{"id":1918,"date":"2022-01-08T08:31:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T16:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aladaymobilemedia.com\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2022-01-08T08:35:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T16:35:33","slug":"trying-to-unravel-gmo-food-labeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aladaymobilemedia.com\/fr\/trying-to-unravel-gmo-food-labeling\/","title":{"rendered":"Trying to Unravel GMO Food Labeling…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trying to understand the new food labeling laws.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n

\"\"On January 1, 2022 a new food labeling law went into effect. Seems we no longer have\u00a0Genetically Modified <\/strong><\/em>anymore. Instead we now have\u00a0Bioengineered\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>foods. Sounds a little ominous. None the less this is what our wonderful elected officials decided was the answer to\u00a090% <\/strong>of their constituents…which means 90% of the USA wanted proper food labeling. Obama told us<\/a> …THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW WHERE THEIR FOOD COMES FROM…That was at the Iwoa cacus and he sold Iwoa and got the nod.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Label to look for<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The following is an article from US Right To Know. My commentary will be in\u00a0italics. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Advocates for consumers\u2019 right to know are suing the U.S. Department of Agriculture over new labeling standards for genetically engineered foods that went into effect this week in the U.S.\u00a0The lawsuit claims the new labeling requirements are confusing and discriminatory; see\u00a0reporting in The Counter.<\/a><\/p>\n

The federal law mandates that companies use the term \u201cbioengineered\u201d on labels, and prohibits them from displaying the more commonly used terms GMO or genetically engineered foods. The law also exempts thousands of highly processed foods containing genetically engineered ingredients, and it allows companies to use QR codes that require consumers to scan a barcode with an electronic device to learn if a product contains GMOs.\u00a0If you think this is BS look here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

How biotech crops can crash, and still never fail:<\/strong>\u00a0In Scientific American<\/a>, scholars Aniket Aga and Maywa Montenegro describe the serious limitations and ongoing scientific controversies plaguing GMO\u00a0crops around the world: \u201ca narrow focus on technology to address the complex structural problems of farming and food has an astonishingly poor track record,\u201d they write. \u201cIn more than two decades of GM crops\u2019 cultivation, nearly every aspect of GM crop research, development and application has stoked\u00a0scientific controversy<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Big biotech\u2019s lobby campaign in Europe:\u00a0<\/strong>In a new briefing paper<\/a>, Friends of the Earth Europe reports on the biotech industry\u2019s lobbying efforts to exempt genome-edited foods from safety checks and labeling in the European Union. GMO \u201cpatent cartels\u00a0feed big business not the world,” the group said. “Since the patenting licenses for CRISPR . . .\u00a0were first made available, one major corporation has been buying up the rights to gate-keep this technology: Corteva\u201d (formerly DowDuPont).<\/p>\n

How safe are biolabs?\u00a0<\/strong>Check out our new web page<\/a>\u00a0of Institutional Biosafety Committee meeting minutes. We’ll post more as we get them.\u00a0You can\u00a0read more here<\/a>\u00a0about the U.S. Right to Know investigation into the origins of Covid-19, the risks of gain-of-function research and mishaps at biolabs.<\/p>\n

Invite your friends to\u00a0sign up for the weekly Right to Know Review<\/a>. And please consider\u00a0donating here<\/a>\u00a0to support our investigations.<\/em><\/p>\n

More food and public health news of the week<\/strong><\/p>\n