Big Food Companies Want to Call Gmo Foods 'natural'

big food companies not surprisingly want to call genetically modified foods natural Anthony sent me this story and last week or the week before ike had kinda just an open question to our audience what do you consider to be the biggest scams biggest legal scams and i actually mention that the term natural for food labeling is basically a scam in the sense that it's meaningless it is unregulated term that really doesn't tell us much about what is in the food and now big food companies are lobbying to have genetically modified foods labeled as natural the grocery Manufacturers Association which is the trade group that represents the really big food companies like ConAgra Bayer crop science in coca-cola the wrote a letter to the FDA saying GMA's members have a strong interest in natural labeling for foods containing ingredients derived from biotechnology several love the most common ingredients derived from biotechnology are from crops such as soy the corn canola and sugar beets there are 65 class action lawsuits that have been filed against food manufacturers over whether foods with ingredients allegedly derived from biotechnology can be labeled as natural g.na intends to file a citizen petition solely direct at asking FDA to issue a regulation authorizing foods containing foods derived from biotechnology it always makes me sick to say that to be labeled as natural now the Environmental Working Group is absolutely against this they say the genetic engineering by its very definition is not a natural process that it is a new process it is a natural process and it should be labeled as such on the one hand Louis we don't yet know whether GM owes are actually dangerous to health we interview doctor church about this it is not totally clear that eating GM owes is bad for health however it's not clear that it isn't bad right now and there is absolutely no question that until we have many years the research on that on that topic we should be labeling foods for what they are there is no question that people want to know if the food they're buying has been genetically modified and the labeling GM owes as natural is going to further confuse and make even more absurd the lacquered meaning that the term natural has when it comes to food labeling yeah we definitely need more regulation with regard to terms for food in terminology on packaging because it's incredibly misleading and it it's important people should know what they're reading I think that's pretty simple