It would seem that America is the only place on Earth that allows companies to lie about what is listed under ingredients on our food. Countires all over the world (the European Union, Austrailia. Brazil, etc.) they have legislation informing the population about what they are eating. The reason this country hasn't is because the FDA decided that Genetically Modified food are "close enough" to the real deal that the crops need not go through rigorous testing or regulation and that the finished product need not be labled.
Close enough? Really? I wonder if a Bride would be ok with a "close enough" diamond. Would she be ok with a cubic zirconia while payng for a diamond all the while being completely ignorant about her purchase? I doubt it. I mean what next? Since our bodies can't tell the difference between corn sugar and cane sugar are ingredient lists going to just say sugar if people don't jump on the high-fructose-corn-syrup bandwagon?
To put this to a point, the Government is lying and Americans do nothing. We tried and failed to force genetically modified food to be labled but why stop there every year people protest pro-life and pro-choice, or whether or not there is going to be prayer in schools, why did we stop? Americans are so easily distacted that it is not too difficult for our government to get away with things when we are off somewhere else not paying attention.
We keep hearing on the news that we are a very obese unhealthy country but there is hardly any data to confirm or deny that Genetically modified foods are harmful to health.
In the end what I don't understand that if everything the government says is true and genetically modified food is pretty much the same as the real thing than what would be the problem with displaying that on a product? I have come to understand in this world that you hide and create ambiguity if there is something wrong with what you are doing. If there was no risk with Genetically modified food or organisms than there would be no reason not have blazing neon signs proving that point.
To promote the idea of genetically engineered food we have explainations of being able to feed the starving of the world but I don't believe for one minute that companies with the technology and patents on seeds would be so altruistic that they wouls share with a finanically bankeupt country and it is those countries that would benefit from the technology.
It would seem that though the U.S. it at the top of the world in economy, for however much longer is up for debate, and military we seem to be falling a little behind in citizens rights.
My advice is to go organic when you can and try your best to find petitions that are battling new GMO products. Here is a link to help do just that.
http://www.saynotogmos.org/
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