Genetically modified foods: a feeding system in need of improvement?

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[...] Smith, J. (2007). “Genetically engineered foods may cause rising food allergies.” Total Health, 22-23. Thompson, P. (1997). Food biotechnology's challenge to cultural integrity and individual consent. Hastings Center Report, 34. [...]

[...] In some cases, researchers have found that allergies to food may be a result of the genetically modified foods that many Americans have been eating. In the United States, huge jump in childhood food allergies in the U.S. is in the news often, but most reports fail to consider a link to a recent radical change in America's diet” (Smith 2007), and the diet that this report is referring to is the increased consumption of genetically engineered foods. While eating this kind of food once in a while usually does not have very detrimental effects since the human body is able to handle such variety, this is not the case when a person is constantly consuming genetically modified foods. [...]

[...] Genetically Modified Foods: A Feeding System in Need of Improvement? Genetically engineered food has become a very controversial topic over the past few decades, and the issue continues to gain importance as more companies are producing genetically engineered/modified foods. The process of genetic engineering involves taking food products, alternating their genetic makeup in order to somehow “improve” the product, and then mass produce the products and sell it to consumers. In most cases, companies that make these genetically engineered foods do not disclose the information to consumers, since there is no law (in the United States) requiring companies to do so. [...]

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[...] This problem of not informing consumers has become standard in the United States, and the Congress is not doing anything about the issue. One solution would be to pass laws requiring food companies to disclose more information and inform consumers about what they are digesting, however this is not the policy as of today. In other countries and regions of the world, the policies against genetically modified foods are often very strict, unlike that of the United States: “European resistance to transgenic crops is not strictly a cultural or regional phenomenon. [...]