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A [[company]] using a [[GMO]] to produce a good (e.g. a farmer using GM corn seed) will result in the produced good being marked as GMO too. No? | A [[company]] using a [[GMO]] to produce a good (e.g. a farmer using GM corn seed) will result in the produced good being marked as GMO too. No? | ||
:No. First a farmer (that you choose to label company) is also a consumer. He consumes the products sold by other firms. He buys seeds, machinary, pesticides, fertilizers. Hence, he is also a consumer, who might decide on his own whether he wants to buy gm seeds or non gm seeds. he must be granted the choice. Besides, as many consumers, even if he made the choice not to grow gm seeds, he may be forced to do so because his neighbours are growing gm crops, and some contaminations occur. Why do you consider a consumer is necessary the last end of the chain ? | |||
Second, a company using a gm to produce a good, will not necessarily have a gm in the end. For example, Gotz Laible modified cows for them to provide a milk enriched in casein (interesting in cheese production). About 10% of the borned veals now produce a milk with 20% increase casein. The cow is ogm, but the milk definitly is not. It is just enhanced milk. You will not be able to find any trace of foreign gene in it. Ideally, it should be marked. But certainly not as a gmo as it absolutely is not a gmo (and probably has no impact whatsoever on human health - since used to make cheese - and since this process is involving addition of casein). Does not necessarily mean it will be marked. Also, soya seeds made from gm-soya may contain such a small amount of detectable marker it won't be marked as a product made from a gm, unless it was traced from the beginning of the production chain. | |||
Not sure I am clear here. | |||
A [[consumer]] consuming a good made from a GMO (e.g. a vegetarian eating a soya steak made from GM soya plant) | A [[consumer]] consuming a good made from a GMO (e.g. a vegetarian eating a soya steak made from GM soya plant) | ||