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View Poll Results: How will you vote on Prop 37 (GMO Labeling)
YES 34 64.15%
NO 18 33.96%
Undecided 1 1.89%
Voters: 53. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-26-2012, 02:59 PM
 
Location: SCV
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I'm happy to see this on the ballot, and I'll be voting YES. Recent reports show this will be a tight one, I'm just curious how the members here will be voting.
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Old 10-26-2012, 03:31 PM
 
Location: Oakland, CA
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The U.S. is THE ONLY WESTERN NATION that does not label generically modified food products. We have a right to know that the produce we're eating contains poisons that rupture the stomachs of insects that eat them.

Yes on 37.
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Old 10-26-2012, 06:32 PM
 
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Voting YES.

More info on this proposition:
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.ph...red_Food_(2012)
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Old 10-26-2012, 06:40 PM
 
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NO!

We are already completely in the shi**er fiscally. I refuse to vote for initiatives on the ballot that will put us further in the hole.
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Old 10-26-2012, 07:04 PM
 
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Great idea, crappy bill.
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Old 10-27-2012, 11:05 PM
 
Location: Where they serve real ale.
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All that will change is a tiny "the product may contain GMO products" and that will be that.
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Old 10-28-2012, 01:32 AM
 
Location: Sacramento, Placerville
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NO!

We are already completely in the shi**er fiscally. I refuse to vote for initiatives on the ballot that will put us further in the hole.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who is curious, so explain to use how adding "GMO" on product packaging is going to have anymore of a financial impact than listing the ingredients and nutritional information on the side of a can, jar or box.
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Old 10-28-2012, 02:14 AM
 
Location: San Francisco, CA
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I will absolutely be voting for this.

There is only one reason to vote against it, and that is to pander to big corporations for their convenience of their profit. They'll make plenty. Corporate apologists are throwing up a ton of false arguments, like how it would increase your grocery bill by $400 a year. That "fact" unrealistically assumes that food producers would switch to certified organic / non-GMO food rather than comply with the labeling, which is a classic smokescreen in order to misleadingly balloon that cost estimate and scare people. It's bull****, and I'm smart enough to see through it.

GMO labeling laws exist in most other first-world nations, and big agro-business is not exactly losing money over there. I have a right to know what they're trying to cram down my throat for the sake of their profit.
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Old 10-28-2012, 06:54 AM
 
Location: So Ca
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Great idea, crappy bill.
Ditto.
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Old 11-01-2012, 01:30 AM
 
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CA owes it to the rest of the country to pass this bill, since no other state is putting it to vote this election. Once it passes there it will trickle down to other states in the future. America is one of the only highly advanced countries that doesn't already mandate this labeling on food. It's common sense, why wouldn't you want to know what's in the food you are about to eat? Even if you were a person that honestly didn't care what they ate, why wouldn't you want to allow someone else that does care, the right to know what's in the food they buy? There are countries where GMOs are outright banned, all this bill is asking for is a damn label on them. European and Asian countries passed similar bills a decade ago yet docile, ignorant, obese America lags behind as usual.
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