Another journalist bemoans that according to one US survey, 88 per cent of scientists think
GMO foods are safe to eat, while only 37 per cent of the public feel so assured.
A recent consumer survey of 1,000 participants conducted between March 28 and April 7, 2014, by the International Food Council found that 63 percent of Americans support the FDA's current voluntary policy for labeling
GMO foods, a percentage that is consistent with survey findings in previous years.
Many activists have fought to limit GMO crop planting and require labeling of
GMO foods, but the major agricultural companies argue that
GMO foods have no history of health problems and labeling them is unnecessary.
ENSSER argues that since
GMO foods are not currently labeled in the United States.--the world's key producer and consumer of GMOs--it is scientifically impossible to trace patterns of consumption and their consequences.
Although safety and long-term effects of
GMO foods has not yet been determined.
5977 prohibits the production of
GMO foods in Turkey and makes it mandatory to secure permission from the ministry to transport these products through Turkey.
"The demand for GMO-free labelling seems set to continue to grow as a marketing tool globally," Lu Ann Williams concluded "as even where
GMO foods have to be labelled, such as in the EU, there is still apparently demand for easy recognition of GMO-free lines as the use of logos and certification schemes continues to grow."
Des Moines, working through Food & Water Watch, campaigned in favor of labeling
GMO foods and is continuing its yearlong exploration of food choices.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) awarded
GMO foods "generally regarded as safe" (GRAS) status.
First introduced in the mid-1990s, the primary sources of
GMO foods are in industrial crops, including soybeans, corn/maize, rapeseed (canola oil), cotton, and sugar beets.
Resistance to
GMO foods in the United States is growing, as is resistance to corporate cronyism favoring companies like agrigiant Monsanto.
What is happening is that the sky is being sprayed with aluminum oxide, strontium oxide and barium oxide - these are making us sick, these are destroying natural plant life and the rich soils on earth so that
GMO foods can be promoted.