Tuesday, 21 June 2011

which should we label? Organic or GM???

Just a thought when i was reading an article about labeling GM food.
In the past, the food we ate are mostly organic, however, as the year passes by, in order to have a higher profit within a shorter time, genetic engineering was introduced shortly after pesticides was being used. Now, the problem is that these genetically modified food, also known as GM food, are not being labelled as there is no strict regulations or requirements. However, organic food are needed to be labelled.

Why couldn't it be the other way round instead? Or, perhaps both?

Some religious may need to be aware of GM food as some may contain traces of certain animal's gene which they could not consume. Without the labeling, the different religious may consume the food without knowing what is in the food. If the food was being labelled with a label saying GM food or traces of animal genes found, wouldn't it be much better? The different religious and vegetarians would have a better idea of what are the types of food they are buying and could avoid the food they need to avoid.

-FM

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