End of GE Foods by Dec. 2009

[Guest guest]

Jeffry argued in his keynote address at the WAPF conference that the

end of GE foods in America is on the horizon.

He argued that a " tipping point " or critical mass of only several percent of

people is necessary to get large-scale distributors to drop GE all together

because there is no marketing advantage to having them, and there is a

marketing advantage to get that marginal increase of several percent in

sales volume. He backed this up with two examples. In Europe, all the

American fast food and other chains pledged non-GMO voluntarily in response

to the rigorous avoidance of GMO foods on the part of that initial critical

mass (I guess this is before EU wound up banning their import, which I think

is the case). In America, Wal-Mart, Starbucks, and other big names have

pledged non-use of recombinant bovine growth hormone milk.

Over 50% of Americans say they would not eat GE if they were labeled.

believes if 9 out of 10 of them are lying, then labeling would result in the

total demise of GE foods in America.

For (?) years, activists have been pushing the gov't to require labeling.

" What a waste of life. " " Obama says he's going to label GE foods -- I'm not

gonna wait. "

is labeling them himself. He created the Institute for Responsible

Technology:

http://www.responsibletechnology.org/GMFree/Home/index.cfm

Here are all the materials one needs to strictly avoid GE and what you need

if you want to be part of the massive campaign he is launching to make these

avaiable to everyone. If we do the footwork, he believes we can end GE

forever by the end of next year.

Chris

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is a smart guy and I hope he's right but if we stop

buying foods from one " company " because they contain GM ingredients

then buy them organic from another " company " for more money it really

doesn't hurt them because they own both companies! So we prefer one

of their products over another - so you get Mounds instead of Almond

Joy - you're still not really causing any competition. All the major

brands of organic now are owned by the same corporations that own the

non-organic brands. Even Burt's Bees has been bought out.

>

> Jeffry argued in his keynote address at the WAPF conference

that the

> end of GE foods in America is on the horizon.

>

> He argued that a " tipping point " or critical mass of only several

percent of

> people is necessary to get large-scale distributors to drop GE all

together

> because there is no marketing advantage to having them, and there

is a

> marketing advantage to get that marginal increase of several

percent in

> sales volume. He backed this up with two examples. In Europe, all

the

> American fast food and other chains pledged non-GMO voluntarily in

response

> to the rigorous avoidance of GMO foods on the part of that initial

critical

> mass (I guess this is before EU wound up banning their import,

which I think

> is the case). In America, Wal-Mart, Starbucks, and other big names

have

> pledged non-use of recombinant bovine growth hormone milk.

>

> Over 50% of Americans say they would not eat GE if they were

labeled.

> believes if 9 out of 10 of them are lying, then labeling would

result in the

> total demise of GE foods in America.

>

> For (?) years, activists have been pushing the gov't to require

labeling.

> " What a waste of life. " " Obama says he's going to label GE foods --

I'm not

> gonna wait. "

>

> is labeling them himself. He created the Institute for

Responsible

> Technology:

>

> http://www.responsibletechnology.org/GMFree/Home/index.cfm

>

> Here are all the materials one needs to strictly avoid GE and what

you need

> if you want to be part of the massive campaign he is launching to

make these

> avaiable to everyone. If we do the footwork, he believes we can

end GE

> forever by the end of next year.

>

> Chris

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

On 11/11/08, haecklers <haecklers@...> wrote:

> is a smart guy and I hope he's right but if we stop

> buying foods from one " company " because they contain GM ingredients

> then buy them organic from another " company " for more money it really

> doesn't hurt them because they own both companies! So we prefer one

> of their products over another - so you get Mounds instead of Almond

> Joy - you're still not really causing any competition. All the major

> brands of organic now are owned by the same corporations that own the

> non-organic brands. Even Burt's Bees has been bought out.

I don't think it works like that, and empiracally, made his

case. Major distributors went non-GMO in Europe, and it essentially

cut GMO's totally out of Europe before the EU ban. Wal-Mart et al.

went non-rBGH and rBGH will soon be history. Large distributors will

pledge non-GMO in response to consumer demand, and cut out whole

product lines. The fact that the company will not be *hurt* because

it owns an organic line does not change the fact that the GMO line

will no longer be profitable.

Besides which, the fact that some mega-corporation owns an organic

label does not mean that it owns all organic products. If the aim

were to make the corporation go down -- and it is not, as there is no

purpose in that vis-a-vis getting rid of GE foods -- then one merely

need adjust the campaign to boycott owners of GE lines. But again,

that isn't necessary. European arms of Burger King got rid of GE

foods in response to consumer demand despite the fact that Burger King

in America still carries them. The Europeans did not need to boycott

BK altogether because they still owned outlets using GE in order to

get GE out of Europe.

Chris