Genetically Modified Foods

In Germany and much of Europe one isn’t able to easily find genetically modified foods. This being due to laws that require the labeling of such foods and consumers, now being informed of them, not wanting to buy these foods. This isn’t the case in the United States, where no such labeling laws exist. With the last election though the US saw another attempt to change this and begin to follow Germany’s lead, with California's proposition 37 which would have been the first US law to require labeling of Genetically modified foods. Surprisingly though BASF and Bayer, both being German companies, contributed large amounts to the campaign to prevent the labeling of genetically modified foods. At the same time many polls of German and American opinions of these foods show that they both agree on wanting such foods to be labeled. Though proposition 37 did not pass, it seems clear that Americans tend to agree with Germans and that this will not be that last effort here in the US to follow in Germany, and most of Europe’s footsteps in labeling genetically modified foods.

-Stuart