From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 13:30:07 MDT
--- Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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.
So long as you apply the term consistently to describe the dealings of
masked luddite saboteurs, of luddite special interest groups, and of
organic industry special interest groups.
To exclude GM but to allow hybridized plant species is a double
standard that has no scientific basis. Hybridization is a shotgun
method of forced evolution. GM is more like a rifle. Which is more
likely to cause collateral damage?
> 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.
The problem, Charles, is that this is a double standard. Luddite groups
conspire in secret, they lie, cheat, sabotage, and spread
disinformation throughout the 'organic' community, so much so that
there are people on this list that believe their lies. Monsanto and
other for-profits are not permitted to act similarly because they are
deemed to be tainted by a profit motive.
We in this group could act against luddism, but we don't. Pro-Act is
stillborn and every suggestion I've made in the last several years has
been shot down by naysayers on this list.
=====
Mike Lorrey
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