On November 7th, it was announced that CALIFORNIA PROP 37 did NOT Pass.
HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE when all the VOTES were NOT counted?
HOW is it possible, that on January 11th they had REPORTED over 6M votes for Prop 37 ! and then the very next day ...decided to RETRACT the statement and stop announcing the counts every day that were still coming in.
They had up to January 14th to complete the Tally ... but WAS it complete?
No, they found discrepancies in several major PRECINTS where VOTES were STILL NOT COUNTED or were Missing.
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"California's Secretary of State Debra Bowen’s office.

But, the office has also reported that nearly 3.3 million votes have yet to be counted." << That was on November 7th.
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I Propose doing ANOTHER PROPOSITION !
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So who benefits from PROP 37 failing?
How much money did many major, familiar brand names, besides the Pesticide corporations...put in to defeat this proposition?
Did they lie by adding the FDA's seal in their advertising? Yes, They implied that the FDA approved their message?
How much money did they fork out afterward to LOOSE the controversial ballots?
How can a President be elected and the Propositions not be counted at the SAME time? Hint, if you know the major precincts that voted for GMO Labeling, it's alot easier to LOOSE 400,000 votes and delay the count.
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I can only hope that the Truth about GMOs and our processed foods gets out to the general AMERICAN public so they know the inherent danger ...they and their children are in. I CALL a Thousand Thousand ANGELS to help spread the Truth! Be Safe.

Does anyone know if la plata corn is gm ? Cornflakes made from it have appeared here in Germany ... seems to be from Argentina corn

As commenter Folta claims to be, I am an independent scientist (a math PhD) at a public institution with no corporate ties. I work with resource biologists, applying my experience in statistics, modeling, computation and logic.

A favorite ploy of smug (or conspiratorial) insiders is to denounce reporters for not reporting the full story that – inherently (or by their own design) – is known only to these very insiders. So Folta faults Gucciardi for an incomplete account of allegedly impending GMOs and applications.

Folta has no right to be so snide: other key claims and arguments in his comment fail to meet scientific or indeed everyday commonsense standards for sound and relevant reasoning. Instead the comment features (1) irrelevant innuendo, (2) unsound generalization, (3) obfuscation by use of the loaded and ambiguous term ‘causing’, and (4) reversal of due precautionary standards..

(1) IRRELEVANT INNUENDO. Folta claims (last paragraph, second sentence) to be ‘Glad that the anti-GMO folks are attacking science and scientists with the fervor of the radical right climate deniers and creationists.’

Besides its silly uniform stereotyping of all of us who are among ‘the’ anti-GMO folks, this statement is not only a logically irrelevant ad hominem attack but moreover manages three nasty but fallacious bits of innuendo: first, that somehow ‘fervor’ is inherently wrong and anti-scientific; second, that just because we supposedly have fervor we are all in the ‘radical right’ camps of climate deniers and creationists; and third, that we are not merely questioning some dubious claims being promoted as science but instead are attacking science-in-general and scientists-in-general.

(2) UNSOUND GENERALIZATION Folta’s generalization about all ‘the GMO folks’ is, if anything, less silly than his uniform and unverified claim of safety (despite unspecified admitted ‘limitations’) for the entire gamut of biotech technologies and its many different products. He finds it adequate to treat all these as a single monolithic ‘It’ and claims that ‘It is not causing death, sterility, cancer, autism, etc.’

(3) OBFUSCATION Folta’s use here of the word ‘causing’ seems to address the matter of safety but in fact does not. Whether a process or product is on net harmful does not hang simplistically on that process or product being a ‘cause’ of anything. Anyhow just what counts as a ‘cause’ can depend on one’s baseline perspective. From one perspective all those India suicides in the wake of failure of the engineered BT-cotton crop were not ‘caused’ by that product or its failure but owed to mores of Indian rural society. Likely those who hyped the engineered BT-cotton were blissfully ignorant of those mores and so - maybe - they have avoided feeling guilt over the suicides.

(4) REVERSAL OF DUE PRECAUTIONARY STANDARDS According to Folta, the telling fact about GMO safety is that there is allegedly (aside from what he terms ‘the trash Seralini junk’) no evidence that – as quoted above – GMOs are ‘causing death, sterility, …, etc.’. Well, even should Folta happen to be correct about Seralini, common sense and history tell us that revelation of really telling evidence against GMO safety might reasonably be expected to take a good while, maybe many years. It can take time to accumulate good data on latent effects, and it can also take time for investigators to find unexpected but telling correlations. Witness lung cancer from smoking and peregrine falcon losses from DDT. Fifty years after publication of ‘Silent Spring’ at least one lesson should be clear: contra Folta, the proper scientific burden is not on those who question safety but on GMO proponents to conclusively and replicably demonstrate long-term safety of each to-be-released instance of this unprecedented, developing and varied technology.

CONCLUSION Due precaution is precisely why - for two reasons - I am now one of those ‘anti-GMO folks’.

First, I am wary not only of unsound arguments from the likes of Folta but of the biotech industry’s bipolar approach to GMO info. On the one hand, the industry brags about its allegedly wondrous GMOs and aggressively promotes and defends its patents; on the other hand, it works against labeling which would enable the consumer to insist on the products which incorporate these allegedly advantageous GMOs and to reject those which don’t. Most industries both brag of and defend their patents, by having product labels list patent numbers. Why is the biotech industry so determined to play odd-man-out?

Second, I am inspired not by Folta’s climate deniers or creationists but by sound precautionary science, including a notable example by NASA. When the first lunar astronauts were returned to earth, NASA was under pressure to lose no time letting these new celebrities meet the public. Instead, NASA first held them in quarantine and tested them against the remote possibility that they or their gear might be infected by lunar micro-organisms. Such micro-organisms were deemed to be improbable, and even less probable was the prospect that they would be so adaptable to earth conditions as to be able to survive here and be any kind of threat to terrestrial life and ecology. Even so, NASA exercised due precaution. Such due precaution - far more warranted in the case of GMOs which have been engineered to exist and even thrive on earth - has instead been wantonly disregarded and overriden.

If GMOs causes sterility, yes, great. If they cause illness, disease, suffering and expense to existing people that is not great. Yes, overpopulation is one of the world's worst problems. The solution is not more food. The solution is fewer people. You people out there who demand your right to procreate - get over it.

I wonder if that scientist understands that his argument on overpopulation is invalid?

I agree. The world is overpopulated. But by creating more food genetically, we are increasing the possible population. More food equals more possible population. In that sense, creating more food is actually destroying the planet.

However, if he means that by creating GMOs he is killing off more people than creating more food will sustain, then ok, valid argument. Except like others have said, there are better ways to reduce world population.

A trusted ND and researcher in my area commented that the French study was "clean", meaning scientifically solid. Re Monsanto's critique, a valid critique of a study needs to come from a source that has the same or higher degree of independence as the study's authors.
See here, "Why Monsanto’s attempt to 'disappear' tumours by using historical control data is invalid" -- http://bit.ly/Qiqdo8

If it is labeling that offends the grower because of cost just send the fruit or vegatables in a color coded box. Like lavender colored sprinklers are colored so that you know that reclamated sewer water is being used for the irrigation.
So if you see apples in a blue box or blue section in the grocery store its gmo. Lastly if the corporations want to sue for pollen intrusion and patent infringment then all gmo tumors should be reinserted back into the scientist who invented them once this happens we should have some semblence of integrity.

Efforts toward helping the progress of humanity might best be directed toward paddling the lifeboat instead of picking fights with crew mates. Remember how 'progressive' the climate scientist email hacking turned out to be? Even the Himalayan glaciers have turned out to be actually melting as fast as one forced redaction originally suggested.

Just who is on who's side here? The real motivators of human behaviour are far too short sighted when extremism rears its ugly head. On the one hand, some run from trauma; while others try to get into Romney's pants.

Logic and evidence go out the window when people are hungry.

Framing paranoia as fact and promoting the misinformation of others does not make food, or require thought. However it is a first amendment right.

Science is not failing because of the greed and misdeeds of a few corporations.
Science is failing because people are scared. People are scared because education has failed them. Education has failed because religion and war has been used to pre-empt it.

Today there are thousands of American teenagers, many of whom were taken from classroom hallways, being held in solitary confinement for years. Why?

Because fear rules the land. ...and why is that, do you suppose?
Fear is a weakness. Fear is the tool of the oppressor, as is hunger and pain.
We must awaken to the fact that fear is meaningless. Educate yourself.

And eat well.

oh, and please stop pretending that scientists are war criminals. Let's leave that moniker for folks like Joseph Kony, OK? Get a grip. You only disenfranchise yourself with crap like that.

I agree with the posters responding to Kevin. If GMO's are so great, why is there so much money being spent to prevent labeling them? It's already been demonstrated that the cost of doing this is at worst negligible. I would ask also if Kevin thinks it's a great idea to let a handful of companies have complete control of the worlds food supply, via the patenting of seeds. What happens if these terminator seeds don't grow one year? The entire human race could be endangered by this reckless charging forward of so-called scientists. There are more important things than your funding.