Thursday, February 23, 2012

What's the Deal With GMO Labeling.

A lot's been made about the call to require any GMO product to require labeling outlining exactly what genes are in the food we are buying at the grocery store. Sounds like a reasonable request. If someone's been tinkering with the plants that make up my food, I think I have the right to know. But what many people don't seem to realize is that while GMO crops are genetically modified, pretty much every other crop is inundated with countless unknown genes on a daily basis, and we don't seem to care about those. They aren't touched by science...they don't carry the still negative connotation of the phrase "genetically modified." But, is there any real difference between a GMO crop and a crop grown using the billions of naturally occurring "foreign" genes that cover our "regular" crops? Take a look...
http://www.biofortified.org/2012/02/what-should-we-know-about-foreign-genes-in-our-food/

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