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The US federal government claims that the food supply in this country is the safest in the world. Though antibiotic resistant bacteria in food animals and chemical residues on produce might lead some to conclude otherwise. Now, let's consider genetically altered food. This technology has gone on the consumer market largely untested. Independent studies have shown an array of potentially devastating outcomes, yet the FDA has not required further testing. Every industrialised nation in the world has banned or restricted the use of genetically altered foods, but not the US where there aren't even labelling requirements. Why?
Ronnie Cummins is director of the Organic Consumers Association, a national organisation of consumers opposed to factory farming and genetic engineering. He is editor of BioDemocracy News an online newsletter and co-author of Genetically Engineered Food.
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