Everyone wants transparency about their food, at least on surveys, but few people actually read the labels. When surveys don't have unprompted responses (like "What do you want to read on a label?" versus "Do you want GMO foods listed on a label?") only 7 percent of Americans want to know about GMO foods, far less than even care about fat-free or gluten. So efforts by anti-science groups such as Environmental Working Group, Union of Concerned Scientists, Greenpeace and Natural Resources Defense Council to put warning labels on foods containing any product genetically modified (such as containing corn syrup made from GMO corn) have seemed to get interest from the public, until the public realizes that environmental groups are basically always lobbying for poor people to have less money - higher costs will always be passed on to consumers.
Erin Gallagher, writing for the Chicago Tribune, cuts to the heart of the issue:
First, there is no reputable, peer-reviewed research opposing GM foods. Instead, groups with anti-GM agendas have made claims based on small studies not endorsed by the scientific community.
To the contrary, here is a partial list of the thousands of organizations whose research supports GM foods the National Academy of Sciences, American Medical Association, World Health Organization, American Council on Science and Health, United Nations and the World Food Programme.
So, basically everyone in science disagrees with all those groups who hire a lot of lawyers and who turn the political science majors that raise the most money into "policy directors."
Thanks for instead siding with the evidence, Chicago Tribune.
