From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 11:50:30 MDT
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
> ...
>
>Sure, Monsanto and other GM companies have made some PR blunders
>that may slow down the adoption of some foods and give the Luddites
>a bit of political ammo for a while. But ultimately the market
>will give people what they really want, which is the cleaper, safer,
>healthier, tastier food that GM technology can produce.
>
That's why they want it to be illegal to label food to reveal whether it
is GM or not. I don't know the current status of the various laws, but
because the market forces would act against them, the conspire to
conceal which foods have been GM, or irradiated, or etc. (I don't feel
that conspire is too strong a word... they act in secret in concert with
others, and do that which if the beneficiaries weren't legislators would
be called bribery.) I'm not arguing whether the market reaction would
be reasonable or not. Sometimes, frankly, it seems to me unreasonable.
But to conceal the information necessary to allow the market forces to
act removes one from having "market forces" used legitimately in one's
defense. So I don't feel that it is legitimate to defend them with that
argument. You may well find other arguments, but the companies
themselves have so acted as to render that argument invalid.
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