Ethical Issues With Gmo Labeling

Ethics It’s easy to see that issues surrounding GMOs is a complex one. We’ve seen how neither side is able to prove the safety of GMOs, and how consumers are worried about increasing grocery costs. Now let’s explore the companies and their reasoning for not wanting labels on their products. Companies that created GMO seeds, did so with the reasoning that in order to feed a population that will reach nine billion people by the year 2050 (www.un.org). This idea has opponents questioning that if feeding the world was their goal, then why wouldn’t you be proud of it and have your product labeled? Instead of getting their products labeled companies like Monsanto and DuPont lobby for representative to propose bills that if passed would make labeling GMOs, even voluntary labeling, …show more content…
According to Anthony Gucciardi, Founder of Natural Society, bills like the Trans Pacific Partnership, “could restrict GMO labeling in the United States and abroad.” According to some experts, the Trans Pacific Partnership could even make GMO labeling illegal altogether. On June 29, 2015 President Obama signed the Trans Pacific Partnership into law delivering a devastating blow to opponents of GMOs. Even though this bill was officially signed, there are still a lot of things to hash out with this bill. This may offer a glimpse of hope on the issue to people who want GMOs labeled. This is not the only bill that had opponents of GMOs worried, a similar bill was proposed back in 2014 called the, “Safe and Accurate Food labeling Act.” This bill would have given GMO food labeling authority to the Food and Drug Administration, an organization that highly favors a voluntary approach to