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Vicente says

No, I thought I was explicit. Vast majority of Americans look at 2 things

How much is it?

Do I want corn?

You could put IDENTICAL corn in bins right next to each other. $0.99 (GMO), $0.99 (unlabelled) $1.00 (organic). I'd wager you'd see the 2 cheaper corn sell out equal rates, and the more expensive corn less so. *I* want the labelling but I realize I'm a minority. Nobody in my office which is 18 people could give a fuck about organic foods, and I allegedly live in Granola-head country.

Well that's awfully nice of you to decide FOR farmers that slapping confusing labels on their products isn't going to hurt sales, or result in additional costs, or lead to lawsuits. If that were actually true, then none of this would even be an issue. Of course it's not true. So far, the majority of Californians haven't succumb to this lunacy, and voted the measure down.

As for your example of regular corn selling better than "organic" corn, that might be true, but not for the reason you think. Many people don't care about "organics" because they know it's just a bunch of hype. I've read articles that say "organic" food isn't any better for you than regular food. So yes, I would buy what's cheaper. I would pay more for something I think is WORTH more, but I'm not going to pay more for nothing.

And I think the fact that you brought it up is very telling. You (and other organic proponents) say you just want to have "choices", but everything you say and do shows your belief that organic is "better", and your attempts to prosthelytize to that end. The organics industry is making huge amounts of money right now, and are very motivated to smear the competition. They have already succeeded in making "GMO" a dirty word, and now they want to slap that dirty word all over their competitors' products.

zzyzzx says

I'm pretty sure that Mao and Pol Pot were in the committee as well.

Also Professor Moriarty, Jack the Ripper, and Evil Lincoln.