Right to Know

As a follow up to my previous post, Decode the Codes, about how to read PLU labels at the grocery store, there are active campaigns through Label GMOs and Just Label It advocating for clear labels in all of our stores.




Simply put, we have the right to know what's in our food. Watch this great video to learn why labeling GMOs is so important and why we all should join the fight.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ep4uxbhsvI&feature=youtu.be&noredirect=1

More than 80% of processed foods at U.S. grocery stores are likely to contain genetically engineered ingredients. 

And you wouldn't know it, because the FDA doesn't require labels for foods with genetically engineered (GE) ingredients ‒ also called genetically modified organisms (GMOs). 

Genetically engineered (GE) foods, also referred to as genetically modified, or GMOs, are those that are altered at the molecular level in ways that could not happen naturally. This means plants and animals that have had their genetic makeup altered to exhibit traits that are not naturally theirs. These techniques use DNA molecules from different sources, sometimes different species, and combine them into one molecule to create a new set of genes (e.g. mixing of flounder genes into tomatoes so the tomatoes would be resistant to cold temperatures.)

For more info about GE foods, click here.