Rand Paul Votes NO on GMO Labeling

[Carlybee]

But it's not limited government if the government is in bed with the likes of Monsanto and at the same time out arresting raw milk farmers and trying to squash organic growers. A label at this point is tantamount to putting a poison sticker on a bottle of rat killer.

 

[Weston White]

So they spent money on a political campaign, and the SCOTUS already said that is a 1st amendment right to political speech.
Besides the politicians actually being beholden to these companies, then what is the problem? The problem is that the government is putting these companies in a position of influence, rather than the company competing under the standards that the federal government sets.

Yes, but see, that’s the fallacy. Say, when I donate to a candidate that donation is hardly, if at all noticed. However, when say, Monsanto lobbyists donate to that same candidate, it is noticed, there is an “understanding” being levied.

So let's just call this process was it is actually is, legalized bribery, if not extortion. This is not such a simple issue as just freedom of speech, which really has nothing to do with proving political contributions, e.g., company-X giving candidate-A $500,000 is not all comparable to company-X publicly supporting candidate-A verbally or on company stationary, products, adverts, etc. Clearly, it is vastly more intergral.

 

[Working Poor]

I completely agree with Bernie Sanders on this I think I want to write him a letter and thank him for his efforts. What really sticks in my gut is that there are so many bill before the house and senate that are for big corpo and hurting the people I can't keep up with it all and I think we do need less laws especially the ones that allow companies like Monsanto to poison every person in our country with no consequences except increasing profits. If a country like Brazil requires labeling of GMO foods and we are saying it limiting freedom to label this crap oh come on.

They put aspartame in a lot of food I am deathly allergic to it if it were not for this labeling I could die from eating it. I cannot go down the sugar ailse in a grocery store because there is too much risk that I could accidentally touch it or breathe I cannot even touch it. The stuff kills insects almost immedatly after they come into contact with it. Don't believe me? Pour some diet soda on an ant kill and watch them. Rats won't eat it either. But if it were not for labeling I would probably be dead. I look on in horror anytime I see someone in a wheel chair or on oxygen drinking a diet soda and think to myself don't they have any idea that the aspartame could be at very least harming them more. I am sure that many people are experiencing illness that is directly related to aspartame and GMO foods the crap needs to have a big skull and cross bones on it cause it is poison.

 

[Working Poor]

I completely agree with Bernie Sanders on this I think I want to write him a letter and thank him for his efforts. What really sticks in my gut is that there are so many bill before the house and senate that are for big corpo and hurting the people I can't keep up with it all and I think we do need less laws especially the ones that allow companies like Monsanto to poison every person in our country with no consequences except increasing profits. If a country like Brazil requires labeling of GMO foods and we are saying it limiting freedom to label this crap oh come on.

They put aspartame in a lot of food I am deathly allergic to it if it were not for this labeling I could die from eating it. I cannot go down the sugar ailse in a grocery store because there is too much risk that I could accidentally touch it or breathe I cannot even touch it. The stuff kills insects almost immedatly after they come into contact with it. Don't believe me? Pour some diet soda on an ant kill and watch them. Rats won't eat it either. But if it were not for labeling I would probably be dead. I look on in horror anytime I see someone in a wheel chair or on oxygen drinking a diet soda and think to myself don't they have any idea that the aspartame could be at very least harming them more. I am sure that many people are experiencing illness that is directly related to aspartame and GMO foods the crap needs to have a big skull and cross bones on it cause it is poison.

I think any medical exam ought to include a complete list of all things that a person eats to see what patterns develop out of that.

 

[jllundqu]

I am very dissappointed in Rand. I am a food freedom advocate, much like Ron Paul is. I would love it if a state could choose to label foods containing Frankenfoods(read: GMOs). That would be a direct hit to Monsnato and Co. All I want is clean food and water without pesticide-self-growing Roundup-Ready Corn, Cyanide producing Hybridized Alfalfa, etc. This should have been an easy vote for Rand, but he truly is positioning himself as a Benedict Arnold. Very sad to watch.

Since when does a self-described Socialist like Bernie Sanders make more sense than a so-called "Liberty" candidate like Rand Paul???

 

[GeorgiaAvenger]

I am very dissappointed in Rand. I am a food freedom advocate, much like Ron Paul is. I would love it if a state could choose to label foods containing Frankenfoods(read: GMOs). That would be a direct hit to Monsnato and Co. All I want is clean food and water without pesticide-self-growing Roundup-Ready Corn, Cyanide producing Hybridized Alfalfa, etc. This should have been an easy vote for Rand, but he truly is positioning himself as a Benedict Arnold. Very sad to watch.

Since when does a self-described Socialist like Bernie Sanders make more sense than a so-called "Liberty" candidate like Rand Paul???

Did you review the amendment and what it actually meant?

See my posts earlier in the thread.

 

[Pisces]

Here is Natural News' take on this issue:

As others have already begun to point out in the days following the amendment's rejection, the legislation was essentially toothless from the start. The federal government does not, after all, have the constitutional authority to prohibit states from requiring GMO labeling, let alone permit it. The federal government has also never even tried, at this point, to legally stop individual states from mandating GMO labeling. This means S. Amdt. 2310 was a faulty attempt to address an issue that is not even an issue, and one that attempted to do so using an unconstitutional approach.

A key thing to remember in all this is that neither the federal government nor the U.S. Congress has any constitutional authority to grant states permission to label or not to label GMOs. Under the U.S. Constitution, individual states already possess their own inherent authority to determine how they wish to handle the GMO labeling issue, and the federal government does not legally possess any authority whatsoever in the matter.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/036301_Rand_Paul_GMO_labeling_Senate.html#ixzz1yvJakMX4

 

[tbone717]

This was posted on Rand's FB

I am an opponent of the FDA's war on natural foods and farmers. I've stood up for raw milk, hemp and natural supplements. I fought to take power AWAY from the government on these issues. So while there is evidence we should be concerned about GMOs, we should also be careful not to lose our constitutional perspective simply because the end result is one we may desire. That's what we fight against. That's what the statists do. Take a loot at a pretty thorough rundown on the recent GMO amendment. There were many more problems with it, including the potential the FDA could have assumed broad new rulemaking authority if this badly written amendment had passed.

 

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