To Our Senate: The Countries that Label GMOs (& How Hostess Labels Them)
Today, the Senate Ag Committee voted to take away Americans right to know if their foods contain genetically engineered ingredients. They also voted to take away the rights of states that were trying to step in and label GMOs.
Do members of the Senate not know that companies like Hostess already label GMOs in other countries? Do they not know that all of our American food companies label GMOs overseas, despite saying that they can’t label GMOs because it’s too expensive?
Hostess labels its Ding Dongs overseas, Doritos are labeled, Coca Cola labels its sodas, as seen in this image from a London grocery store, sent by a flight attendant who works for Delta.
American food companies already label GMOs overseas. Food prices didn’t skyrocket. Families weren’t priced out of Twinkies, farmers didn’t go over because of the labeled Ding Dong, they simply added a few words “Derived from a genetically modified source.”
Why? Because it is simple. American food companies added these labels for 60% of the world’s population.
Here is a list of countries that label GMOs:
- Australia
- Austria
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Cameroon
- China
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Ireland
- Italy
- Japan
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malaysia
- Mali
- Malta
- Mauritius
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Peru
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- Vietnam
The double standard has to stop. Please share this, so that all Americans (and our Senators) can know this information, too.