General Mills to label products containing GMOs in US.

[stonepicker]

I call bullshit to the DNA thing. I think i'll start selling aluminum foil, huge market out there!

[ajl]

More BS out there on the subject of food and nutrition than on global warming. I don't think that labeling GMO's will have much impact. The big problem is that all 'organic' shoppers receive their income from government sources. When the government is forced to layoff staff., the organic industry will shrink as people will become more value conscious and realize that foods containing GMO's are proven to be just fine if not better than so called 'organic'.

[rockpile]

Labels don't matter, after all, who but a very few read ingredient lists when grocery shopping. I used to be suspicious when gmo's first appeared but until a conclusive reliable scientific study comes out and proves a health risk, I'm not going to worry about it. What I laugh at is some of these young anti everything will then go out to a high end sushi bar, sip herbal tea and eat raw fish. Gross!!!

[farming101]

Be ready to make major changes in your diet if you don't want any gm ingredients.

[MBgrower]

I think we better be ready to be accountable and document everything with respect to producing and storing our production. The horse is out of the barn, cant stop it now.

[grassfarmer]

Be ready to make major changes in your diet if you don't want any gm ingredients.

Yes, in terms of how many food products contain gmo ingredients today.
No, in terms of every crop that is GM can also be produced non-gm so not really a need to change your diet.

When you think about it it's really all in the manufactured stuff that we should eat less of anyway - the cookies, candy, refined carbohydrate, corn syrup in everything.

A diet heavy in fruit, vegetables, red meat, fish, bread, rice can quite easily be gmo free.

[wmoebis]

Yep all cooked in Canola oil.

[oneoff]

I'd call bull shit on just about anything repeated by anyone who says GMO is devoid of practically any nutrient factors at all... or those who say animals won't eat seeds or forage derived from from GMO's

Who believes such out and out misleading crap.

Oh sure all the ones who don't know any better and that could include the biggest chunk of the masses.

Those purveyors of misinformation will one day answer for their outright stupidity.

Might as well be candid about the facts before it surely become the "law".

[freewheat]

Yep all cooked in Canola oil.

Canola oil which has no protein. Which means the oil is gmo free. The irony is that non gm canola is the same as gm canola oil. The label is only about feeding consumer ignorance.

Which is fine, I may grow some non gm canola this year.

But I do not like the labeling issue. A label makes out like gm is bad somehow. It gives consumers a perception that is unfounded in science.

So far as genes being transferable to humans like biglentil said? Just weird is all that theory is. We should be pork or chickens or beef by now.

[biglentil]

freewheat we share 97% of the same dna as a chimp, 90% of the dna with a housecat, 60% the same dna as a fricken banana plant. Where the frick do you think the building blocks come from? Its hillarious that monsanto's own scientist demanded organic non gmo in their cafeterias but you guys are frickin experts on the safety of gmo's.