Frankenfoods
Frankenfoods: It’s What’s in the Inside that Counts During the Neolithic Revolution, human life revolutionized. Humans started living in cities, forming class hierarchies, and organizing labor. However, the most significant turn of the new era was the advent of agriculture. Agriculture made the Neolithic Revolution truly a “revolution” by removing the need for humans to move from place to place in search for a meal and giving humans the ability to feed not only their families, but their friends and neighbors. Now in the twenty-first century, a new dawn approaches humanity. Humans are approaching the domain of God, speeding up the natural processes of evolution to shape nature to their needs in a new revolution: the Green Revolution. By splicing
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Under President Barack Obama, these advocates won a victory with a bill requiring the labelling of bioenhanced foods. The new policy of labelling has cost plenty for biotechnology and food companies. First of all, the act of labelling implies danger, leading to unfair discrimination towards genetically engineered foods. According to the AAAS Board of Directors, efforts in labelling altered foods are “not driven by evidence that GM foods are actually dangerous”, leading to consumers to avoid a growing industry based on unfounded fear (AAAS). This is not a hypothetical situation; this situation was seen in Europe when the European Union began requiring foods containing genetically enhanced products to be labeled in 1997. Due to the labelling, by 1999, most of the major European retailers removed scientifically altered ingredients from their products (Scientific American). Instead of giving consumers “consumer choice”, GMO labelling in the European Union actually reduced consumer choice by preventing genetically modified foods from even entering the market and it is likely a repeat of this event will occur in the United States. Second of all, in addition to limiting consumer choice, the labelling of bioengineered foods causes many food businesses to spend countless dollars on human resources to verify that their products do not contain any “frankenfoods” by ensuring that their suppliers do not use enhanced seeds. The immense amount of money spent by these corporations would go back to the consumer through increased food prices. According to the Northbridge Environmental Management Consultants, GMO labelling in California would raise the annual food bill of a Californian by four hundred dollars (Scientific
Under President Barack Obama, these advocates won a victory with a bill requiring the labelling of bioenhanced foods. The new policy of labelling has cost plenty for biotechnology and food companies. First of all, the act of labelling implies danger, leading to unfair discrimination towards genetically engineered foods. According to the AAAS Board of Directors, efforts in labelling altered foods are “not driven by evidence that GM foods are actually dangerous”, leading to consumers to avoid a growing industry based on unfounded fear (AAAS). This is not a hypothetical situation; this situation was seen in Europe when the European Union began requiring foods containing genetically enhanced products to be labeled in 1997. Due to the labelling, by 1999, most of the major European retailers removed scientifically altered ingredients from their products (Scientific American). Instead of giving consumers “consumer choice”, GMO labelling in the European Union actually reduced consumer choice by preventing genetically modified foods from even entering the market and it is likely a repeat of this event will occur in the United States. Second of all, in addition to limiting consumer choice, the labelling of bioengineered foods causes many food businesses to spend countless dollars on human resources to verify that their products do not contain any “frankenfoods” by ensuring that their suppliers do not use enhanced seeds. The immense amount of money spent by these corporations would go back to the consumer through increased food prices. According to the Northbridge Environmental Management Consultants, GMO labelling in California would raise the annual food bill of a Californian by four hundred dollars (Scientific