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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnyone still think that Idiocracy is fiction?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/01/17/over-80-percent-of-americans-support-mandatory-labels-on-foods-containing-dna/A recent survey by the Oklahoma State University Department of Agricultural Economics finds that over 80 percent of Americans support mandatory labels on foods containing DNA, about the same number as support mandatory labeling of GMO foods produced with genetic engineering. Oklahoma State economist Jayson Lusk has some additional details on the survey. If the government does impose mandatory labeling on foods containing DNA, perhaps the label might look something like this:
WARNING: This product contains deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The Surgeon General has determined that DNA is linked to a variety of diseases in both animals and humans. In some configurations, it is a risk factor for cancer and heart disease. Pregnant women are at very high risk of passing on DNA to their children.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)I rest my case.
onecaliberal
(33,010 posts)It is much wider spread than most imagined.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)He got the timeline wrong. We will be there in 50
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)about dihydrogen monoxide.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)They use millions of gallons of the stuff. They spread it all over every single crop they grow. Do you know how much of this stuff runs off and gets into our streams and groundwater? It's staggering. They way they use this stuff you'd think that they must assume it just magically falls from the sky.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Glassunion
(10,201 posts)SHIT!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)How's that again? I missed something.
Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again, too. Who decides?
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...from one of my favorite books...I think Heinlein spread more of himself in that one than any other...
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"Who decides?"
The largest corporations making the largest contributions.
Bucky
(54,094 posts)This is Cleveland