Food Labeling

After reading the chapters from The Omnivore’s Dilemma, I immediately thought of how the food corporations have so much control over everything that we eat. The chapters described how corn is heavily used because it is cheap. Many of the things we eat are either made with corn products or were fed corn. Many people do not change what they eat even when they do know what they are eating and I am guilty of this. Even if people are not going to immediately change their habits it is important to at least be allowed to be aware of what you are eating. There are people that do not think genetically modified food should be strictly labeled and this concept is insane to me. It is the food corporations that put forth these ideas, but I can’t see how anyone that is not a part of the corporations or being paid by them could be convinced to agree with this and yet there are people that do. When senators voted in Washington in 2016 on whether they supported legislation against strict GMO labeling, the results were saddening. 63 senators voted against the labeling and only 30 voted for the right to know what you are eating. The result of this vote was the result of corporations in politics.

Work Cited

Lugo, Dianne. “U.S. Senate passes GM food labeling bill.” Science | AAAS, AAAS, 8 July 2016, www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/07/us-senate-passes-gm-food-labeling-bill.