Comment Re:Alternative? (Score 1) 377
When you make the label binary, then what you are really telling the consumer is that all that matters is whether there are GMOs in there or not, and that only makes any sense for people that just think that GMOs are bad in principle.
I think that is exactly what most pro-label people wanted. A binary choice out of principle.
Among people I talk to, and I don't know many that believe GMO's are unhealthy. The main concerns I heard were stuff about patenting food being a bad idea, GMO's leading to higher use of pesticide, corporate control over non-seeding plants, mono-culture crops having increased chance of mass die off if a new disease or pest infects them, etc...
So very much an "in principle" label.
Most people that are serious about sustainable food already know that labels like 'organic' don't mean much without some extra research. GMO would just be one more label. Just a starting place. If you want the specifics about whether GMO X is good/bad, you better do some reading.