The Pros And Cons Of Gmo Labeling

Millions of people around the world want to know what they’re eating and what’s inside of their foods, but there are millions of others that don’t. In the most recent election in Oregon, Measure 92 has had a recount of all of its votes because of how close the final tallies were. GMO labeling is an abbreviation for “Genetically Modified Organism” and it can refer to animals and plant gene-splicing, which genetically modify its DNA. Some plants could be genetically made to make certain characteristics to increase the growth of nutritional profiles of food crops. Why do people want their foods to show what it’s made of? What are the pros and cons for GMO labeling?
Even though there are some bad things when it comes to the labeling, there are

With labeling, the risk that people that attribute to it would drop with increasing results. A consumer wants to know what is in their food, and it would only be fair since they are already paying for the food. It would be the right thing to do to give them the chance to see and know of their foods. There are a lot of people who believe that the companies who produce the foods are already telling the consumers everything that is in the foods when reading the ingredients sections, when others think that they’re hiding hundreds of things. But, if they weren’t hiding anything, GMO labeling wouldn’t be much of an issue. The FDA states that “plants must meet the same requirements, including safety requirements, as foods from traditionally bred plants.” This would give people closure about knowing the facts of their foods. Genetically Modified Foods usually are corn, cotton, canola oil, or soybeans. They are usually made to make ingredients for other foods. Through a consultation process that the FDA has done to certain plants, they have shown that those plants are as nutritious as the traditionally bred

There have been no real long-term studies on humans conducted on the safety of these foods. There are many bad things when it comes to the labeling, such as the pricing. The website Label GMOs states that “GMOs have not been proven safe, and the long-term health risks on humans of genetically modified foods have not been adequately investigated.” Because of this, the consumer isn’t entirely sure what the health risks are for the genetically modified foods.
The Berkeley Blog states that if African and European markets would have adopted GMO’s, their pricing would have been more expensive. That means if the law was to be passed here in Oregon, the prices here would raise, making the prices of the foods that were once the cheap foods more expensive. When it came to testing, there were no tests for the genetically modified foods. When releasing the foods, they have never done state of the art tests by the FDA stating that their foods are safe enough to eat. They are just guessing that the food is safe to