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In reply to the discussion: Tiny Vermont Brings Food Industry to Its Knees on GMO Labels [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)Some companies and products, yes.
The issue is with what we'll call the Big-10. These 10 food companies produce something like 94% of all the prepared foods sold in the US...basically everything that comes in a cardboard box and isn't raw ingredient (raw ingredients being eggs, milk, some dairy, raw produce, flour, grain, etc.); they also produce more than 50% of the raw ingredient product in US supermarkets.
These companies are likely to pull all their products, those containing GMOs and not. That basically means all the cereals, all the frozen food, all the shredded cheese, all the pasta, all the pasta sauces, all the candy; virtually all the milk, juice, bread, flour; about half the fruit and vegetables, cold cuts, prepared meat...remove all the big-10 food-producer food and your grocery store looks like this:
Now, I don't eat their crap either. I grew up in the restaurant business, have run restaurant kitchens and have been a chef d' cuisine...I can cook. My point is that GMO laws of this type are doomed to failure from the outset if food producers don't buy-in on complying with them because most people cannot cook...if you take away all the prepared foods from a supermarket, most people would cease to be able to feed themselves. At that point, the PR campaign begins and by the end of the month, you have 10,000 Vermonters demanding the repeal of the law so they can have their Sunkist oranges, Starkist tuna, and Cheerios back.
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