Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Majority wants GMO labels

Two-thirds of the public in the United States wants labels to show whether food contains genetically-modified organisms (GMO).

That would embrace almost all corn and soybean ingredients.

The public opinion poll was done in December for the Associated Press and GfK.

Seven per cent are opposed to GMO labeling and 24 per cent are neutral.

Fewer Americans say genetically modified ingredients are important to them when judging whether a food is healthy.


About 40 per cent said the presence of such ingredients was very or extremely important to them.

Frankly, I could case less about GMO ingredients. What I'd like to know is the price markup.