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全世界都有转基因食品！
给大家贴一篇文章，这个是纽约时报关于康州已通过在食品上标注是否含有转基因食材法案的报导。
Connecticut Approves Labeling Genetically Modified FoodsBy STEPHANIE STROM
Published: June 3, 2013 Connecticut on Monday became the first state to pass a bill that would require food manufacturers to label products that contain genetically modified ingredients — but only after other conditions are met.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has said he would sign the bill into law, after reaching an agreement with the legislature to include a provision that the law would not take effect unless four other states, at least one of which shares a border with Connecticut, passed similar regulations.
The Connecticut bill also hinges on those states including Northeastern states with a total population of at least 20 million.
“This bill strikes an important balance by ensuring the consumers’ right to know what is in their food while shielding our small businesses from liability that could leave them at a competitive disadvantage,” Mr. Malloy said in a statement issued over the weekend after negotiations on the necessary provisions.
The legislature passed the bill on Monday, 134 to 3.
More than 20 other states are considering labeling laws, including New York, Maine and Vermont. Early polling suggests widespread support for a ballot initiative that would require labeling in Washington, as concern spread about the impact of genetically engineered salmon and apples on two of the state’s marquee businesses.
In 2005, Alaska passed a law requiring the labeling of all genetically engineered fish and shellfish, but Connecticut would become the first state to adopt labeling broadly.
Cathleen Enright, executive vice president for food and agriculture at the Biotechnology Industry Organization, said the industry supported voluntary labeling for genetically engineered ingredients. Dr. Enright noted that the Food and Drug Administration typically required labeling of foods only when issues like food safety, consumer health or nutrition were at stake.
She also said labeling by an individual state might put that state’s industry and businesses at a disadvantage compared with other states.
Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of the Center for Food Safety, called Connecticut’s move an “important first step,” and “a reminder of where the tide is going on this issue.”
Mark Kastel, co-director of the Cornucopia Institute, a liberal farm policy research group, said that while the triggers were unusual, they could work to the labeling movement’s advantage. “The hurdles in the Connecticut bill, if surmounted, would mean a critical mass in the marketplace that would emulate the impacts that would have materialized if California had passed its ballot initiative,” Mr. Kastel said.
Big food and seed companies like Monsanto and Dow spent tens of millions of dollars last fall to help defeat a ballot measure in California that would have required labeling.
But whether other states will go as far as Connecticut is unclear. In New Mexico, the state Senate voted not to adopt the report of its committee recommending labeling, effectively killing the labeling effort there. Efforts in Vermont, Hawaii and Maine have stalled.
And on Monday, the New York labeling bill was defeated in committee after members, including several who were co-sponsors of the legislation, were lobbied intensely by a representative from the Council for Biotechnology Information, a trade group whose members are BASF, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroScience, DuPont Monsanto and Syngenta — all major makers of genetically modified seeds and pesticides that work with them.
Assemblywoman Linda B. Rosenthal, Democrat of Manhattan, said there were more than 40 co-sponsors when it went into the committee. “We had the votes lined up to pass this, and then the lobbyist for Monsanto and the other big seed companies showed up and was speaking to members and calling them and visiting their offices,” she said.
Ms. Rosenthal said she intended to continue to press for a labeling bill in New York.
哪儿都有转基因食品，你可能每天都吃只是还不知道罢了，最后到底对人体有没有影响咱们就听天由命吧。
给大家贴一篇文章，这个是纽约时报关于康州已通过在食品上标注是否含有转基因食材法案的报导。
Connecticut Approves Labeling Genetically Modified FoodsBy STEPHANIE STROM
Published: June 3, 2013 Connecticut on Monday became the first state to pass a bill that would require food manufacturers to label products that contain genetically modified ingredients — but only after other conditions are met.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has said he would sign the bill into law, after reaching an agreement with the legislature to include a provision that the law would not take effect unless four other states, at least one of which shares a border with Connecticut, passed similar regulations.
The Connecticut bill also hinges on those states including Northeastern states with a total population of at least 20 million.
“This bill strikes an important balance by ensuring the consumers’ right to know what is in their food while shielding our small businesses from liability that could leave them at a competitive disadvantage,” Mr. Malloy said in a statement issued over the weekend after negotiations on the necessary provisions.
The legislature passed the bill on Monday, 134 to 3.
More than 20 other states are considering labeling laws, including New York, Maine and Vermont. Early polling suggests widespread support for a ballot initiative that would require labeling in Washington, as concern spread about the impact of genetically engineered salmon and apples on two of the state’s marquee businesses.
In 2005, Alaska passed a law requiring the labeling of all genetically engineered fish and shellfish, but Connecticut would become the first state to adopt labeling broadly.
Cathleen Enright, executive vice president for food and agriculture at the Biotechnology Industry Organization, said the industry supported voluntary labeling for genetically engineered ingredients. Dr. Enright noted that the Food and Drug Administration typically required labeling of foods only when issues like food safety, consumer health or nutrition were at stake.
She also said labeling by an individual state might put that state’s industry and businesses at a disadvantage compared with other states.
Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of the Center for Food Safety, called Connecticut’s move an “important first step,” and “a reminder of where the tide is going on this issue.”
Mark Kastel, co-director of the Cornucopia Institute, a liberal farm policy research group, said that while the triggers were unusual, they could work to the labeling movement’s advantage. “The hurdles in the Connecticut bill, if surmounted, would mean a critical mass in the marketplace that would emulate the impacts that would have materialized if California had passed its ballot initiative,” Mr. Kastel said.
Big food and seed companies like Monsanto and Dow spent tens of millions of dollars last fall to help defeat a ballot measure in California that would have required labeling.
But whether other states will go as far as Connecticut is unclear. In New Mexico, the state Senate voted not to adopt the report of its committee recommending labeling, effectively killing the labeling effort there. Efforts in Vermont, Hawaii and Maine have stalled.
And on Monday, the New York labeling bill was defeated in committee after members, including several who were co-sponsors of the legislation, were lobbied intensely by a representative from the Council for Biotechnology Information, a trade group whose members are BASF, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroScience, DuPont Monsanto and Syngenta — all major makers of genetically modified seeds and pesticides that work with them.
Assemblywoman Linda B. Rosenthal, Democrat of Manhattan, said there were more than 40 co-sponsors when it went into the committee. “We had the votes lined up to pass this, and then the lobbyist for Monsanto and the other big seed companies showed up and was speaking to members and calling them and visiting their offices,” she said.
Ms. Rosenthal said she intended to continue to press for a labeling bill in New York.
哪儿都有转基因食品，你可能每天都吃只是还不知道罢了，最后到底对人体有没有影响咱们就听天由命吧。
这几年关于转基因的事情闹得沸沸扬扬。
其实说实话，我对这个东西不想了解，也不反对。因为无论是论坛里、媒体上，甚至是QQ群里，都有人不遗余力的强推转基因的害处，我不胜其扰，说实话，跟我确实没关系。一来我下定决心，如果不能离开兲朝，我绝对不生养小孩儿，所以，“转基因食品会影响下一代”这种说法和我半毛钱关系都没有。二来，既然有那么多人反对转基因，就说明这个东西本身是存在争议的，有利有弊根本就没弄清楚。就像我们吃的食用油，有的说大厂家也是用地沟油生产，那么我们吃还是不吃？还不是照样吃么？因为我们根本就弄不清楚。三来，转基因确实有害的话，我坚信西方民--------------主国家的良心人士绝不会任由发展！
回头看看，我们每天吃的、喝的、呼吸的、用的，难道就比转基因还安全么？
既然么有能力解决身边的污染，又何苦为难转基因？
其实说实话，我对这个东西不想了解，也不反对。因为无论是论坛里、媒体上，甚至是QQ群里，都有人不遗余力的强推转基因的害处，我不胜其扰，说实话，跟我确实没关系。一来我下定决心，如果不能离开兲朝，我绝对不生养小孩儿，所以，“转基因食品会影响下一代”这种说法和我半毛钱关系都没有。二来，既然有那么多人反对转基因，就说明这个东西本身是存在争议的，有利有弊根本就没弄清楚。就像我们吃的食用油，有的说大厂家也是用地沟油生产，那么我们吃还是不吃？还不是照样吃么？因为我们根本就弄不清楚。三来，转基因确实有害的话，我坚信西方民--------------主国家的良心人士绝不会任由发展！
回头看看，我们每天吃的、喝的、呼吸的、用的，难道就比转基因还安全么？
既然么有能力解决身边的污染，又何苦为难转基因？