This is why you Vote NO

[Dave_L]

I feel like I live in a bizarro world. All my friends are for this. "I want to know whats in my food!" "I dont see one reason why this is bad."

You realize this wont apply to restaurants and a lot of other places you eat? It doesn't apply to what you feed the animals? Etc.

"Well they can't make restaurant owners chase down all their suppliers and confirm they're non-GMO. That'd put all the little guys out of business."

So...you're against GMO's only when it's in the grocery store on certain selective products? Got it.

When you look at the organizations for this and against this, that should paint the picture.

For:

• Alfalfa's Market^[7]
• Annie's Homegrown
• Berry Patch Farms
• Boulder Brands
• Boulder Family Farms
• Chipotle Mexican Grill^[8]
• Daiya Foods
• Door-To-Door Organics
• Durango Natural Foods Co-op
• FoodShed Productions
• Four Sisters Farm
• Frontier Co-op
• Hain Celestial Group
• Indian Ridge Farm
• Julia’s Kitchen
• Justin's Nut Butter
• KeHE
• Lucky's Market
• Natural Grocers
• Nature's Path
• Nutiva
• Presence Marketing
• Quinn Popcorn
• Ranch Foods Direct
• Rocky Mountain Farmers Union
• Silver Hills Bakery
• Snack Out Loud
• Stonyfield Farm
• The Crunchy Grocer
• UNFI
• Whole Foods Market

Against:

• Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce^[11]
• Colorado Corn Growers Association
• Colorado Bioscience Association
• Colorado Farm Bureau
• Colorado Beverage Association
• Colorado Cattlemen’s Association
• US Beet Sugar Association
• NebCo Sugarbeet Growers Association
• Rocky Mountain Food Industry Association
• Rocky Mountain Agribusiness Association
• American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists
• Western Sugar Cooperative
• Colorado Dairy Farmers
• Farmers Alliance for Integrated Resources
• Progressive 15
• Front Range Sustainable Agriculture, Inc.
• FUEL – Colorado
• Garfield County Farm Bureau
• Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
• John B. Shawcroft Ranches LLLP
• Kit Carson County Farm Bureau
• Kiowa County Farm Bureau
• The Amalgamated Sugar Company
• US Custom Harvesters
• Mesa County Farm Bureau
• Prowers County Farm Bureau
• Rocky Ford Growers Association
• Sedgwick County Farm Bureau
• Sipe Farms LLC
• Sundance Farms
• Colorado Sugarbeet Growers Association
• Representing 226 members
• Talbott’s Mountain Gold LLLP
• Representing 100 Colorado jobs
• Grocery Manufacturers Association
• Colorado Renewable Energy Investment Company
• American Sugarbeet Growers Association
• Bauder Farms LLC
• Beet Sugar Development Foundation
• Brighton Prime Rib Club
• Clay Land and Livestock
• Club 20
• COG II Farms LLC
• Colorado State Grange
• Colorado Ag News Network
• Colorado Agri-Women
• Colorado Association of Distributors
• Colorado Association of Wheat Growers
• Colorado Competitive Council

[Great-Kazoo]

Interesting they are against the measure, Alfalfa's Market^[7], as Whole Wallet took alfa's over , closed them down or changed the name.

[roberth]

Send me the current label in .jpg format and I'll add the GMO notification for $1 of my time and send it back to you.
Labels are very often changed. It's not like they are individually hand painted on each container.

I'd kinda like to know what I'm consuming, but that's just me I guess.

Find your own label.

I already know what is in my food...my fork.

[davsel]

If GMO is so great, why do they not want to publicize it?
Why don't they have stores with banners proclaiming "We only sell GMO food !"
Start a chain: "GMO Foods" and put them next door to "Whole Foods."

I'm undecided, but skeptical.

[Bailey Guns]

When you look at the organizations for this and against this, that should paint the picture.

Yep...in HD.

[Dave_L]

I'm undecided, but skeptical.

I agree. The things I find skeptical are the selective approach to this and society's general lack of understanding of what it takes to feed this nation. This isn't a family of 4 we're talking about. Im sure we'd all love it if everything was natural but in todays "I want the most I can get, for the cheapest and I want it yesterday" world, it's impossible.

[crays]

I feel like I live in a bizarro world. All my friends are for this. "I want to know whats in my food!" "I don't see one reason why this is bad."

After you ask them if they know all the artificial flavorings in their StealBux coffee drink, then just tell them: If you truly want to know what's in your food, grow it yourself.

[davsel]

Find your own label.

I already know what is in my food...my fork.

Didn't mean "You" personally

Most of my food comes from our garden, or is shot on our land.
My wife does the grocery shopping, and much of it comes from Whole Foods or that other dirty hippy Trader Joe's. I know there is a lot of BS and extra expense there, but we can afford it, and I don't have to go grocery shopping.

I sometimes go for the fun of it though...

[Great-Kazoo]

I agree. The things I find skeptical are the selective approach to this and society's general lack of understanding of what it takes to feed this nation. This isn't a family of 4 we're talking about. Im sure we'd all love it if everything was natural but in todays "I want the most I can get, for the cheapest and I want it yesterday" world, it's impossible.

Remember you're dealing with a society that believes hunting is awful and not necessary. They also believe when asked where does the steak you get from the store come from? Say the back of the store. OR from that room where they're cutting my roast for me.

[roberth]

Didn't mean "You" personally

Most of my food comes from our garden, or is shot on our land.
My wife does the grocery shopping, and much of it comes from Whole Foods or that other dirty hippy Trader Joe's. I know there is a lot of BS and extra expense there, but we can afford it, and I don't have to go grocery shopping.

I'm a little slow when it comes to that but I finally figured it out.

NICE! I wish I had my own garden but I chose poorly living in a townhome.