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I choose to avoid GMO products (it's my choice, right?). To do that, I have to be able to distinguish them from non-GMO products. That means labeling; and if GMO promoters are lobbying against labeling (and they are), then I'm against the GMO promoters. Unless GMO products are clearly labeled, I favour a ban on importing them at all.

As far as genetic modification in the lab being indistinguishable from genetic modification the way farmers have always done it (cross-breeding), here's the difference, in a nutshell: farmers have no method for cross-breeding a potato with a jellyfish (or adding genes from bacteria, or whatever). That is, the lab technique permits technicians to effectively create new species.

Now I'm OK (in principle) with new species appearing on the shelves; but I don't want to eat them myself, until they have been tested with the same rigour as if they were novel medicines. My choice, you see. If the GMO products are smuggled onto the shelves in disguise, then what happened to my choice?