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Originally Posted by Slipknot

Labeling GMO is not a hardship on industry, just look at how many already label their organic stuff NON GMO And also why do you think the rest of the world labels GMO? They don't have a problem labeling it, why should we?.

I think there's a few reasons behind the resistance.

One is that I'm pretty sure the US consumes the most processed food of any nation by a good margin. Crops like corn and soybeans which are primarily from GMO seeds are rampant in these products.

Second, the FDA has very strict regulations, perhaps the most stringent in the world. Currently that bag of non-GMO corn chips is being labeled voluntarily as non-GMO. This means the producer does need to have documentation as to the provenance of the ingredients, but the simplistic ingredients and niche appeal of most of the non-GMO products I see doesn't make this a huge burden. Also, nobody is really watching...

But...If GMO labeling is a regulation, everybody, especially the big food manufacturers are going to have to have solid documentation behind their claims. For a large food producer that actually has a tiered supply chain from raw material to consumable food in a package this is very complicated. For instance, if that jar of non-GMO Jiff peanut butter accidentally sourced non-GMO soybean oil from one country made from mislabeled soybeans in another country it's a recall and huge $$$. All for soybeans that could be genetically identical.

Actually under FDA regulations if the labeling in any way doesn't match what's inside the package you have to recall.

So there is a business impact, and the US market exacerbates it.