I don’t see how labeling produce as GMO would increase the price by an appreciable amount and would allow me, as a consumer to make a better decision of what i purchase. It’s also known fact that the use of pesticides have produced plants that are highly resistant to pesticide that compete with desirable plants.

This sets up a condition that increases the cost to the farmer and consumer because they must use much higher doses of pesticides. The producers suffers as does the consumer, the pesticide manufacture is the only one to benefit thru siphoning money out of my pocket, thru taxes and direct cost increase, used to subsidize a farming practice that needs to be modified. This is common sense, it’s not that hard to put together.

The loss of genetic diversity through the loss of locally adapted varieties is asking for future problems. It cheapens crappy food resulting in an epidemic of obesity straining health resources. Pesticides are poisons that have proven effect on many people, especially the most vulnerable the old and the young and not at extreme concentrations either but from chronic long term low dose exposure.

Bio-concentration in mothers milk is proven. The human effect pales in comparison to the environmental damage of decreasing soil fertility by killing off 60-90% of the normal soil biota. As for labeling costs,BAH, ridiculous! Packaging already has a lot of info printed on it and that printing changes regularly for no better reason than marketing.

Adding something like “GMO corn fructose fortified” won’t cost a bloody red cent more. And why should it be labelled? To inform the consumer. The same way that food content labeling, place and date of manufacture labeling etc is required.

Zen Lill is right. We have a right to know, NOT GUESS OR ASS-UME what is there!

The only people that don’t want this transparency in labeling are those with something to hide or that fear it’s effect on their bottom line. GMO’s should be simply banned unless the companies involved will underwrite 100% of all costs, predicted or unforseen, both short and long term, health, environmental and economic! They want the profits but everybody else gets to pay for the costs.

Why should he take the risks and hard work of farming for a lousy $20 per acre profit? If he decides not to farm, then most of us would starve….One should really do the arithmetic first before forming an opinion.

Unfortunately, most of the population has become lazy and indifferent to those things that most likely will damage or destroy us in the name of profit. Genetic modification has given us tasteless products with lowered nutrition and possible harmful ingredients solely in the name of making more money, no matter what Monsanto and others of their ilk might say.