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Do you like spending money? Well, if you vote Yes on proposition 37, you just might have to. If you vote yes on proposition 37, food will have to be labeled. The labeling of food could increase food prices, because farmers and food distributors will have to pay extra money to label their produce. If you vote No on proposition 37, food will not be required to be labeled. Therefore, if you don't like to spend money, then you should vote No on proposition 37.

Food these days are put under the category of genetically engineered. If it isn't organic it is technically called "genetically altered". People think that genetically altered foods have mysterious and dangerous chemicals in them. When in reality, it is just an ordinary crop with changed DNA. Genetically altered foods have been tested and deemed safe. So, there is no need to freak out.

Even if people wanted didn't want to eat genetically altered foods, because they think its "dangerous", people have the choice to buy organics. Now, although organics are usually a little bit more expensive to buy, you can save your self the time, stress, and money if you just bought genetically altered food. They are safe, they are cheaper, and they can be even more cheaper if you vote no on Proposition 37.

Followers and non-followers of Prop 37! I urge you to vote 'No' on Proposition 37, which is the right to label genetically-modified foods in our grocery stores. Based on information provided by the main website of 'No on Prop 37' here are several VERY important reasons of why you should vote 'No' on this proposition.

TOP REASONS:

1. Voting 'Yes' will cause our food products in food markets to increase in costs and of course, who would want that? We gladly want food prices to DECREASE not INCREASE.

2. It will not file or demand for any lawsuits towards farmers and their families, but by voting 'Yes' it will. Just think about that one.

3. Prop 37 interferes with the laws of science that these foods are safe

4. This proposition has confusing way of labeling, such as dog food with meat would require a label, but meat for human consumption does not.

The opposers of prop 37 are mostly well-known brand companies, such as Coca-Cola, Kelloggs, Nestle, Pepsico, etc, who greatly support the 'No' side with 23 million dollars in the bucket and rising. These companies and others believe that voting 'No' would be the right choice for this state and its benefactors, due to their food products being made in a non-organic way that still gains popularity and profit. Overall, I highly encourage you to vote 'No' on Prop 37 and let our food be GMO label-free in our grocery markets. Thank You. 

               According to Yes on Proposition 37 Right to Know website, the current issue with California's population is that more and more people want to know what they are eating and if their food has been genetically modified. Proposition 37 intends to change the labeling on the food so that people know what ingredients have been used to make the food that they are buying. The labels on the food would be made up of what is included in the food. It would look something like we see today at the back of our cereal boxes or chips, or even small things like granola bars. The GMO facts would be exactly like nutrition facts but located somewhere else on a box, and it would just say what has been used to make the food, and what is mixed in the food. If Proposition 37 passes then it would require GMO Facts in addition to nutrition facts on a box of food. For instance if cherry tomatoes have been genetically modified with an Antarctic fish (because Antarctic fish with stand cold temperatures) to not freeze in the cold of the nights, then the GMO label would say something like DNA of “name of fish” included in tomatoes.

       Now why would we have to go through all this? Because people want to know what they are eating. I think that people shouldn't be worried about the food because we have been eating it for years now and no health issues have been reported from GMO's. Before this kind of food goes out to our local supermarket stores the farmers and the chemists inspect this food very carefully, and make sure that it is safe and healthy to eat. 

       Now the main reason why we should vote "No" on proposition 37 is because we will loose a lot of money by voting "Yes". If proposition 37 passes everything will have to be labeled, the farmers will have to label everything that comes out of their farms, because of that the food prices will rise because the farmers will need money for labeling GMO's on the food. According to No on Prop 37 website the food prices will nearly double from what they are right now. Through this low-income families will be struggling to feed their families, and this also means that any family's grocery bills would go up dramatically. This would not only affect California but it would affect the United States as a whole because California is such a big food supplier on the east coast. 

       The choice stands behind you pick a side.

According to Carighttoknow, there are three reasons why to vote “yes” on labeling genetically engineered foods.

We have the right to know what’s in food. They state that over 90% of Americans want to know if their food is genetically engineered or not. It would be convenient, but it is not necessary and/or worth the money to label them. This day in age, money should be spent smart, and useless labels are not a smart way to spend money.

The second reason they talk about is that they state that the United States does not require a food safety test, but health administrations do so anyway. They say that while they do long term tests on the food they should label food. But the fact is, they have already done the tests and it is COMPLETELY safe, for humans. As for other creatures, I do not know.

My final say is that labeling would cost the agricultural industry a lot of money. The cost of society’s unawareness can be costly and that money can be used towards something more useful. A thought for the future, spread the word about saving money and letting the world know of genetically modifying food.

What do we eat? Food of course, we eat fruits and vegetables from the grocery store every day. We buy what we like and avoid what we dislike. Most kids would say “food is food right?” Everyone has been eating genetically modified food for years especially things like corn and soy according to “The Top Ten Genetically Engineered Food Crops.” So what if food grows faster or looks a bit different? That does not mean the food if more dangerous than any other food you have already eaten.  

So you go to a pizza place and order a combination pizza do you ask for every ingredient label or every food item on your pizza? If you don’t care what type of fruits and vegetables is on your pizza and in your drinks why would you care what you buy from the grocery store? Well Prop 37 wants all the ingredients of every fruit and vegetable to be labeled. They also believe none of the genetically altered food should be able to be called natural. But they also state that all restaurants and beverages, except soy milk, are exempt from prop 37 according to “Genetically Engineered Foods. Labeling.”

Lots of farmers are worried about this prop being passed because they think it will open them up to get sued, having people claim their product was not properly labeled or that it made them sick because it was genetically altered. They are also worried because the cost on their food products will also rise in grocery stores. 

The Yes on Proposition 37 declares that if this proposition does not pass, California will continue to be unaware of genetically-modified foods and their unconfirmed safety. The supporters of Prop 37 inform that labeling genetically-modified foods decreases the concern of safety in our grocery markets.

  According to the ‘3 Reason to Label Genetically Engineered Foods’ article site by Stacy Malkan states,

   1. We have a RIGHT what’s in our food

   2. Gambling with our health and children’s health

   3. GMO’s cause serious environmental problems

The Food and Drug Administration reveals that at least half of our population desires the right to know what are in their foods. To the supporters of this food frenzy debate, they strongly disagree with the continuous procedure of taking the risk of eating food without knowing if it will harm our body or the environment when producing genetically-engineered products.

   Overall, the people for Yes on Prop 37 feel that citizens will vote YES instead of NO on this proposition, so that this state of California will know the use for genetically-engineered foods, along with the crops and nutrients that are in them.

-Cathleen A.

Why we would say NO on it?

According to the secretary of state official website it says that if we say yes on prop 37 it means we have the right to know what is in our food what food has been genetically modified. That does not sound harming at all but behind it there are problems like these

Prop. 37 is a deceptive,

deeply flawed food labeling scheme,

just full of special interest.  

Prop. 37 would make new government bureaucracy costing taxpayers millions, it also authorize expensive shakedown lawsuits against farmers and small businesses, and increase family grocery bills by hundreds of dollars per year.

 If the companies start labeling everything they put in the food, that will cost them a lot, so to make it even they will rise the prices on the foods that we buy every day.  That’s why our group decided to choose the no side.

Why people say YES on it?

People say yes on prop 37 because all these commercials are going around on TV that we have to know what we are eating; the TV stations are just bombarding people to get their votes. So the people say that it’s better to say “Yes” because we will know what we are eating, and that is their negative message. The problem is there is not enough commercials going around letting the people know what would happen if they say “No” it. People believe that labeling will make things better, because they will know what is in the food that they are eating, and that is the main problem is labeling a box will not change anything, because we have been eating those foods for a long periods of time now. So what is the point of wasting money if we are in debt anyways?

Yarik P.

Source Info

PROPOSITION 37

Many of you might be wondering what is proposition 37, and what the real meaning behind it is. Prop 37 is all about genetically engineered foods; it requires labeling of food sold to consumers made from plants or animals with genetic material changed in specified ways. Proposition 37 prohibits marketing such food, or other processed food, as “natural.”(Secretary of State, Debra Bowens) In other words genetically modified foods have to be all repacked in new packages in companies who make genetically modified foods.

What are GMO’s (Genetically Modified Foods)?

According to Google GMO is an organism into which has been inserted—through genetic engineering—one or more genes from an outside source (either from the same species or from an entirely different species) that contains coding for desired characteristics, such as herbicide resistance or an antibacterial compound.

An example of this process would be imagine that a farmer bought a field. The next day he planted tomatoes in that field. He waited for the tomatoes to grow, and when he was about to collect them all of a sudden there came around a cold night and the tomatoes got all cold and wrinkled, which can’t be put out for sale anymore. The scientist saw this problem happening a lot over a certain period of time, and decided to do something about it. They though what if we find something that can withstand cold temperatures and put the DNA of that organism in the tomatoes, so that tomatoes can do it too. So what they did is they went out and looked for an organism. Apparently they found a fish in the Antarctic Ocean that can withstand freezing temperatures, so they got the fish, got out the DNA and combined the DNA of the fish with the tomato, and it worked!

Now people are trying to find out if they are really eating what they are looking at, that is why prop 37 appeared on this year’s ballot. 

Currently at this time, numerous amounts of citizens in the U.S contained the curiosity and cautious thinking of the food products they consume in their daily lives, specifically genetically-engineered foods. If Proposition 37 is passed in the state of California, it will be the first state to label genetically-engineered food, along with the highly claimed notion that it could change this country. According to  Barry Estabrook, author of the book Tomatoland and the blog Politics of the Plate, said, "I think the big story is going to be the California referendum on GMOs. It's not a California story. It's a national story." 

The outcome in passing this labeling law would broaden our agricultural perspective in society, especially the world. I am unbiased about this issue of whether to label the food products in every corner of our market, but I do agree on the proposed idea of labeling the not-as-known genetically-engineered foods because of their current safety issue and will become known of the foods they buy or eat. Jack Pitney, professor of government of Claremont Mckenna College states that, “If manufacturers change national labeling practices to conform to California law, the effects will show up on every grocery shelf in America.” If Prop 37 is not passed, it will continue to be unknown to the public of the foods they consume and be unproven safety to this country.

In the eyes of a lot of people, technology is either good or bad, fascinating or scary. In this case, it is both. When people are unaware of an issue or a topic they either do one of two things: They sit back and stick with the crowd or they assume that the issue is bad. In my opinion, the only people who are actually aware of the effects of Genetically modified food is those who actually took the time and researched it or those who would be affected by Proposition 37. 

Proposition 37 is the topic of LABELING genetically modified food (GMO). Now mind you, the effects of genetically modified food is completely safe. Scientists have put this new food through several tests and it has been recorded and deemed SAFE. Now although it is safe for humans, I am not aware if that also applies to household pets or other animals.

Now, we already have genetically modified food, but there is no label for it. To the curious and unaware eye, this whole issue could look like farmers injecting dangerous chemicals in the food they already eat. The real topic is whether to label it or not as genetically modified.