{"id":14020,"date":"2014-11-04T11:18:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T16:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=14020"},"modified":"2014-11-04T11:18:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T16:18:55","slug":"love-boulder-colorados-gmo-labeling-proposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=14020","title":{"rendered":"No Love in Boulder for Colorado's GMO Labeling Proposition"},"content":{"rendered":"

https://forgive123.com/steps/ The following is a guest post from\u00a0Paul McDivitt<\/a>,\u00a0a second-year master\u2019s student studying journalism and mass communication research at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Follow him on twitter\u00a0@paulmcdivitt<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

https://www.andrewplimmer.com/business-tools-and-resources/ UPDATE:<\/strong> The GMO labeling initiative in Colorado was soundly rejected<\/a>. (Breakdown of Boulder vote is at bottom of post.)<\/p>\n

https://forgive123.com/terms/ Today, Colorado voters will decide if the state should require genetically modified foods to be labeled as such. The ballot measure is called Proposition 105<\/a>. A Suffolk University poll<\/a> showed that 49.2 percent in Colorado oppose the proposition, 29.8 percent support it, and 21 percent are undecided.\u00a0The Democratic Party of Denver\u00a0endorsed<\/a>\u00a0it.<\/p>\n

Weeks ago, when I received a voter guide<\/a> in the mail from the Boulder County Democratic Party, I was surprised to see that it did not take a stand on Proposition 105.<\/p>\n

Zolpidem Buy Online After all, Boulder is known as a liberal bastion<\/a>. It established itself as a hippie paradise in the \u201860s, and remains a choice destination for free spirits and vagabonds alike, home to countless yoga studios, marijuana dispensaries, and a sprawling farmers\u2019 market. Just the kind of place you would expect to support GMO labeling, right?<\/p>\n

Buy Xanax Online Without Prescription But Boulder is also home to several world-renowned scientific organizations<\/a>, as well as the University of Colorado-Boulder. It\u2019s worth noting that the American scientific community leans left, politically speaking: A 2009 survey<\/a> of members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) found that 55 percent of respondents identified as Democrats, 31 percent as Independents and only six percent as Republicans. I suspect that the Boulder scientific community is skewed along similar lines and that local scientists are engaged in local politics.<\/p>\n

https://disneycruisinggroup.com/stateroom-photos/ I wondered if the Boulder county Democratic Party’s non-endorsement of GMO labeling was influenced by the scientific community. Maybe, I thought, scientists are more likely to understand GE [genetically engineered] technology and the scientific consensus on the health and safety of GMOs<\/a>? To test my theory, I asked several well-known Boulder-based scientists about their views on GMOs and the labeling proposition.<\/p>\n

Hydrocodone Purchase Online \u201cOn the one hand I like the idea of truth in labeling,\u201d said Kevin Trenberth, a Boulder resident and climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. \u201cOn the other hand I think the whole business of GMOs is seriously distorted in the minds of the public and the rhetoric in the media.\u201d<\/p>\n

https://ramedicare.com/ramedica-pain-relief/ Professor Michael Breed and several of his colleagues in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department at CU-Boulder were strongly opposed to Proposition 105. \u201cThere\u2019s no convincing scientific evidence that I\u2019m aware of that GMOs present a health hazard, and there\u2019s no practical way to separate and identify GMOs in our food stream.\u201d<\/p>\n

Buy Tramadol 100 Mg Online Pieter Tans, a climate researcher at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which employs<\/a> hundreds of scientists at its Boulder research center, was similarly unswayed by GMO health and safety concerns. \u201cHumanity has been eating genetically modified food for thousands of years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Of the dozen scientists I talked to, none supported Proposition 105 and none had any concerns about the health and safety of genetically modified foods. (A\u00a02011 Demographic Profile<\/a>\u00a0by the Boulder Economic Council found 34.8 percent of Boulder residents hold advanced degrees compared to the U.S. average of 10.4 percent. That’s a lot of highly educated people.)<\/p>\n

https://andiroberts.com/leadership-myths/ This exercise gave me some hope. Maybe it is possible for us to educate our way out of politically polluted scientific debates?<\/p>\n

Buy Xanax Online Overnight Or not. “Boulder has a lot of educated people that do not use scientific thinking,\u201d Dr. Andrew Martin, an Evolutionary and Conservation Genetics professor at CU-Boulder, told me. As an example, he pointed to a certain organic mecca in Boulder. \u201cWhole Foods is full of potions and herbal remedies that are costly yet lack any convincing evidence for the promoted effects.”<\/p>\n

Buy Ativan Online Without Prescription Baby steps, Dr. Martin, baby steps.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> Boulder voters rejected<\/a>\u00a0the GMO food labeling measure, 54% to 45%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buy Ultram Online The following is a guest post from\u00a0Paul McDivitt,\u00a0a second-year master\u2019s student studying journalism and mass communication research at the University of Colorado-Boulder. Follow him on twitter\u00a0@paulmcdivitt. UPDATE: The GMO labeling initiative in Colorado was soundly rejected. (Breakdown of Boulder vote is at bottom of post.) Today, Colorado voters will decide if the state should require… Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2496,2710,2724],"tags":[743,766,874,1125,1126,1433,1583],"class_list":["post-14020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotechnology","category-genetically-modified-foods","category-gmos","tag-biotechnology","tag-boulder","tag-colorado","tag-gmo-labeling","tag-gmos","tag-organic-foods","tag-science-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}