Friday, March 4, 2016

Labeling GMOs?

https://www.downtoearth.org/label-gmos/gmo-foods-should-be-labeled

The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA), requires most foods to bear nutrition labeling and requires food labels that bear nutrient content claims and certain health messages to comply with specific requirements. Genetically Modified Foods are the result of where genes from one species are put into another so that it carries certain traits.  I think that everything that is put into the food we're eating should be labeled.  It obviously must be bad for us if they want to inform us of what exactly we are putting into our bodies.  GMOs are currently one of the most health challenges that we face in the 21st century.  Probably because most of us don't know if GMOs are really all that bad.  But the funny thing is that most children's food is genetically modified.  WHICH IS WHY IS SHOULD BE LABELED.  Unfortunately, the FDA rejected the labeling of GMOs.  I believe that we have the right to know where our food comes from or how it is made.  The government should not be in control of what goes into our food, we should.  It is the FDA's job to make sure that our food is good enough for us to eat and honestly, I think they are doing a lousy job.  

1 comment:

  1. I agree that there should be labeling of GMOs in our food labels. That's what labels are there for. But I think they rejected the labeling of GMOs becuase basically everything we eat was modified in some way so the companies think it should just be a given and should not have to say every time that there has been some modification. But on the other hand, corn is in everything so are we just going to take out corn from the label? But yeah I definitely agree with you on that.

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