GMOs: Great modern opportunities (commentary)

The obsession with knowing how our food is raised, manufactured and processed  dates back to 1906 when Upton Sinclair penned The Jungle, a look at the dark side of the meat industry and caused the Pure Food & Drug Act to be passed. I don’t think the majority of consumers actually read the labels at the supermarkets as they make their choices based on taste, cost, quality, appearance and maybe what is on sale that day. Certainly I did not know that almost all milk containers had the little disclaimer on the bottom of the front label saying their cows were not injected with any artificial hormones until I did some work with Elanco on the product, a product which, by the way, is a Genetically Modified (GM) product and IS used extensively in the cheese and yogurt making process. But many advocacy groups and most consumers, it seems, are asking for all products containing GM food or GMOs, genetically modified organisms, be labeled as such.