OPINION: Consumers deserve to know what’s on their dinner plates
Every day we are confronted with the choice of what to feed ourselves and our families. We try to make decisions based on the information available for the food products we are buying. Unfortunately, we can’t choose to avoid or purchase genetically engineered food products, or GMOs, because they are not labeled. We are left in the dark about the food we put on our dinner plates.
There is no state law that requires the labeling of GMOs, so even if we want to avoid them we don’t have an option.
Dozens of food items in the grocery store contain GMOs that could potentially pose risks to the human body. Yet, without a label, we don’t know which items contain them and which do not.
Unless the New York state legislature passes a mandatory GMO labeling bill, we have no way of knowing whether or not the apple in our shopping cart has been genetically altered.