I wrote this guest post for October Unprocessed, where blogger Andrew Wilder of Eating Rules challenges thousands of people to give up processed food for an entire month. So after this excerpt, please head over to Andrew's terrific blog to read the whole post.
I was standing with my clipboard at the farmers’ market when
she walked by.
“Would you like to sign an initiative to get labeling for
genetically modified food on the California ballot in November?” I said.
“No,” she said firmly.
“Don’t you want to know what’s in
your food?” I asked.
“We don’t need to know everything.”
I paused, in holy crap mode.
“But what if I want
to know?” I said.
“They tell us too much already,” she announced.
I could see her reasoning-impaired mind was made up, and
like they told us in signature gathering training, when someone is not going to
budge, just move on. So like a good volunteer, I let her go.
