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 Ensis Ferrae wrote:
Honestly, I think that something more like a restaurant "peanut alergen warning" would be more appropriate... I mean, could you imagine seeing a product whose ingredient table looked like this:

Carbonated Water (GMO), Sugar (GMO), Orange Juice Concentrate (GMO), Citric Acid (GMO), etc... I mean, I got that off a can of "throwback" Mountain Dew (and added the GMO thing) so you can see how a product with relatively few ingredients wouldn't be that impacted, but those products like cereals, or pasta, or canned vegetable mixes, soups, etc that have a much longer ingredient list would be affected. I'd probably look cleaner (and allow the company to 'hide' or disguise the label better) if there were a blanket "This product was made with ingredients that may contain GMO products".

Honestly, a label like that is exactly what I was thinking of. Just ingredient after ingredient with GMO on it. People will smarten up quickly and realise they've been eating almost entirely GM food for a long time now.

What it will effect is products that attempts to skirt around the issue with a variety of made up labels that imply non-GMO like 'natural', but would now have labels showing that's all bs. Revealing that those products are misleading is a good thing.

The issue with having a 'this product includes no GMO' or similar label is that companies will continue to skirt around it with similar labels that mislead consumers, people will say 'this product is all natural' or 'traditional farm grown' or other stuff that makes people assume there's no genetically modified ingredients.