Subject: [permaculture] Fwd: [SANET-MG] There’s Nothing Parochial About the Issue of GMO Food Labeling
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 03:51:41 -0500
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From: Jonathan Latham <jrlatham@bioscienceresource.org>
Date: Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 9:24 PM
Subject: [SANET-MG] There’s Nothing Parochial About the Issue of GMO Food
Labeling
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Dear Friends and Colleagues
Published today (Jan 24th 2017) on *Independent Science News:*
*There’s Nothing Parochial About the Issue of GMO Food Labeling*
by Jonathan Latham, PhD
*Synopsis:* Last week, Michael Pollan, Olivier de Schutter, Mark Bittman
and Ricardo Salvador called GMO labeling “parochial“. They are mistaken.
GMOs are the leading edge of agribusiness strategy in intellectual,
financial, and legal senses. They have enabled huge profits and leveraged
the concentration of the global seed supply. Labeling, on the other hand,
is a mechanism for introducing democracy and the protection of consumer
rights, possibilities that are everywhere in short supply. It should not be
dismissed or diminished.
Please consider sharing this article.
Best wishes
Jonathan
Jonathan Latham, PhD
Executive Director
The Bioscience Resource Project
Ithaca, NY 14850 USA
www.independentsciencenews.org
and
www.bioscienceresource.org
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