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I don't know what the right answer is but... People say transparency is good and more info is good. Well to play devil's advocate it seems pretty obvious label

I don't know what the right answer is but... People say transparency is good and more info is good. Well to play devil's advocate it seems pretty obvious labeling the race of the people making the product so consumers can choose not to buy products made my a certain race of people would be bad. In other words it seems it's not true that all transparency and information is good. In this case I tend to believe labelling will mostly be used for ignorance not info

forgetsusername 10y ago
>it seems pretty obvious labeling the race of the people making the product so consumers can choose not to buy products made my a certain race of people would be bad Because the "race" of the person is irrelevant? Maybe there are political or moral reasons as to why you would choose to not purchase from a certain country (ie human rights), but of course we do have labels for that.
- mseebach 10y ago
  Who are you to decide what's irrelevant? More information is always better, right? Let people decide for themselves? Also, never mind that there are certain instances where concerns against certain countries is merely thinly veiled racism against the people in those countries. The parent was obviously, as they stated in so many words, playing devils advocate (and so was I in the above, for the record). The subtext is that whether it's GMO or not is equally irrelevant and will only serve a purpose for those with unfounded prejudices (and for those that might be confused into giving such prejudice undue consideration).