Hypocrisy- The Soft Underbelly of Labeling Laws
Here's how you know that GMO labeling laws are just wrong-- protectionist exemptions. In short, labeling promoters will tell you it is a necessary right to know, that GMO-based ingredients are untested, unsafe, and need labels so that they can be avoided. Unless they are products they care about, or influence their state's economy. Somehow those are perfectly fine. Vermont is a wonderful example. The recently-passed laws require foods derived from transgenic means to bear a label indicating their presence. Labeling proponents say that foods using recombinant DNA intermediates are dangerous, untested, and should be banned! EXCEPT... if they are used in foods Vermont makes! Examination of the public draft reveals the hypocrisy. It is written so that it exempts cheese from being labeled. The enzyme chymosin, the main entity of rennet (the concoction that causes milk to curdle) is almost exclusively derived from a transgenic (GMO) intermediate. It used t