[RStar]

What gripes me about 37 are the ads.

1) Against: "Dog food needs to be labeled, but not steaks" Duh, cows aren't genetically altered the way plants are.

2) Against: "Don't vote for it because it will cost people $$$ at a time when they can least affor it" I don't think it will have much impact, as it only requires a statement added to the lable, and that will only be needed to be added years down the line so the packaging they have now can be used up, and they will likely need/want to update labels anyway.

3) For: "It is a simple lable change that won't cost them a dime, and we should know if our food is GMO" That's not true as well. They will need to do some work to find out if the ingredient sources have any GMO, and pay someone to re-do their artwork. Maintaining the paperwork for Organic and having seperate storage and processing equipment is why it's so expensive, and if the require that level it could cost a bit. Otherwise, it will cost them something but "won't cost them a dime" sounds like "It will cost them nothing". Yes, it may cost less than a dime for each item, but even one cent per item multiplied by millions of items add up.

And yet, I have no idea if genetically altering plants for human consumption is a bad thing. People and nature have been doing it for as long as we've been around. Cross pollination alters the genes as far as I understand it. Lab gene altering is just a lot faster and predictable.

And I agree with Alex, having to put that statement on the lable will force the manufacturers to change their purchasing of GMOs and kill the marked for those items, and any future work that may come up with plants that will benifit mankind. It's based on fear, will I get cancer from eating a GMO apple? I don't know, but if it sits next to one labled "GMO-Free" I'll pick up the GMO-Free as long as it's not too expensive.

Organic labeled have to be the same price, or cheeper for me to pick them up.