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| State Rights be Damned; GOP stomps on state rights | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 17 2015, 08:08 AM (199 Views) | |
| Axtremus | Jul 17 2015, 08:08 AM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Bill passed by House GOP bans states from imposing their own food labeling requirements: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/07/14/house-committee-passes-bill-to-ban-states-from-requiring-gmo-food-labeling/30141681/ Big Agriculture wins, states rights be damned. |
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| Mikhailoh | Jul 17 2015, 08:40 AM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Nice troll. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Larry | Jul 17 2015, 09:17 AM Post #3 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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Another classic example of how the leftwing media twists things up to suit their agenda, and how the sheep who are infected with the disease of modern liberalism spread it like it was gospel. |
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Of the Pokatwat Tribe | |
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| big al | Jul 17 2015, 10:23 AM Post #4 |
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Bull-Carp
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Where's the troll? You'll have to explain to me how Ax's thread title isn't factually accurate. Big Al |
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Location: Western PA "jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen." -bachophile | |
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| Larry | Jul 17 2015, 10:52 AM Post #5 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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To understand why the thread title is not only inaccurate but is an ideologically driven reinvention of the facts, you first have to understand *why* they voted against it - as did Elizabeth Warren and several other democrats. They voted against it because it was unconstitutional, ineffective, and would only result in higher food prices. http://www.naturalnews.com/036301_Rand_Paul_GMO_labeling_Senate.html "S. Amdt. 2310 falsely assumes that the federal government has the authority to grant states permission to label GMOs. As others have already begun to point out in the days following the amendment's rejection, the legislation was essentially toothless from the start. The federal government does not, after all, have the constitutional authority to prohibit states from requiring GMO labeling, let alone permit it. The federal government has also never even tried, at this point, to legally stop individual states from mandating GMO labeling. This means S. Amdt. 2310 was a faulty attempt to address an issue that is not even an issue, and one that attempted to do so using an unconstitutional approach. A key thing to remember in all this is that neither the federal government nor the U.S. Congress has any constitutional authority to grant states permission to label or not to label GMOs. Under the U.S. Constitution, individual states already possess their own inherent authority to determine how they wish to handle the GMO labeling issue, and the federal government does not legally possess any authority whatsoever in the matter. Americans need to remember that our individual rights and the rights of our states, as outlined in the Constitution, are not at all contingent upon whether or not the federal government approves or disapproves of them. These rights are wholly independent of the federal government, regardless of how this increasingly tyrannical overlord system tries to interfere with them, or pretend as though it is some kind of omniscient gatekeeper that decides whether or not to grant these rights. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other federal agencies may still attempt to restrict states from labeling GMOs through loopholes and other crafty regulatory means. But in no scenario does a state require a federal amendment that "permits" states to label GMOs -- states are free to label, under the Constitution, at any time. And passing an amendment that "permits" something that is already legal and constitutional would only grant the federal government perceived power over a matter that it does not actually possess." The states don't need the federal government to grant them permission. The states already have the right to require the labeling. The legislation solved no problems, all the passage of it would have done would be to allow the federal government to claim more power over the states. |
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| Mikhailoh | Jul 17 2015, 11:03 AM Post #6 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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It's largely symbolic anyway. State by state labeling requirements is such a horrible idea for business. Consumers too, for that matter. To understand why you have to understand the wholesale spply chain. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Axtremus | Jul 17 2015, 11:11 AM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Larry completely misunderstands the whole thing, again. Look, the thing my opening post talks about is the GOP House of Representatives passing out of Committee a bill that bans (as in disallow) individual states to impose the states' own GMO labeling requirements within their own borders. In that sense, the House GOP's bill is taking away some of the states' rights to regulate food labeling within their borders. I am not exactly sure why you cited an article from 2012 in post #5 (were you even aware that that's an old article from 2012) ... but I hope Rand Paul et al will continue to oppose it if that bill makes it out of the House of Representative, and I am already quite confident that most Senate Democrats will oppose such a bill (though likely for different reasons than Rand Paul). |
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| Larry | Jul 17 2015, 12:43 PM Post #8 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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I didn't misunderstand a damned thing. |
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| AndyD | Jul 17 2015, 12:55 PM Post #9 |
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Senior Carp
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You been drinking again? |
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Every morning the soul is once again as good as new, and again one offers it to one's brothers & sisters in life. | |
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| AndyD | Jul 17 2015, 01:04 PM Post #10 |
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Senior Carp
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Fine rhetoric, and yet you want to force some three million American citizens (who happen to practice the Islamic religion) onto ships and to leave their country. |
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Every morning the soul is once again as good as new, and again one offers it to one's brothers & sisters in life. | |
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| TomK | Jul 17 2015, 01:34 PM Post #11 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Personally, I'm all for that as long as they take all the white Southern men (like Dylann Roof) along with them. |
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| Larry | Jul 17 2015, 01:56 PM Post #12 |
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Mmmmmmm, pie!
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Andy, if you want to suck my dick just say so. But i'm getting tired of all the foreplay. |
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