{"id":74704,"date":"2012-10-29T23:08:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T07:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=18919"},"modified":"2012-10-29T23:08:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T07:08:07","slug":"prop-37-and-the-right-to-have-the-government-enforce-your-right-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/29\/prop-37-and-the-right-to-have-the-government-enforce-your-right-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Prop 37 and the right to have the government enforce your right to know"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the election coming up,\u00a0California Proposition 37, Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Engineered Food<\/a>, is on my mind. From Ballotpedia:<\/p>\n

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If Proposition 37 is approved by voters, it will:<\/p>\n

* Require labeling on raw or processed food offered for sale to consumers if the food is made from plants or animals with genetic material changed in specified ways.<\/p>\n

* Prohibit labeling or advertising such food as “natural.”<\/p>\n

* Exempt from this requirement foods that are “certified organic; unintentionally produced with genetically engineered material; made from animals fed or injected with genetically engineered material but not genetically engineered themselves; processed with or containing only small amounts of genetically engineered ingredients; administered for treatment of medical conditions; sold for immediate consumption such as in a restaurant; or alcoholic beverages.”<\/p>\n

James Wheaton, who filed the ballot language for the initiative, refers to it as “The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Michael Eisen has two<\/a> posts<\/a>\u00a0up on this which get the meat of the issue for me. I disagree with Prop 37, though on first blush I think the idea of transparency is radically empowering. Before I get to my reasoning, I want to set aside some ancillary considerations. Some are voting for the measure …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the election coming up,\u00a0California Proposition 37, Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Engineered Food, is on my mind. From Ballotpedia:
\nIf Proposition 37 is approved by voters, it will:
\n* Require labeling on raw or processed food offered for sale …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetic-engineering","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74704"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74759,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74704\/revisions\/74759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}