This may come as news to some of you, but Genetically Modified (GM) foods are currently being approved by the FDA and are on your supermarket shelves.
I am against the FDA, but as long as it exists, it ought to actually do what it is supposed to do. Customers want to know if food is coming from genetically-modified organisms, and the FDA wants to protect the GMO food and keep these foods hidden on your grocery store shelves without labels.
There is disconcerting that the FDA has taken an obvious side protecting Genetically Modified food. Even scarier that they make it hard for natural food makers to advertise that they do not serve you GMO products. There is quite a bit of evidence that GM food is unhealthy and dangerous. At very least, consumers should be able to avoid it if they choose to.
Genetically Modified Food is Dangerous:
The American Academy of Environmental Medicine Calls for Immediate Moratorium on Genetically Modified Foods
Effect of diets containing genetically modified potatoes expressing Galanthus nivalis lectin on rat small intestine
A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health
GM genes 'jump species barrier'
GM pollen 'can kill butterflies'
State-of-the-Science on the Health Risks of GM Food
The FDA exhibits one more reason why it has become irrelevant and contrary to the interests of consumers.
I am against the FDA, but as long as it exists, it ought to actually do what it is supposed to do. Customers want to know if food is coming from genetically-modified organisms, and the FDA wants to protect the GMO food and keep these foods hidden on your grocery store shelves without labels.
Genetically Modified Food is Dangerous:
The American Academy of Environmental Medicine Calls for Immediate Moratorium on Genetically Modified Foods
Effect of diets containing genetically modified potatoes expressing Galanthus nivalis lectin on rat small intestine
A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health
GM genes 'jump species barrier'
GM pollen 'can kill butterflies'
State-of-the-Science on the Health Risks of GM Food
The FDA exhibits one more reason why it has become irrelevant and contrary to the interests of consumers.
