Should There Be GMO Labeling in the USA?

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LINKS REFERENCED IN THIS PODCAST

Follow our GMO Labeling Research
https://walkamileproject.com/tag/right-to-know/

Washington Post Fact Check on GMO Labeling Study
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/04/06/would-gmo-labeling-requirement-cost-500-more-in-groceries-per-family-a-year/

Corn Refiners Association Study
http://corn.org/cost-impact-of-vermonts-gmo-labeling-law-on-consumers-nationwide/

Consumers Union on the Corn Refiners Assoc. Study
http://consumersunion.org/news/corn-refiners-study-drastically-overstates-gmo-labeling-impact-on-cost/

Watch the Senate Ag Committee Meeting
http://www.agriculture.senate.gov/hearings/biotechnology-labeling-solutions-markup

Peter Jennings 2004 Investigation on Subsidies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3kRgetwJ3I

Farm Susbsidies Data
http://farm.ewg.org/region.php?fips=00000&progcode=total

USDA Farm Census Data
http://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2012/Full_Report/Volume_1,_Chapter_1_US/usv1.pdf

FDA — Statement of Policy: Foods Derived From New Plant Varieties
http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/Biotechnology/ucm096095.htm

SAFETY EVALUATION OF FOODS DERIVED BY MODERN BIOTECHNOLOGY
http://www.oecd.org/science/biotrack/41036698.pdf

GMO TRUTH #9 HIGHLIGHTS

0:32 — Thank You’s…

1:19 — GMO Labeling stays front and center

1:40 — Take Action

1:57 — Join The Walk a Mile Project

2:38 — Do we deserve GMO Labeling?

3:24 — A different take on the situation

5:08 — The Cost of Labeling

5:40 — The Pinocchio Test

6:30 — Corn Refiners Association says $1050 per family

7:15 — Consumers Union refutes the dollar figures

8:04 — The Senate meets. The Senate misleads.

10:07 — USDA’s 2011 study offers a different perspective

11:11 — Campbell’s Soup provides some clarity

12:08 — 64 other countries already label

12:35 — 4 new words on a can

13:33 — Something to hide and fear mongering?

14:34 — GMO labeling caveats

16:49 — America’s free market

17:39 — Government subsidies in farming

19:02 — Monsanto’s GMO crop targets

20:53 — GMOs and the free market

22:55 — Substantial Equivalence, the free market killer

26:45 — Substantial equivalence and GMO testing/safety

28:25 — A scientific consensus?

30:00 — The studies start to come in… but 6 years after GMOs were already on the market?

31:39 — Are GMOs different from other genetic modifications we’ve done for centuries?

33:20 — We can’t put up with lying from our Senators and Representatives

34:40 — “You keep using that word…”

35:45 — Taking back the free market

36:58 — The GMO Truth on labeling

38:44 — Hit your senators with the GMO Truth!

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