60+ countries ban or have mandatory labeling of GE crops. The same top 5 food manufacturers in this country must label for these other countries why not here in the US?

I need to know if it’s gmo. If it’s not on the label, how can we have traceability transparency … where is the accountability if someones child gets sick from these ingredients that can be highly allergenic?

British Medical Association, “GM foodstuffs should be segregated at source, to enable identification and traceability of GM products. This is important as there are considerable doubts about the behaviour of GMOs once they are released into the environment, and this will also facilitate monitoring in the interests of public health. It is unacceptable that at present some GM and non-GM products are mixed at source, and are not adequately labelled. ”

Illinois Public Health Association : “lack of labeling denies health professionals the ability to trace potential toxic [1] or allergic reactions [2] [3] [4] to, and other adverse health effects [5] [6] [7] from, genetically engineered food”

American Public Health Association(APHA) : “APHA declare its support that any food product containing genetically modified organisms be so labeled.”

National Environmental Health Association(NEHA) : “NEHA declare its support for the “understandable” labeling of any food product that contains GMOs”

California Medical Association(CMA) : “the CMA support accurate labeling requirements for foods, including genetically modified foods, by appropriate regulatory agencies.”

American College of Physicians : “the Board of Regents supports legislation and/or federal regulatory action which requires all foods containing genetically engineered ingredients to be clearly labeled.”

Public Health Association of Australia, “The labelling system should be improved to the standards desired by consumers, so that consumers can easily identify foods containing ingredients originating from GM animals and plants”

Plants have been modified to resist weed killers.
This allows cultivation without excessive tillage, fuel consumption, air pollution and use of more toxic herbicides.
Less artificial chemicals are introduced into the ecosystem.

AND
“allowing multi-national corporations to own patents on life forms and these life forms are replacing and eliminating natural plants and small farmers across the country and around the world and”

An interesting thing about a patent is that it is made known to the public and expires after a number of years.
For example, the patent for Roundup expired already and anybody can make it.
Roundup and its generics have extremely low toxicity and are broken down by bacteria and other processes unless they bind to soil, which they do easily, in which case they are effectively neutralized immediately.

AND
“4) there is scientific proof GMO yields are less than organic.”

So farmers are spending more money to make less money?
And the ones who are making less money are pushing out the ones who use more money-making seeds?

Like most conspiracy theories this one breaks down in that nobody really benefits from the conspiracy. That and the idea that people want to kill themselves and all those they love to die richer sooner.

David for better living
through biology

It doesn’t cost anymore to label foods. Labels change all the time.

It’s time to stand up to what’s right for our families and demand that we be able to make informed choices.

GMO crops so far: sugar beet, corn, canola, cotton, soy, some papaya and squash. GMO tomatoes were taken off the market long ago, because they
tasted like cardboard. The first GMO apples are ready for the market, called arctic apples, if you want to test/avoid them.