Dr. Oz speaks out against GMO foods - the industry panics - Health ...

Dr. Oz must be slipping in popularity to have taken such a backward stance on GMOs. Here's the proposal:

Proposition 37, a Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Engineered Food Initiative, is on the November 6, 2012 ballot in California as an initiated state statute.

If Proposition 37 is approved by voters, it will:

• Require labeling on raw or processed food offered for sale to consumers if the food is made from plants or animals with genetic material changed in specified ways.
  
• Prohibit labeling or advertising such food as "natural."
  
• Exempt from this requirement foods that are "certified organic; unintentionally produced with genetically engineered material; made from animals fed or injected with genetically engineered material but not genetically engineered themselves; processed with or containing only small amounts of genetically engineered ingredients; administered for treatment of medical conditions; sold for immediate consumption such as in a restaurant; or alcoholic beverages."

James Wheaton, who filed the ballot language for the initiative, refers to it as "The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act."

I'm voting against it. Prop 37 is un-necessary due to the random and arbitrary nature of how it designates of what foods "need" to be labeled -- Milk, yes; Beer, no (for example).

What really bugs me about Prop 37 are the exemptions; there should be no exemptions to such a law - it should be applied equally, to every food, and all of the time. There is no science or sense to it at all; unless, of course, the Organic Food Producers are backing the proposition, then it becomes obvious why it is on the ballot, and who will benefit the most by it -- what with "organic" foods being more expensive than the rest, while also having been proven to have no real benefit over "non-organic" foods.
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