The Coalition for Safe Affordable Food say they plan for a national standard that would allow manufacturers to voluntarily label food and beverage products made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The Center for Food Safety says over 30 states are expected to introduce GMO labeling laws during the 2014 legislative session.
In the US, GMOs are in as much as 80% of conventional processed food. GMOs are engineered to withstand direct application of herbicide and/or to produce an insecticide. Polls consistently show that a significant majority of Americans want to know if the food they’re purchasing contains GMOs.
