If very few foods are gmo then requiring a label stating as much would be a benefit to those non org food producers as the claims being made against them would be debunked, instantly by anyone capable of reading a label
Where did he say that few foods are GMO? In fact literally all the food you eat should be considered GMO as humans have manipulated all of it at some point. It'll just end up like the California cancer warning, where it will be meaningless because it can apply to basically everything.
You're being an idiot on this. Do you want your produce covered in giant stickers that spell all that out? I hope you realize that will just lead to even more confusions as they're going to have to explain what manner of GMO it is (I hope you realize there's a wide variety of manners that you can genetically modify things).
Have you looked at milk labels recently? Notice how everything includes a "not from cows with rBST hormone" and then it has to include a waiver pointing that no science supports that matters? Do you want "this is GMO, but science doesn't support that GMO is harmful so this is pointless"?
Plus, there's voluntary methods. There's tons of shit that has "non-GMO" or "GMO free", no regulation required. There's even organizations that will validate that ("Non-GMO Project").
I hope you realize GMO has fucking nothing to do with taste (or realize that many of these grown for taste were genetically modified as well; you know that, right? That many varieties were deliberately bred for their taste qualities). The bigger issue is that its providing year round access to fresh produce, which means non-optimal picking, and growing regardless of climate (with it tending to have to come from farther away, meaning more time between when its picked and when you'd get it, which is a big factor and why stuff is often picked non-optimally as there's a shelf life). Would you prefer to not have access to them outside of their "natural growing season", and then be limited to what amount was grown in your region?
If you want tastier food, you should be growing your own and/or buying locally and in season. GMO stickers won't do a damn thing to provide you with better tasting produce. It will also likely inhibit growers from being able to modify for flavor. Furthermore, the anti-GMO movement that you're helping foster (no matter how you try to spin it, I can see through your bullshit argument, you're a nutter and its clear with how you keep trying to push this nonsense; I bet you would not be able to tell the difference in taste between GMO and non-GMO that was grown under the same circumstances and you had the same access to - so same route to you; this was scientifically researched and the natural variance among a population was higher than any reliably shown difference between GMO and non-GMO in nutritional value and taste), will prevent us from modifying out things that don't help (for instance, say huge factory labs of produce take off, where there's no need for pesticides - most of which the plants have naturally developed themselves by the way - means we wouldn't be able to remove ones that have no benefit and are possibly even responsible for people's allergies to them; you are aware of how horrible some food allergies like peanut ones can be right? You do know that they've been working on developing peanuts that wouldn't trigger those allergies, right? Are you aware that potatoes used to be inedible, they're a member of the nightshade family, yes the one that the poison is sourced from; they naturally developed their own genetic modification that led to them being edible? Oh and by the way the nightshade family includes tomatoes, many types of peppers, egg plants. I hope you haven't been enjoying all the crazy variety in peppers from recent years as those are due to genetic modification, but like you said, it hasn't helped make for better tasting produce so guess we should make sure people are aware of them being GMO so they can be sure to avoid them and their not good flavor. Do I need to keep going on the ways that the food you know and love today was likely much less tasty if not outright inedible, prior to humans manipulating their genetics?).
Oh and I hope you don't mind significantly increased food costs, so that even when your "as nature intended" produce is in season, that it'll cost a lot more. I'm sure that won't lead to lower quality stuff getting punted to highly processed foods, which will make up more of people's diets because of the lower availability of fresh foods due to anti-GMO sentiment. Oh and have fun if there's some breakout of disease (not sure if you've heard how the bananas today are not the same as the bananas from decades past? Through the same science that gives us GMO, they can potentially bring back those bananas), or sustained drought (they're modifying some crops so that they can grow in salt water such that we could grow them along the coasts).
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