(NaturalSociety) Now here’s a pot calling a kettle black. Congress members declared outright and out loud that they believe Americans are too stupid to read GMO labels were they to be mandatory. This was an important ‘conclusion’ made at the close of a meeting of the House Agriculture Committee this past week.
It wasn’t just a few folks who think Americans aren’t bright enough to read a label. Members of the subcommittee on Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture, as well as their four experts said that the efforts of biotech to supply GMO crops to the world were successful, and that American people over-react to food which has been called ‘unhealthy.’
If this doesn’t get you steaming mad enough to write some letters to your Congress members with some very fierce vocabulary words that few of them likely understand – like ‘carcinogenic proclivity,’ or ‘plurality of diseases and environmental damage,’ or try this one on for size, ‘unconstitutionality of poisoning masses of the proletariat’ – then I don’t know what will.
They even said that planting GMO has reduced the amount of pesticides used – completely ignoring that herbicide use is through the roof. Their genius technologies have completely backfired – but we are the stupid ones?
Apparently those who want GMO labeling are alarmists, fear-mongering halfwits, and people who thrive on greed and fear. Sounds to me like some of the largest pesticide and seed making companies in the world are guilty of this – not the people. The big six, are, in fact, destroying the entire natural world. This is not fear-mongering; this is the truth. It has been spelled out over and over again. Have these people been living with their heads in the sand as farmers commit suicide, superweeds spread everywhere, and the diseases of livestock fed GMO feed are multiplying?
“I really worry that labeling does more harm than good, that it leads too many people away from it and it diminishes the market for GMOs that are the solution to a lot of the problems we face,” said David Just, a professor at Cornell University and co-director of the Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs. I wonder which Big six payroll this guy is on?
Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) when asked, “What is the biggest drawback? Is it the ignorance of what the product is, just from a lack of education?” said, “It is ignorance of the product, and it’s a general skepticism of anything they eat that is too processed or treated in some way that they don’t quite understand.”
Check out this video of the congressional panel.
Oh, we understand. Many of us are scientists ourselves, or we are farmers that have observed our own animals get sick and have deformed piglets. Or, we are mothers of children mental issues, or we are simply tired of being poisoned by a lying, thieving, capitalistic government.
“Even using long scientific-sounding words make it sound like it’s been grown in a test tube, and people get scared of it,” Just added. Again – the level of idiocy among our representatives is alarming.
Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.) said, “It’s obvious that while the science in the EU is incontrovertible about the health and safety benefits of genetically modified hybrid crops, that because of politics, people are afraid to lead, and inform consumers.”
Guess what Congress – you don’t get to decide what is best for us – we, the people, do. We want labeling, and we don’t care if you think we are a bunch of idiots. Perhaps you should look in the mirror, and dine on some big heaping helpings of GMO corn, soy, and bananas before you go telling us we’re all ignorant about GMOs.
Maybe they’re right. We keep electing these bimbo’s over and over again, not matter how “stupid” they get. WTFO!
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The only imbeciles in this country are the ones that elected the likes of this yahoo.
It doesn’t matter who you elect, they are all the same! They don’t listen to the people who have elected them.
They are getting kick backs and getting their pockets filled from biotechnological industries, GMA and all the other demons who don’t care about the health of humans, the environment and every other living creature and organism on this planet.
America is fighting terrorists in other parts of the world, when we have terrorists committing acts of terrorism each and every day!
Our government should be ashamed of themselves!
American consumers are not stupid and can very well read GMO labels, but the most honest and ethical thing to do is to eradicate GMO’s, pesticides, herbicides etc. ALTOGETHER!
Our federally elected criminals in D.C. (the District of Criminals) do NOT represent us the people in any way, shape, or form. They only answer to their sponsors, owners, and controllers — most of which are among the world’s most powerful and most evil corporations, including Monsanto.
Writing to them about anything they are doing TO us, is nearly pointless, as they don’t care. I’ve contacted them plenty of times; and at best their very infrequent responses are nothing more than a form email telling me why they will vote on any particular issue in opposition to the Constitution and our rights.
But as Jon and Aemish have already commented; Americans must be idiots, as voters keep electing these same criminals over and over again. (Either that, or voting is rigged – as has been proven to be the case.)
You tell ’em Christina! Unfortunately, they’re too corrupt to care about the truth. Good article.
Excellent article. It spurred me to call the “shrieker” of the House, who appoints committee bozos, and demand that he replace the science-deniers on the committee. Not that he will or even cares. He’s the type who’d sell you a rat’s nether orifice as a wedding ring. But I called him just for my own integrity.
As most everyone has pointed out, the parties are two wings of one dirty bird, the system is rigged, we have no representation, and the corporations (“people, my friend”) run the government; i.e., we have fascism. The quetion is, what will we DO about it?
Possibly, he only remaining peaceful way is a NATIONWIDE STRIKE, with people not buying or selling or attending or working or doing anything else (as far as possible) that supports the corporatist-fascists. Some insights and actions concerning resistance can be found at Popular Resistance, Deep Green Resistance, et al.
What is this, the Enquirer? Your headliner reads “stupid” a far cry from “ignorant”, stop sensationilizing your reporting to try and make people angrier to do things you think should be done! If you want to change something, first you have to find out what the core problem of that thing is. The core problem in this case is gmo’s. Labeling is nothing but a band-aid, it of itself helps nothing, it’s like giving someone an aspirin who’s dieing of cancer or radiation poisoning. If you have a splinter in your finger what do you do stop the pain? Common sense lady, to rid yourself of whatever ailments you may have you need to “remove” that which is causing the problem. Banning gmo’s, still is not the core problem, banning scientific reasearch and developement that has anything to do with changing natural occuring phenomina, be it food,water, or anything else, that is taken place naturally throughout time is the only thing that will bring an end to man’s perpetual notion that he somehow is more intelligent than mother nature. This holds true in all cases of all things be it political, economical, social, etc.. man is not capable of doing anything of lasting value, but is great at destroying everything he puts his mind and hands to. Our wonderful, ( or what was supposed to be wonderful) future we were told or promised would be back in the 50’s, has arrived, in all it’s glory, weapons of mass destruction, faulty and failing nuclear power plants, total contamination of the soil, water, air, life over-all. Leave it to good old human ingenuity to show us how to slowly or rapidly destroy something, and he’s king of the hill, no ones better at it than him, you, me, her, get the point?
The math, in man’s case was wrong, his ideas and inventions and scheme’s have destroyed and continue to do so, and l
Like in math when the final problem is not correct, one goes back over his work to fing out what was done wrong, where the mathematical error was wrong. And when found corrected, in our case, that would be all the way back before nuclear fusion was allowed to become a reality! To me, the most devastating danger than all else of man’s doing.
They are bimbo’a. They are dishonest, uncaring and unethical criminals!
They won’t listen no matter how many phone calls, letters, emails one sends. The way to target them, to annihilate them is to stop buying their product. Starve the beast by not feeding it! It’s working. Look how the organics market has boomed. Now THAT is becoming bastardized, because of all the companies that are losing money on their conventional, GMO-laden crap. Boycott them, every product, even the organic brands they create… Don’t trust them.
And you’re too stupid to understand there’s no such thing as organic. Never heard of cross contamination?
Guess not.
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