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AspieUtah
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27 May 2015, 1:44 pm

BostonGlobe.com wrote:
...In a Nielsen study of 30,000 consumers published this month, 80 percent of respondents said they would pay more for foods with labels like "non-GMO" even though a majority of them do not necessarily trust food labels. And 61 percent of those consumers said it was "very" or "moderately" important to buy products with a non-GMO label, exceeded only by those saying it was important to buy products without high-fructose corn syrup....

BostonGlobe.com: "GMO labels for food are in high demand but provide little certainty" (January 31, 2015)
http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/201 ... story.html

Convincing 80 percent of any market is a big deal.


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27 May 2015, 3:33 pm

Both the "Non-GMO" and the "Organic" labels seem to mean very little, except to allow the sellers to jack the prices upward.