If you Label something it will scare consumers away…

Thing is, you won’t know if the food you’re buying in your grocery is GMO if industry gets its way.

Genetically modified isn’t labeled.  Unbelievable, but Jose Fernandez, State Department assistant secretary for economic, energy, and business affairs, actually said that if genetically engineered food were labeled it would scare consumers away.

“If you label something, there’s an implication there’s something wrong with it,” said Fernandez while he spoke at a CropLife International meeting.

CropLife represents Monsanto, DuPont and other biotech giants.  They’re all against labeling GMO food, and now you know why. [from Organic Consumers' Association newsletter, #299]

Much soy, and corn is genetically modified.  Unless the food product says, “Organic,” or “Non-GMO” you know it’s probably genetically modified.  I for one refuse to buy it.

My family and I have been eating these wonderful, smallish corn/wheat tortillas.  Our family loves them for quick meals with beans, rice, tomatoes, avocado, and cheese.  But I’m no longer purchasing them because I’m not sure of the corn.  I wrote to the company.  “The corn you use in your great tortillas, is the corn genetically modified?  I’ll let you know if they answer…

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