The labeling of GMOs in foods and products is American citizens consequential right to veracious and transparent information about the foods they eat. Yet, the “Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), one of the hidden architects of HR 1599, managed to convince the House of Representatives that GMO Labeling would increase food cost, on average by $500 just for a family living in New York” (Mercola, “Would GMO Labeling Really Raise Food Prices”). However, in contradiction to their own verbalization and worried of keeping consumers from their right to know, food makers expressed they were disposed to print QR codes on products in lieu of just printing the words that the product may have been genetically produced. QR codes, meaning "quick response,