Finally, a national campaign to label GMO foods

UPDATE: The comments are filled with interesting links. Please check them out.
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It's food week here at AMERICAblog it seems; see John's good post about lettuce below.

I've written before about GMO (genetically modified) foods. It's a serious and world-wide issue. Now there's a national campaign to get the stuff labeled, at the very least.

As HuffPost writer Jennifer Grayson points out at her own site:

[E]very other developed nation in the world has either banned genetically modified foods or mandated their labeling, [but] there are currently no labeling laws for GM products in the US.

This is insane. The federal government has no problem slapping graphic warning labels on a pack of cigarettes; so why, when it comes to something that affects all of us — the food we eat every day — are we left dining in the dark?

The new campaign is called Just Label It, from the Environmental Working Group. To help convince you, they've produced this clever ad:



If you care, click to sign the petition. Thanks!

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