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GMO advocate: Science always wins in the end

shopperGMO labeling initiatives will be on ballots next week in two states—Colorado and Oregon.

They are just the latest efforts by anti-GMO activists to require the labeling of foods containing genetically modified ingredients.

Bill Horan, a farmer from Rockwell City, Iowa and chairman of the organization Truth About Trade and Technology, says although the anti-GMO movement makes a lot of noise, he’s convinced that science always wins in the end.

“We’ve had three decades of GMOs being produced—and not one human being anywhere in the world has ever been harmed by GMOs after three decades,” Horan says. “The other thing that gives me confidence is that the activist groups have literally spend hundreds of millions of dollars trying to find one thing wrong with GMOs—and they have not found a single thing wrong yet.”

Horan says once consumers learn the facts about GMOs, their concerns are usually alleviated.

“Consumers will understand that this is a technology that’s good, it’s safe, it’s good for the environment and good for rural places—and it will win out in the end.”

AUDIO: Bill Horan

A recent poll conducted by the Oregonian newspaper showed that Oregon’s GMO labeling initiative is trailing 48 to 42 percent among likely voters.  That’s a wide swing from an Oregon Public Broadcasting poll back in July that put support for the initiative at 77 percent with only 12 percent expressing opposition.

Supporters of the Colorado labeling initiative admit that they also face an uphill battle. Larry Cooper, campaign chair for Right to Know Colorado, says they have not been able to compete with the “massive contributions” from labeling opponents such as Monsanto, Kraft Foods and PepsiCo.

  • If you are so sure there is absolutely nothing wrong with either growing or consuming GMOs, then stand aside and let nature take its course – the American public want to know what is in and where their food comes from.
    Stop fighting it and label the GMOs.

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