Thom Hartmann: If You Were Eating Food that Could Kill You - Want to Know?

[thomhartmann]

If you were eating something completely unnatural - something that could make you sick - give you cancer - make your testicles shrink - heck, even kill you - wouldn't you want to know? If you answered yes - then you're on the same side as over 90% of your fellow Americans. Poll after poll over the last few years - has shown that more than 90% of Americans support specific labeling of genetically modified foods that they buy in grocery stores. And European and other developed countries require labeling of GMOs -- genetically modified foods. But even though for years Americans have been demanding the right to know what's in their food - and whether or not it's franken-food - not a single piece of state or federal legislation has ever been passed to make it happen. Which brings us to California. Efforts to force the state legisature to pass laws to require labeling of genetically modified foods have failed - so now citizens of the state have taken matters into their own hands. After collecting more than a million signatures - the citizens of California put proposition 37 on the ballot for November - which will force all genetically modified foods to have special labels. Good news, right? Well...now the fight is just starting. That's because the biggest purveyors of genetically modified foods - giant corporations like Monsanto, DuPont, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestle - all of them are spending enormous amounts of money to defeat Prop 37. They don't want you to know what's in your food. Monsanto alone has spent more than 4 million bucks - so too has Dupont - and in total the GMO industry has raised $25 million to kill prop 37 - and to kill your right to know what's in the food you eat. On the other hand - the supporters of Prop 37 - have only raised $2 million. This is going to be an uphill battle.

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[bunnies]

1. 90% of people say the want to know,

but how many of them care? Coke and pepsi are nothing but chemical soup as it is & people drink it up anyway.

[mother earth]

2. If you are afraid of truth in labeling, you are peddling poison, you know it & we know it. nt

[freshwest]

3. +1

[Kalidurga]

4. I hope you are feeling better...

excellent post. I think that labeling GMO foods will happen in California. The rest of the nation may follow suit, but on that I am not so confident.

[Cleita]

5. Welcome back Thom.

We missed you and I'm shocked to learn that we almost lost you. Be well.

[HopeHoops]

6. MAKE MY TESTICLES SHRINK? E-FUCKING-GADS!

[fasttense]

7. Without GMO labeling you have NO choice.

Want to eat pesticide laden fruits and veggies? Want to eat and drink chemical filled foods like canned soups and sodas? Go ahead you have a choice in the matter. You can buy organic or Certified Naturally Grown and avoid pesticide and other harmful chemicals. You can avoid soda and drink fruit juices, water or teas. But you do NOT have a choice about GMO. Since the GMO foods are frequently hidden both for human consumption and animal consumption you are never sure if you are getting GMO foods or Not.

Those people who love chemicals can go ahead and eat all the GMO crap they want. But those of us who don't want to eat it do NOT have a choice because you never know in what foods it is hidden.

Corporations are poisoning us with the help of our own government, thanks to no labeling laws.