Food Labeling Is Taking A Change Costing Us $1,000 More A Year At Grocery Store

Washington D.C. – March 17, 2015 – GMO Food Labels are in the news this week. The senate this week, and then the house next week, were going to discuss should food products be labeled to indicate they contain genetically modified ingredients? This seems to be the most hotly debated issue in food right now. But it fell in the senate by one vote on Wednesday so it won’t move onto the house.

Farm Bureau stated that labels would inherently suggest something is wrong with foods containing GMOs, even though numerous major scientific bodies — from the American Association for the Advancement of Science to the World Health Organization to the American Medical Association — insist genetically modified foods are safe to eat.

Unfortunately, forcing an unneeded label would raise grocery bills for the average American family by more than $1,000 a year, according to studies looked at by Farm Bureau

BioTech folks pointed out yesterday in a session for Michigan FarmBbureau Members that’s science has been selectively changing and choosing the best food traits for the last 10,000 years since wild corn and wild bananas and wild tomatoes wild cucumbers are almost un-edible. They are very small with mostly seeds and little food substance to eat. The wild bananas are filled with nasty tasting seeds and wild cukes have such sharp prickers on the outside you can’t touch them. Scientists have just chosen to reuse the seeds from plants that have produced more desirable traits to provide more and adequate food to feed the billions of people in the world. They have also identified the genes that help a plant survive in our changing conditions and they can cross breed or insert the one or two needed genes from the original wild sources for the plant to thrive and produce more safe wholesome needed food for the world.

American Farm Bureau Expert Andrew Walmsley spoke to us yesterday about this topic and I had a chance to talk to him for 2 minutes afterwards. Hove over the left side of the box to hear Andrew.