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  1. Stabenow is also one of the people (USDA head Vilsack is another) behind the push to use voluntary quick response (QR) codes on products instead of mandatory, prominent, easily read LABELS that say “made by genetic engineering” or “contains genetically modified ingredients” or the like.

    The QR scam is not only another way for the GMO indusrry to keep us from knowing what’s in our food, it’s also an advertisement and market perk for the ‘smart phone’ industry.

    The QR scam requires that we non-rich people BUY and EXPENSIVE smart phone, learn how to use it, buy an app, learn how to use it, remember to lug the phone to the store, take out the phone, scan the product, be directed (if the computers are working) to essentially an advertising site for the product, wade through tons of ads, and finally learn that the product is or is not GMO. What expensive and useless bull. A prominent, easily read LABEL is what’s needed.

    Moreover, the labels would Not cost the food industry terrible losses. The industry Routinely changes its labels as a normal part of doing biz – “new & improved” – “now contains less X” – “now contains neurotoxic aspartame under a different name” (ok, I made that one up) – and so forth.

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