Just Label It: Let Us Know It's GMO

Just Label It/YES! Magazine

25 February 12

A tomato with the DNA of a fish, one fish with genes of another, corn that produces its own pesticide - and nothing to say they're any different than the tomatoes, salmon, and corn people have been eating for centuries.

Unlike many developed countries worldwide - such as China, Japan, Australia, and all the members of the EU - there is no law in the United States requiring food manufacturers to label their products as containing Genetically Engineered (GE) or Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).

A new campaign by the organization Just Label It seeks to push the FDA to start requiring GMOs be listed on food labels - a move that 93 percent of Americans support. The project has generated 600,000 comments so far.