The left-wing foodie elites
have weighed in on the demise of California’s GMO labeling initiative, and the
results aren’t pretty.
The initiative, known as Prop 37,
would have required foods sold in California that contain genetically modified
ingredients to be labeled, although fresh meat would have been exempt. The
initiative was defeated, 53 percent to 47 percent.
“The Food Movement Takes a
Beating” screamed the headline on Mark Bittman’s Nov. 11 column in The
New York Times. “Prop 37 Defeat Reveals a ‘Food Movement’ that Is Still
Half Baked,” added Jason
Mark in the online Earth Island Journal.
Tom Philpott’s analysis in
the liberal magazine Mother Jones came complete with a line graph
showing how support for the initiative plummeted—and opposition soared—in the
weeks before Election Day. The initiative failed, Philpott concluded, thanks to
a “slick, relentless, truth-challenged” opposition lobbying campaign that spent
$5 for every one spent by supporters.
“Money, lies and mistakes
crushed the forward-thinking votes in California,” added Bittman, “but these
are battles lost in a war that will (still) be won. The notions that we need to
know what’s in our food and that food should not be harmful have not been
defeated.”
HOTH thinks the California
electorate simply saw the light in the end. With no evidence that foods
containing GMOs are, in fact, harmful, how could anyone vote for Prop 37?
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