Substantial equivalence

Last evening I watched a documentary on the Sundance Channel about Monsanto. It is a French movie called "The World According to Monsanto". For me it basically confirmed most of what I already knew about them and how they have been able to use corporate power and influence to push its agenda in the name of financial gain.

As you may already know GMO, genetically modified foods, can not be labeled as such in the United States. They do not have to be tested to see if there is any potential harm caused my the modification. It would seem quite reasonable that testing should be done. Currently if foods have dyes added to change the color and other additives are put into foods they are tested for a variety of things, including cancer. Why would you not test a food where you genetically alter its structure.

In testing these foods it has been shown that the food has potential to do harm. They have tested the item being added to the food and the food itself before the modification and things seem to be fine. However it seems that when the two are put together there is cause for alarm because cancer and other potential health issues have been found.

Since it has been determined that foods do not have to be label there has been an explosion of GMO foods onto the market. This is all driven by financial gain and nothing else.

We have a right to know what we are eating and need to force to government to change the labeling laws to correctly identify what we are actually eating.

It is time Americans actually rallied around something that will make an actual difference in the way our foods are produced and the implications it will have for future generations. Unfortunatley I suspect that as long as food is cheap people just do not care what potential harm is being done. They seem to forget that if we forced them to grow and produce healthier foods that they would have to learn to do this in a way that we could afford as the public at large and earn them the profits they desire.

Please take a look at "substantial equivalence" and see what you think. I suspect that you will not like what you find.

Picture is of organic peppers at a farmers market.