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Title: Here’s The Politicians Who Were Paid to Make GMO Labeling Illegal (Despite 90% of people wanting labeling)
Source: Natural Society
URL Source: http://naturalsociety.com/who-was-r ... gmo-labeling-via-the-dark-act/
Published: Jul 27, 2015
Author: Christina Sarich
Post Date: 2015-08-01 13:13:31 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 625
Comments: 6

Want to know where the dirty money is which is helping to make GMO labeling illegal?

Shockingly, or perhaps not to the individuals who have been observing the biotech charade, house members who voted to keep the public from knowing what is in their food in the latest land-slide win for Big Food supporters of The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015 (known to its critics as the DARK (Deny Americans the Right to Know Act)) were paid three times as much as representatives who voted to give us the right to label or ban GMO foods.

It seems odd that the bill would float through Congress so easily with a 275 to 150 vote when so many Americans have expressed a wish to have their food labeled. The Center for Food safety says that 93% of Americans want their food labeled if it contains GM ingredients. And that is just one of many surveys showing similar results:

Surveys repeatedly show that 80 percent to 95 percent of people want foods that contain genetically modified organisms to be labeled (in the least). Here is a simple breakdown of some reported polls on consumer demand for GMO labeling:

  • ABC News: 93% want federal GM labeling mandate

Petition: STOP the DARK Act Which Would Make GMO Labeling Illegal!

Really – we label everything from pillows with warning labels – ‘this tag not to be removed’ to our pants. Why not GM foods? What is it that Big Ag is trying to hide from us?

Usually, if everyone wants to purchase something, the free market dictates that companies jump on the bandwagon and try to sell that something – but not with genetically modified food. Our rights have been trampled on, and you have the right to know who has bought in this recent landslide vote in favor of the biotech industry and business as usual that protects profits instead of people.

According to opensecrets.org, this is where the money trail leads:

  • …the campaigns of Reps. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), Mike Conaway (R-Texas) and Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.), all cosponsors of the legislation (most of whom also sit on the House Agriculture Committee), received six-figure dollar amounts from providers of agricultural services and products — one segment of the agribusiness sector — during the 2014 election cycle. That put them high among the top 20 recipients of funds from the industry.

  • Cosponsors such as Reps. David Valadao (R-Calif.), Steve Fincher (R-Tenn.), Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) aren’t on the Agriculture Committee, but nevertheless pulled in six-figure dollar amounts from the crop production and basic processing industry (another part of agribusiness; think Cargill Inc. and the National Corn Growers Association) during the midterm cycle — landing them among the 20 members who received the most from that industry.
  • Reps. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) and G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.), two original sponsors of the legislation, were the top two current House members receiving the most money from the Grocery Manufacturers Association in 2014. The grocery manufacturers — who have spent $4.1 million lobbying on all issues so far this year, almost as much as they spent in all of 2014 — have lobbied on the bill more than any other organization, mentioning the measure on 14 lobbying reports this year.

    Do you see your representative in this list? If you do, they certainly weren’t representing you.

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#1. To: Deckard (#0)

How DARE Americans actually wanting to KNOW what they are eating!
Something must be WRONG with them!

/sarc

Chuck_Wagon  posted on  2015-08-01   20:41:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Deckard (#0)

Representative democracy....

rlk  posted on  2015-08-01   21:40:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Deckard (#0)

as long as you are willing to absorb the cost of the extensive testing required to ensure it's GMO free .............. Most people will tell you they believe corporations are 'greedy ' ,and yet surprised when corporations pass on the cost of regulation into the price of the product they sell.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

tomder55  posted on  2015-08-02   5:25:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: tomder55 (#3)

No need for high costs.

They know what they grew. If they lie put them out of business.

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-08-02   9:30:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: A K A Stone (#4)

yes testing would be required because there is a belief among the anti-GM crowd that there is pollen drift and comingling . I don't know if that is true or not ,but let's say it is . Someone may claim they are growing non-GM products and in fact may be selling crops tainted with residual GM .Consumers who want to buy non-GM food already have the option to purchase verified non-GM foods or certified organic foods. But to certify them requires testing.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

tomder55  posted on  2015-08-02   20:05:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Deckard (#0)

From your New York Times poll:

"They were even less comfortable about eating meat from genetically engineered animals: three-quarters said they would not eat G.M.O. fish, and about two-thirds said they would not eat meat that had been modified."

There is no such thing as meat from genetically engineered animals. You can't buy it. It isn't being sold.

These people are commenting on something that doesn't exist.

misterwhite  posted on  2015-08-03   15:09:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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