I have long suspected something like this.\u00a0 The more I look into the anti-genetically modified organism movement, the more it reminds of other pseudoscience movements (creationism, anti-vaccine, anti-global warming, homeopathy, etc).\u00a0 In this case, it’s because, it appears that there will be some profit for non-GMO using farmers, distributors, etc. if a GMO labeling bill passes.<\/p>\n
I’m sure that everyone has heard about the autism\/MMR vaccine link.\u00a0 It turns out that every single report, web-site, editorial, etc that tried to link autism and the MMR vaccine basically came from one source, a study done by one Andrew Wakefield in the late 90s.\u00a0 In 2004, Brian Deer published an expose <\/a>of Wakefield’s work.\u00a0 In that expose, he showed that Wakefield made up data about his 7 patients.\u00a0 He was also provided money by a law firm.\u00a0 Finally Wakefield was developing his own measles vaccine and the regular MMR vaccine was a competing product.<\/p>\n The entire autism\/MMR Vaccine scare was caused by one man looking to make a profit.\u00a0 Unfortunately, like most things in this internet age, the meme takes on a life of its own and children have died because of not getting vaccines<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now, we seem to have some evidence that the labeling GMOs movement<\/a> is similar.\u00a0 Joseph Mercola is a California businessman who has contributed 1.1 million dollars to support the California effort to label GMOs.\u00a0 He has stated that the labels will make 85% of people not buy them… thereby increasing the purchase of organic and non-GMO produce.\u00a0 Oh yeah, Mercola is also a doctor and has one of the largest internet doctoring sites… which has been censured by the FDA for making false claims<\/a>.<\/p>\n He is joined by Nature’s Path Foods, The Organic Consumers Fund, and Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, who have each contributed no less than $300,000.\u00a0 Now, why would a natural foods supplier and an organic foods group be spending money to label GMOs?\u00a0 Oh wait, I think I just answered my own question.<\/p>\n I’ve taken a fair number of graduate business classes.\u00a0 I work for a major corporation.\u00a0 I know business people.\u00a0 And they never spend money that they don’t have to.\u00a0 However, if there’s a chance for profit, then money will be spent.<\/p>\n If Mercola is correct and 85% of people stop buying foods with the GMO label, then who picks up the slack?\u00a0 Oh yeah, the natural and organic food suppliers.<\/p>\n It’s not a smoking gun, but it sure is a thing that makes me go, hmmmm…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have long suspected something like this.\u00a0 The more I look into the anti-genetically modified organism movement, the more it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,51,11,45],"tags":[33,30,52,15],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-gmo","category-skepticism","category-society","tag-anti-gm","tag-gm-food","tag-mercola","tag-skepticism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/smilodonsretreat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}