raw or processed food offered for sale to consumers if the food is made from plants or animals with genetic material changed in specified ways.
  
• Prohibit labeling or advertising such food as "natural."
  
• Exempt from this requirement foods that are "certified organic; unintentionally produced with genetically engineered material; made from animals fed or injected with genetically engineered material but not genetically engineered themselves; processed with or containing only small amounts of genetically engineered ingredients; administered for treatment of medical conditions; sold for immediate consumption such as in a restaurant; or alcoholic beverages."

James Wheaton (a lawyer, not a scientist), who filed the ballot language for the initiative, refers to it as "The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act."

I'm voting against it. Prop 37 is un-necessary due to the random and arbitrary nature of how it designates of what foods "need" to be labeled -- Milk, yes; Beer, no (for example).

What really bugs me about Prop 37 are the exemptions; there should be no exemptions to such a law - it should be applied equally, to every food, and all of the time. There is no science or sense to it at all; unless, of course, the Organic Food Producers are backing the proposition, then it becomes obvious why it is on the ballot, and who will benefit the most by it -- what with "organic" foods being more expensive than the rest, while also having been proven to have no real benefit over "non-organic" foods.
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