VETO THE DARK ACT!
I know we’re all wrapped up in the convention just now, but if you want the choice to be easily apparent that you’re eating poison and you want to avoid it, sign VETO THE DARK ACT —
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On July 7, the Senate passed a bill to label genetically modified foods allowing companies to use QR codes instead of words on the package. It discriminates against low income families, minorities, mothers, seniors, the disabled & those without smartphones.
In 2007 President Obama said, “We’ll let folks know whether their food has been genetically modified because Americans should know what they’re buying.”
ALL Americans should know what they’re buying, not just the privileged.
Only 21% of Americans surveyed have scanned QR codes; QR code software must be downloaded. Just 27% of seniors & 50% of low income Americans own smartphones. 42% of Blacks & 36% of Latinos have had to let their smartphone service lapse. President Obama: Stand up for ALL Americans. Veto this discriminatory bill.
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I admit that as a physician Board Certified in Internal Medicine, I am deeply sceptical of GMOs in food because I am not satisfied that the proper long-term studies have been done to conclusively demonstrate their safety in human nutrition. GMOs are inestimably valuable if confined to bioreactors to produce useful drugs. They just do not belong in the food supply. They also do not improve crop yields, so why use them anyway, except to impoverish and enslave farmers?
I heard about this on Redacted Tonight and it is scary. Thanks for the link to the petition. Signed.
Signed.
Thank you!
You are exactly on point, Star Strider.
There is no proven nutritional benefit, and there are possibly detrimental aspects to this “methodology”.
While the motivation is, as you point out, to abuse and distort by trickery the concept of intellectual property in order to “impoverish and enslave” farmers, as you point out.
It’s Outrageous.
I. Signed.
Also signed the petition on Food Democracy:
http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/sign/label_gmos_now_2016/?t=2&akid=1913.56877.y4-Dlk
Thanks for posting this, Dr. Star. Signed!
Thanks for sharing!! Signed.
Thank you @starstrider. I signed another petition and will gladly sign this one. Monsanto used its’ corp $$ and lobbyists to influence our legislators to have that bar code usage inserted in the bill instead of plain GMO labeling/wordage.
There are very few people in this country that have access to anything that can read that code . Many seniors certainly don’t.
DARK Act=Deny Americans the Right to Know
I firmly believe it is our basic right to know exactly what we are buying and eating. I will not knowingly eat GMO Frankenfoods.
Signed!
I respect the differing opinions on GMOs, but as someone that has read a lot about it and thinks that progressives should be a little more skeptical of the anti-GMO movement, I think that this should be part of the discussion.
http://www.vox.com/2016/7/7/12111346/gmo-labeling-bill-congress
Not super in-depth analysis of GMOs, but good analysis of the labeling issues.
I’ll add another site that I’ve come to trust on subjects that I feel like I have a hard time forming an opinion on because I don’t have significant personal knowledge.
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/answering-questions-about-gmos/
Thanks for checking these out if you have the time. Again, I know it’s a subject that people have strong opinions about, but speaking for myself, the more knowledge from different perspectives the better.
Who the hell is going to take out their smart phone — assuming they have one — and scan a QR code, as opposed to spending a second or two to read a warning? This definitely is scary.