# Meet Bernie Sanders **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 5, 2016, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-bernie-sanders/745207 "2016-02-05T04:32:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 31
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2016, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-bernie-sanders/745207/31 "2016-03-09T16:23:10Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > What is the point of listing all the ingredients in packaged food products if they’re not necessarily harmful? Because its nutritional information. There is a difference between a loaf of bread with 5 grams of fiber and 1 gram of sugar per slice and a loaf of bread with 5 grams of sugar and 1 gram of fiber per slice. What difference does GMO make in the product you buy? > [@](#): > > Because, as in the ingredients list, the public’s right to know what they are putting in their pie-hole requires a mandate, and except in special cases it’s usually difficult to mandate a declaration of absence. You don’t mandate it any more than you mandate people to label their products to be organic. Its anti-science fear-mongering. > [@](#): > > I don’t have a single food item that confidently assures me that it “does not contain rat poison” and is “100% plutonium-free”. If GMO was as hazardous for you as rat poison and plutonium, I would support GMO labeling, heck, I’d support banning it. You see your assumption here is that there is something bad about GMO and we should let people know. I can make arguments for why SOME types of GMO are bad for the environment and crop diversity but this drive to label GMO is anti-science fear-mongering in the same category as the anti-vaccine movement and some parts of the organic food movement. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-bernie-sanders/745207)._