The Lake County Chamber of Commerce claims that Proposition 37 is imperfect and I would have to agree.

But, I would go on to say that I wish that the agricultural biotech companies and the FDA had applied a standard of perfection to genetically engineered crops before approving them, but they didn’t.

In fact, all the FDA did was review the data presented by the very corporations seeking approval for their genetically engineered seeds.

The first ever long-term study of GE food just came out in the peer reviewed journal “Food and Chemical Toxicology.”

Rats were fed a strain of Roundup Ready corn and the findings included massive mammary tumors, kidney and liver damage and other serious problems: http://research.sustainablefoodtrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Final-Paper.pdf .

If the FDA and Monsanto had done a study like this and not released that corn into our food, I’d be willing to wait for a perfect proposition – but heck, I didn’t even get a perfect proposition from my husband and I still accepted him and have no regrets!

As it stands now I’ll take the imperfections of Proposition 37 over the imperfections in the industry, the FDA and GE foods any day.  

So, I’ll be voting yes on Proposition 37 in November.

Annelle Durham lives in Upper Lake, Calif.