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  • From: EJ <emj@uvic.ca>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Why Aren’t G.M.O. Foods Labeled?
  • Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:48:00 -0800

If you want to avoid sugar, aspartame, trans-fats, MSG, or just about anything else, you read the label. If you want to avoid G.M.O.’s — genetically modified organisms — you’re out of luck. They’re not listed. You could, until now, simply buy organic foods, which by law can’t contain more than 5 percent G.M.O.’s. Now, however, even that may not work.

In the last three weeks, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved three new kinds of genetically engineered (G.E.) foods: alfalfa (which becomes hay), a type of corn grown to produce ethanol), and  sugar beets. And the approval by the Food and Drug Administration of a super-fast-growing salmon — the first genetically modified animal to be sold in the U.S., but probably not the last — may not be far behind.

By MARK BITTMAN

More: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/why-arent-g-m-o-foods-labeled/


  • [Livingontheland] Why Aren’t G.M.O. Foods Labeled?, EJ, 02/16/2011

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