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Can I just say that Mozilla completely rocks? Mark, you're so right, and I'm glad I finally got the energy to install it.

And in other news, Oregon voters may have the chance to decide whether they want to know if their food has been genetically altered.
Surprisingly, many corporations are quite opposed to this and claim that the costs would be prohibitive--businesses would collapse and food prices would skyrocket.
This labelling is already being done in Europe, but I'm not certain what effects it had there.

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esmerel mentioned this to me this morning.

I wonder what 'genetically altered' means, exactly. Almost every food commercially available is genetically altered in some fashion.

If all this gets revealed and turns into a repeat of the Bovine Growth Serum hue and cry from the early 90's, I will be seriously disgusted at people.

[spenceraloysius.livejournal.com]

In terms of arguments against GMO, I offer the following link which summarizes the argument pretty well.

http://www.netlink.de/gen/fagan.html

The current major point of contention, to me, seems to be that while it has not yet been proven whether or not genetically modified foods are harmful to humans and/or the environment, that people should be given the choice whether to eat GMO or not. Thus, the labelling. Being in the midwest, I hear a lot of the flack that Monsanto gets for its genetically modified soybeans and the fact that farmers fear that this drive away from GMO will cause soybean futures to drop. Well, at least the news has been talking that way for 3 years now and I've yet to see it seriously impact soybeans. For the most part, the people I see extremely concerned about GMO labelling are people who eat organic foods because GMO is not considered organic.