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are you kidding? the organic food industry has exploded, 1 billion in 1990, 50 billion in 2010 ,and expected to be over 100 billion by 2015. its one of the fastest growing big bizes around. There are thousands of lobbying groups. Are you seriously telling me you have not heard anything from the organic food industry yet? They are all over the place. Have you been on social media in the last decade? Who do you think is leading the anti-gmo charge? just follow the money.
And that would've had severe consequences for the economy.
Like the devastating impact that the sequester was going to have? Obama and Reid knew this was in there. They could have stopped it if they had wanted to.
Does it bother me that Obama signed this? Yes. Yes it does. I'm not really a "liberal" nor an "Obama voter", but I do have high expectations for the man.
But look at who pushed the damned thing -- a Missouri Republican. This makes Democrats look inept, sure, but it makes Republicans look evil.
I'm not saying you had any credibility to begin with, don't get me wrong -- but you're squarely in negative territory if you think the blame lies solely on the president.
You mean like the "Bush's War" screams from the left?
Go do some research. When the government took over "organic" the big food producers bought up all those small organic companies and kept their names. The big food producers were able to get the USDA to "modify" the meaning of organic.
Non organic ingredients are allowed in "certified organic" food thanks to the USDA and big food lobbyists.
"Fresh" and "natural" are what you want to go for today by the small farmers that operate organic but cannot pay the price to get that "organic" label anymore.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/bu...pagewanted=all
Over the last decade, since federal organic standards have come to the fore, giant agri-food corporations like these and others — Coca-Cola, Cargill, ConAgra, General Mills, Kraft and M&M Mars among them — have gobbled up most of the nation’s organic food industry. Pure, locally produced ingredients from small family farms? Not so much anymore.
Go do some research. When the government took over "organic" the big food producers bought up all those small organic companies and kept their names. The big food producers were able to get the USDA to "modify" the meaning of organic.
Non organic ingredients are allowed in "certified organic" food thanks to the USDA and big food lobbyists.
"Fresh" and "natural" are what you want to go for today by the small farmers that operate organic but cannot pay the price to get that "organic" label anymore.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/bu...pagewanted=all
Over the last decade, since federal organic standards have come to the fore, giant agri-food corporations like these and others — Coca-Cola, Cargill, ConAgra, General Mills, Kraft and M&M Mars among them — have gobbled up most of the nation’s organic food industry. Pure, locally produced ingredients from small family farms? Not so much anymore.
But they are not anti-GMO. Their products use GMO. They are pro-GMO.
Exactly!
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