*promote the stupid. Just because it is short and so very very very stupid.


Assbite's logic fails on sooooo many levels. Including his first factual error where he confuses "organic" with "natural."

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Yes, honorable companies like Mosanto.

And yet this is what most libertarians I come across seem to be advocating. Get rid of government, get them out of our lives and just trust the big corporations. Libertarians today seem to just be supporting a future of corporate tyranny.

Uhhh, how is Whole Foods supposed to do the 'right thing' and find 'organic' foods if there's no standard and the producers can simply claim 'organic'? Is he suggesting that all companies that want to sell 'organic' must do their own testing on each item? How else would they know? With the major food manufacturers insisting they not be forced to label their products (at least GMO's or organics), how is the consumer supposed to make an informed decision, Mr. Beck? (...or is it that they are not supposed to make informed decisions, but instead are being asked to make un-informed decisions based on 'trust' of a company that hides what's in it's products from it's customers based on the idea that the customer won't buy the product if they know the ingredients?)
Idiocy.

ahh yes, the free market will solve all. The market that has never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever been free and even the founder of capitalism argues that it needs to be regulated.

12 year olds would still be working in sweatshops were it not for regulation. Slavery would still be legal were it not for that pesky meddling gov't

Every time I hear these kinds of arguments, it solidifies my beleif that these guys think like this, cause its far easier than actually committing mental effort to solving the problems.

"Fuck this problem is too hard, let the market decide! Deregulate, the market will rule all!"

Intellectual cop-outs.

The whole "let the market decide" is completely stupid.

But GMO's are safe, even though Monsanto is a horrible, piece of shit of a company, and labeling GMO's as such is a fear-mongering technique, that only serves to spread ignorance.

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I'm sure I'm going to elicit the ire from the sift for saying this but, for all of Beck's usual nuttiness, I actually think he's correct in this instance: we actually do not need an FDA to tell us what "organic" does or does not mean. At this point, the FDA has co-opted the label "organic" such that it doesn't mean anything anymore. In fact, the FDA now prohibits the use of the term "organic" unless it meets their lobby-prone restrictions (thereby driving up the costs). Even the (private!) Berkeley Ecology Center* (which keeps track of these kinds of issues and whose Farmer's Market Manager is actually a good friend of mine) agrees that the government-owned "organic" labeling system means little to nothing anymore.

So, as Beck is suggesting here, having private institutions that you trust can (and in many instances already do) provide you with the information that you'd want/need to get organic food at affordable prices.

For example, the Non-GMO Project (again, a Private organization) that lists and labels GMO-free foods are doing a great job, much better than the FDA care to or even could.

*The Berkeley Ecology Center are a private (!) "ecological think tank" and do not actively publish, but they will give you as much documentation as you'd like, if you request them, of any references, legislation, regulations, etc. and where to find them. If you need documentation, check out their public archive found here.
I'd say that their existence alone helps support Beck's argument here. The Ecology Center can tell you anything you'd want to know from the FDA (and much more that the FDA -- or even the EPA -- wouldn't want you to know) or they can tell you where to go to find out. They don't yet have the resources to conduct studies on their own, so at this point they are more like an "environmental 411" to point you in the right direction to do your own research.

In my opinion, having thousands of these centers throughout the country can do a much better job of tracking these issues than the centralized agencies could ever do.

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