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Food Labeling Persuasive Essay

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America is among the most obese countries in the world only surpassed by countries with a small population. This is probably a surprise to no one. However with so much exposure to obesity in America, why hasn’t a drastic change occurred and why do the obesity rates do nothing but increase every year? The reason behind our increased obesity is not because we’re a nation incapable of making our own healthy food choices, it is because we are impetuously handing our money to food corporations who put fattening and not necessarily healthy ingredients in our food without our knowledge. The food industry keeps secrets from us in many ways, including the spread of genetically modified organisms and why Monsanto is trying to hide this, why there is …show more content…

The companies that are a part of the Coalition Against the Costly Food Labeling Proposition believe that adding labels to genetically modified foods would cause their customers to drift. However, it is only beneficial to Americans that the food industry would open up and label their food correctly, as it would aid them in making more informed food choices. Genetically engineered foods, or foods that contain ingredients wholly or partially synthesized, are not proven to be either safe or unsafe. However, the Coalition Against the Costly Food Labeling Proposition still has a problem with labeling their foods - why? Their name supposedly says it all, labeling GMO foods is costly. The Just Label It Campaign says otherwise, with the price of GMO food labels being estimated at “a mere $2.30 per person per year”. Multi-billion dollar companies seem to be able to spend large amounts of money campaigning against food labeling, with over $44 million being raised by the Coalition so that they would not have to label their foods. The top donor, Monsanto, has a controversial history. They put a total of $8,112,069 into the Coalition Against the Costly Food Labeling Proposition, and have also funded research organizations so that the results of research on GMOs is biased in their favor. One example of how Monsanto has influenced multiple researchers is in the

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The Non-GMO talk passionately about the effects GMOs have on human bodies and the environment. They do have valid statements such as, “In the absence of credible independent long-term feeding studies, the safety of GMOs is unknown” (Non-GMO Project). This is completely true. There have been no long-term studies on what GMOs can do to humans which can be a caution people can take when deciding of they want to consume products that have been genetically modified. However, the other of this argument, the people against GMOs, have created such a panic within the rest of the country that many decide to get GMO free products just in case there are negative effects.

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In March, Whole Foods Markets announced that by 2018 all of their products that have been Genetically Modified will be labeled. This caused an uproar in Monsanto and other other companies involved in the the idea of Genetically Modified foods, and also grabbed much media attention.(Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods) “The Movements against GMO’s have caused widespread trouble for the corrupt corporations. “People against Monsanto” and even “PETA” have joined in the argument as well have opened the eyes of many people who normally buy these GM brand foods and deterred them away.” (Wohlers)

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Genetic modification is the alteration of an organism's genes to acquire desired characteristics (Kracht para 1). Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are in over 70% of products produced in the United States, especially since most contain traces of corn, soybean, rice or canola, which are some of the popularly grown genetically modified crops. (Steinhauer and Strom para 20). Currently, companies are not required to label GMO-containing products, however, some people are pushing to make it a requirement (para 3). Products containing GMOs should not be labeled because products manufactured in the United States have been modified in one way or another, therefore, the FDA should not require GMO labeling.

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Also, some people may not believe in using GMO. Just as well, labels don't even cost very much. GMO should be optional, not putting GMO labels on GMO foods is not giving people the opportunity to choose. America is supposed to be a free country.

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