Thread: McDonalds

Thanks for explaining this view point a bit more... and I share your concern for the pesticides as well. I can see how this would create a burden for sellers. For example, how the individual retailers would #1)have time to read every single label much less being able to "insure" that each is correct.

But what about those that allow sellers to label their products GMO - free? I think that would shift the burden back to the sellers -- specifically those that wish to make that claim. I wish I had more time to research.

Originally Posted by MissyJ

Thanks for explaining this view point a bit more... and I share your concern for the pesticides as well. I can see how this would create a burden for sellers. For example, how the individual retailers would #1)have time to read every single label much less being able to "insure" that each is correct.

But what about those that allow sellers to label their products GMO - free? I think that would shift the burden back to the sellers -- specifically those that wish to make that claim. I wish I had more time to research.

Right now, I could raise bean sprouts in cleaning solution and label them as "organic" or "all natural" if I wanted to. It's not up to the store to tell me how to label my product. Of course they may not buy another batch from me if they don't sell well or if people complain about getting sick. But pretty much everyone knows that those labels are meaningless without a certification behind it. There are agencies that will certify that your product is organic or GMO-free, and then you put their logo on your product. If those things are important to you as a consumer, then you look for the certification in addition to the words. This law is going to turn it around and say, unless your product doesn't have any GMO in it, you have to label that it does or might. I just don't see the need for that, especially when the accountability is put on the retailer, not the producer, and when there is no apparent limit to the costs that could be won in a lawsuit over labeling, no injury or illness needed.