{"id":15678,"date":"2012-06-27T00:05:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T05:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15678"},"modified":"2012-06-26T21:03:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T02:03:18","slug":"california-primed-to-make-bad-decision-for-good-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/27\/california-primed-to-make-bad-decision-for-good-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"California primed to make bad decision for &#8220;good&#8221; reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s already bad economic situation could be made even worse by mandating that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freakonomics.com\/2012\/06\/22\/how-california%E2%80%99s-gmo-labeling-law-could-limit-your-food-choices-and-hurt-the-poor\/\" target=\"_blank\">genetically modified foods<\/a> be labelled to call attention to themselves:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The American Medical Association resolved this week that \u201cthere is no scientific justification for special labeling of bioengineered foods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The association has long-held that nothing about the process of recombinant DNA makes genetically engineered (GE) crop plants inherently more dangerous to the environment or to human health than the traditional crop plants that have been deliberately but slowly bred for human purposes for millennia. It is a view shared by the National Academy of Sciences, the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N., the European Commission, and countless other national science academies and non-governmental organizations.<\/p>\n<p>And yet Californians will consider on their November ballots a law that mandates cigarette-like labeling of food derived from GE plants. Proponents claim to promote opportunities for consumers to make informed choices about the foods they eat. But to build support for the measure, they have played on consumer fears about a promising technology that is nevertheless prone to \u201cFrankenfoods\u201d demagoguery. If successful, they may well imperil the ability of Californians, and consumers around the world, to choose a technology that scientists contend could end hunger and malnutrition, lift hundreds of millions from poverty, and reduce the environmental impact of feeding an evermore populous world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s already bad economic situation could be made even worse by mandating that genetically modified foods be labelled to call attention to themselves: The American Medical Association resolved this week that \u201cthere is no scientific justification for special labeling of bioengineered foods.\u201d The association has long-held that nothing about the process of recombinant DNA makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,74,84,66,16,13],"tags":[242,35,827,39,661],"class_list":["post-15678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-food","category-government","category-health-science","category-science","category-usa","tag-biotechnology","tag-california","tag-genetics","tag-junkscience","tag-regulation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-44S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15678"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15681,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15678\/revisions\/15681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}