Thursday, 7 July 2011

Are GM foods well regulated?

Answer is NO again!
- GM foods have never been properly tested and therefore should never have been approved. In the grocery shelves, thousand of products probably contain GM ingredients or GM material. We don't know how many exactly because of loophols in the labelling regulations, which suit industry very well - what we don't know about, we can't protect against.

-The bad news is that all of this means that even well-informed people think they are eating a GM free diet, when they are not. Before long - unless we fight even harder to get our labelling laws tightened and GM thwarted at every opportunity - GM will be in everything.

- The good news is that GM regulations are fairly decent and GM contamination has benn kept to a comparative minimum. Consumer rejection and strng anti-GM policies from the supermarkets have seen to this.

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