On Jul 23, 2006, at 10:22 AM, Jayson Funke wrote:
This raises the issue of food labeling. As indicated in several of the
recent posts, many people want to know what is in their food and
how it
is grown and where it is grown.
An interesting debate revolves around labeling, and whether or not
organic food should be labeled or (as I favor) if GM foods should be
labeled. From my perspective, organic labeling has two effects: 1) it
makes organic food into a niche market (making it more difficult to
absorbed into the mainstream), and 2) it leaves the general public
with
the impression that GM foods are normal and thus not in need of
labeling
(in other words, why is there not a stronger movement to label GM
foods,
which might force them into a niche market instead of organic foods?).
Is it possible that, at least for some products in the USA, non-GM
varieties are already niches, though they don't become niche markets
since there's no labeling?
Yoshie Furuhashi
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