The Co-op from which I buy my food led an effort to require GMO products to be marked thus in Washington State. The initiative was labelled I-522. Some $20 million was raised in opposition, all but $500 worth coming from out of state. So I wrote a letter to the editor of my Co-op newsletter:
Never let the government make definitions. This is an important principle, like "never let the government produce the currency."
And the funny thing is in this controversy, even without the law requiring it, the market is getting what it wants, but in another way -
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
With the outrageous defeat of I-522, is it not time to rethink the food safety strategy of government as protector? We see regularly that the regulated own the regulators, and defeat of initiatives are easily bought. This is so fine tuned that the GMO forces purchased a mere victory, not a landslide.
Now, no doubt the fall-back position for us will be exactly what the evil empire wants, we to call for campaign finance reform or some sort of corporation reform, a process, as demonstrated, for which they control the outcome.
Is it not time for us to realize that the only certification as to whether something is GMO or not, organic or not, is for PCC to define? And then for PCC to oblige its suppliers to comply. And PCC to ally with like-enterprises to this end? I would argue my co-op should take the initiative here, it would probably cost less than we spent on the political initiative.
Never let the government make definitions. This is an important principle, like "never let the government produce the currency."
And the funny thing is in this controversy, even without the law requiring it, the market is getting what it wants, but in another way -
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
3 comments:
This is an outrage. The food industry in America is a big mess. People have a right to know what is in their food and how it is made.
I wasn't sure where else to post this question, but it deals with the FDA:
If the regulated drive the regulators, who benefits from this recent FDA decision to squash 23andme's business?
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/23andme-vs-fda-government-putting-kibosh-innovation-155809600.html
The FDA is owned and operated by the big drug and farm companies. Google is a internet service.
1. The FDA is flexing its muscles by going after a dotcom, classic mission reach.
2. Since the information has to do with health, Big Drug orders its poodle the FDA to attack Google.
Google will probably back down, as an NSA courtesy to the FDA.
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