CBS Evening News ran an excellent story yesterday on the pervasiveness of genetically engineered food in American pantries and focused on the absence of labeling. The clip is above, the full text is here.

In this news clip, Marion Nestle, a former FDA advisor and author of What to Eat (also a terrific blog), explains that industries fought hard to keep GMOs from being labeled because they feared nobody would buy them. This makes sense, of course, especially in light of a new CBS poll that found nearly 90 percent of consumers would like GMO ingredients to be labeled. "Yet the U.S. Congress has never even held a vote on the issue, to give shoppers the opportunity to exercise their most basic right -- to make a choice," CBS's Armen Keteyian says.

And at the end of the day, that's the central issue of this debate: providing consumers choice, regardless of our government's approval of GMOs. Thank you, CBS. It's investigative reporting like this that makes GMO ingredients a bit less hidden.

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written by sophia, May 12, 2008

I'm thrilled that this is getting more attention in the media now! But what can we do to get our food labeled? Is there a petition anywhere that I can sign??

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Food Politics
written by AllergyKids, May 13, 2008

At AllergyKids, we have helped draft a letter to legislators that you can sign to urge our government to label genetically engineered proteins, toxins and allergens in foods given the risk that they appear to present to the 1 in 3 American children that now have autism, ADHD, allergies and asthma.

You can learn more at www.allergykids.com where the link to the Letter to Congress is also available here: http://www.allergykids.com/index.php?id=33, as well as on our Blog, FOOD POLITICS.

With inspired hope for our children.

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Not Surprised
written by Dagny McKinley, May 14, 2008

Europe has been labeling their foods that contain GMO's. As well, most countries outside the US have banned the growing of GMO's in their countries because it contaminates other crops. Not only that, no one knows the effects of GMO's on the human body. They haven't been around long enough for studies to have been done. Once again the US is allowing potentially harmful products to flood supermarkets without being honest with consumers. When does respect for human life overtake profit?

Dagny McKinley
www.onnotextiles.com
organic apparel

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