03-01-2015, 07:23 AM
If you are truly passionate about not eating 'GMO' foods it's not that hard to do the research and find out which crops are actually grown as 'GMO'.
There are not that many.
By knowing which crops are transgenic it's fairly easy to look at the ingredient labels and identify for yourself whether or not it has 'GMO' ingredients or not.
For example, a product contains soy - probably 'GMO'. A product contains wheat - not GMO.
Why? Because 90% of soy is grown commercially as 'GMO', and because no 'GMO' wheat is grown commercially.
There are really not that many crops that have been approved for commercial production by the USDA, FDA, and EPA (the three regulatory agencies for 'GMO' crops in the U.S.)
If you are truly interested in the matter educate yourself and learn which crops have been approved for commercial production and use your own intuition to decide if a product contains 'GMO'.
I'm not saying that you can't have labels - just that there is information available for you to make an informed decision already without having labels yet. If you aren't too lazy you can learn this information yourself and be able to make an informed decision without the need for a label.
I can see how this may change in the future once more crops become modified and are approved for commercial production.
There are not that many.
By knowing which crops are transgenic it's fairly easy to look at the ingredient labels and identify for yourself whether or not it has 'GMO' ingredients or not.
For example, a product contains soy - probably 'GMO'. A product contains wheat - not GMO.
Why? Because 90% of soy is grown commercially as 'GMO', and because no 'GMO' wheat is grown commercially.
There are really not that many crops that have been approved for commercial production by the USDA, FDA, and EPA (the three regulatory agencies for 'GMO' crops in the U.S.)
If you are truly interested in the matter educate yourself and learn which crops have been approved for commercial production and use your own intuition to decide if a product contains 'GMO'.
I'm not saying that you can't have labels - just that there is information available for you to make an informed decision already without having labels yet. If you aren't too lazy you can learn this information yourself and be able to make an informed decision without the need for a label.
I can see how this may change in the future once more crops become modified and are approved for commercial production.