TheLA Timesdocumented a recent rally which occur alfresco of a Chicago grocery shop . But the protesters , adorned in hazmat suits with anti - GMO sign were n’t outside of your average grocery store ; they were outside of Whole Foods . Today because 93 percent of all soybean plant , 86 pct of corn , and 93 percentage of canola seed are now genetically modify , Whole Foods claim that they ca n’t guarantee that all the foods they carry are not genetically modified . Though the Whole Foods brand is GMO gratuitous , so many processed foods bear them it ’s becoming hard to stuck ledge .
The Obama Administration has deregulate more genetically modified foods than ever . Fromplumstoalfalfaand evenmuch disputed sugar beets . But it ’s not just that so many crops are qualify ( 165 million Accho and counting ) it ’s that there ’s presently no labeling organisation in place so that consumers know what they ’re buying . We are one of the few industrialized country that does n’t require labeling of GMO food for thought .
In Europe all products hold more than.9 pct GMO are labeledas such . But in the US , there is no such monetary standard . We would care to conceive that our foods come from nature , but that ’s far from the caseful . Currently , 30 other rural area have significant restriction placed onGMOs .
The only system in place in good order now is theNON GMO Project . TheNON GMO Project scientifically tests all of the individual ingredientsthat make up a merchandise using a third party examination facility . But this is a non - profit multi - stakeholder collaboration and it ’s not governing funded . Today many GMO - free foods carry its label .
On the next page , find out why there are no GMO labels .
Why No Labeling?
According to theLA Times :
presently 14 states have introduced legislation on GMO labeling but most of it has not go out of citizens committee , including an Illinois card introduced in February by Rep. Deborah Mell , D - Chicago . She says she plans to reintroduce it next academic term . Only Alaska , with its huge wild Salmon River industry , has cash in one’s chips a biotech seafood labeling jurisprudence .
" If companies say genetic engineering is fine , then OK have ’s judge it and allow the consumer make their own conclusion , " said Michael Hansen , a aged scientist at Consumers Union , which produce Consumer Reports . " That ’s what all the liberal marketplace supporters say . So get ’s have the food market mould by rights . "
