Rand voted no on GMO labeling (a year ago)

[GunnyFreedom]

We're on well water.

Maybe I am wrong, but I am gathering that you favor mandatory food labeling.

Yes. You are wrong.

Fascism is the public / private partnership that would entail developing labels. I think the FDA should be abolished, but even if this power were handed out at the state level, where are you going to find the person to run a food labeling program, aside from the food industry?

Fascism is the unholy alliance between Washington and Monsanto that is inflicting this food dystopia upon us.

ETA - and the fluoride comment wasn't about the effects of water, but the effects of GMO. I cannot comprehend how there are members of this forum actively - and passionately - defending food fascism unless they have possibly been affected by something. This whole movement was the possibly the most principled anti-fascist movement America had ever seen, and yet here folks are not merely defending food fasism, but apparently defending it to the death. I just don't get it.

 

[mad cow]

Farmers buy what seeds they want to plant.It seems like a whole pile of them prefer Monsanto seeds.Would you have the government force them at gunpoint to buy another company's seeds?Would you consider that fascism if it happened?

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Farmers buy what seeds they want to plant.It seems like a whole pile of them prefer Monsanto seeds.Would you have the government force them at gunpoint to buy another company's seeds?Would you consider that fascism if it happened?

Pretty sure nobody here has advocated for seed bans, prohibitions, or mandates.

That's the other thing the pro-GMO folks are doing around here. They are just 'making crap up' about us anti-food-fascism folks in an attempt to paint us as something we are not. That's how neocons debate libertarians. Surely we do not want to adopt their disintegrity?

 

[amy31416]

Farmers buy what seeds they want to plant.It seems like a whole pile of them prefer Monsanto seeds.Would you have the government force them at gunpoint to buy another company's seeds?Would you consider that fascism if it happened?

I certainly wouldn't, but I do think that many farmers may come to regret using the Monsanto soybean/Roundup duo in the long-term. And I'm completely against their abysmal practice of suing farmers unfortunate enough to have been contaminated with their seeds.

At this point, I'm against Monsanto being able to patent their seeds as well. Haven't thought about it or researched it as much as I could have though.

 

[angelatc]

I certainly wouldn't, but I do think that many farmers may come to regret using the Monsanto soybean/Roundup duo in the long-term. And I'm completely against their abysmal practice of suing farmers unfortunate enough to have been contaminated with their seeds.

At this point, I'm against Monsanto being able to patent their seeds as well. Haven't thought about it or researched it as much as I could have though.

I think the farmers whose crops are contaminated should be the people suing. I'm not necessarily against Monsanto being able to patent their seeds, but I am against the concept that they own the seeds that those plants produce.

The "rentership" society seems to be where we are headed. We don't buy music any more, we buy a digital file that allows us to listen to it until they disable it. Same with software. Adobe is abandoning it's desktop system in favor of a cloud based subscription model. You essentially rent the right to use their software.

And the housing market makes me cry. The house next door to me went for either $19,000 or $30,000 depending on who I ask. He paid cash for it, and rents it out for $950 a month. Which is crazy, I think. The new family moving in has 3 small kids, both work. Paying $900 a month they'll never be able to save up enough money to buy their own place.

The rich get richer.

 

[NationalAnarchist]

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/L...ote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=1&vote=00135

Here is the link I MEANT to post he voted against it AGAIN just a few days ago.