Lab Rats.

Firstly, not many people are aware that we have been unknowingly consuming genetically modified organisms for the past ten years. When the United States, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the marketing of genetically modified products, they made an exception of the use the “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) status. This status permits genetically modified goods to be supplied without any additional testing, or labelling it as a genetically modified product. Many unlabelled products caused consumers to have major allergic reactions because they were unaware of what they are actually consuming. If genetically modified foods are not labelled, consumers are not able to exercise their rights, whereas organic products are always labelled, and contain natural vitamins and minerals. Organic products are also known to contain “50% more nutrients” then “intensively farmed” crops (Louise, n.d). It is only imaginable how vastly the amount of natural nutrition can diminish if the gene modification laboratories continue experimenting with public unaware to the fact of being treated as lab rats.