“Actions speak louder than words” but in this case results speak louder than words. Just because the labels say it's safe, right? How can something that was only recently discovered be considered safe when we don't know the long-term results? Hearing that my food has been “genetically modified” seems screwed up from the start. The people of our countries trust what they consume through the words spoken by people they have never even met and by people who just want to make a lot of money with whatever it takes. Do you really think that the entrepreneurs who run the food system actually eat the average food found in a grocery store? Doubtful. Between 1997 and 1999, genetically modified food ingredients suddenly appeared in 2/3 of all processed foods in the United States. Genetically modified foods have been banned in the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia and two dozen other countries due to lack of knowledge about the long-term effect of GMOs and the long-term health effects could cause to humans and the environment. If all these other countries are banning something like this, then why is America being so sneaky and not even labeling food that contains GMOs? Scientists fear that by consuming these foods, their mutant genes may be transmitted as bacteria into the digestive system, and no one yet knows how the body will handle this problem. So why aren't foods containing GMOs labeled? According to the New York Times, the FDA and USDA do not want to label foods containing GMOs because they do not want to make people understand that these foods could be "different". We are the only country that tries to hide what is going on behind our food, when about 75% of our food in the United States contains GMOs. For starters, GMOs require huge... half paper... neys for campaigns? I clearly disagree, but there are some benefits to some extent of GMOs. Which would be that they provide large amounts of food in short periods of time and claim that this helps world hunger (not completely) and makes food cheaper for those who can't afford anything else, but they also built it to be so way so they're actually just benefits that forced to be benefits. For example, if someone stole your shoes on a hike but gave you socks, you would be grateful for the socks because they are better than nothing. GMOs are not a bad thing in general, both for us humans, for animals and for the surrounding environment both in nature and in society. It's mostly just a problem in the US and it's something that should be changed and we should try to understand why other countries are so threatened by it and keep it away as much as possible.