A Letter to the US Department of Agriculture: Information on Pink Slime

Food matters in a sense that people should inform themselves of what is in their foods. People should not always entrust in the rules and regulations given to farms, factories, and supermarkets or trust that what they’ve purchased is healthy or safe. “If you bother to read the health claims closely (as food marketers make sure consumers seldom do), you will find that there is often less to them that meets the eye” (Pollan 14). Considering the idea that maybe people are to focus on the healthy promising labels; consequently, they’re not reading the fine print. Reading and truly understanding food labels is how food matters. People should research chemicals, ingredients, and products used in the foods they

Many consumers are often not aware that a large number of companies do not label everything they put

About eighty percent of packaged food is infiltrated with harmful substances that is being sold to many people and they do not know what they are even consuming and the detrimental effects it has on them. This is known as a Genetically Modified Organism or a GMO. Genetically Modified Organisms are being sold without it being labeled, so people are not completely informed when purchasing or consuming them. GMOs also have unknown effects and causes that come with it. To protect people from GMOs, the US should ban Genetically Modified foods from being produced and grown in America. Another way to help protect people from eating GMOs is to make all foods sold natural and fresh.

Don’t you just love the smell of bread and butter and the delicious taste of brownies and muffins? Well, now more than 18 million Americans no longer can enjoy the great taste of these gluten foods, thanks to GMOs. GMOs (genetically modified organisms) are the result of a laboratory process where genes are taken from one species and inserted into another in an attempt to obtain a wanted characteristic, however, no one knows the long-term effect of GMOs. Genetically engineered foods are linked to gluten disorders and are known to cause birth defects. So why do people keep eating them? Consumers still inadvertently eat these foods, because there is no warning label to educate them otherwise. Foods with GMO genes need to be labeled so that people won’t unknowingly consume these genetically modified ingredients without their consent.

America is known for being one of the unhealthiest nations in the world. This true statement is able to be traced all the way back to what is in our foods: corn, sugar, salt, and fat. Each of these ingredients are generally okay to consume small amounts. Unfortunetly, many Americans are consuming extremely high amounts of these products, simply because the ingredients are in nearly every meal you can think of. In order to fix this dilemma, the government must take action for their responsibility by requiring food labels to be clear and accurate, boost incentives for marketing healthier foods, and end subsidies for corn and soy, all while encouraging the population to consume healthier foods.

In Zinczenco’s view “I'd say the industry is vulnerable. Fast-food companies are marketing to children a product with proven health hazards and no warning labels. They would do well to protect themselves, and their customers, by providing the nutrition information people need to make informed choices about their products” (Zinczenco, 2002.) In making this comment, Zinczenco urges fast food

The debate over genetically modified foods continues to haunt producers and consumers alike. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are foods that have been modified through bioengineering to possess certain characteristics. These plants have been modified in the laboratory to enhance traits such as increased resistance to herbicides or increased nutritional content (Whitman, 2000). The debate continues to grow as to whether these genetically altered foodstuffs are the answer to hunger in the coming years, or whether we are simply children playing with something that we do not have the capacity to understand. One of the biggest debates in the GMO issue is whether producers need to use labeling of

First off, in order to revise the food label, we need to understand how it is supposed to work. The food label was develop, and is currently regulated by the Food and Drug Administration since 1993 (Rosso Grossman, “Food Labels”). The food label is currently has four requirements. The first is the principal display panel. This is in the front of the package and the label is what the food is commonly

The advancement of technology has allowed our generation to genetically modify food for what is believed to be beneficial to consumers. The environmental and health effects of genetically modified foods have generated controversy about whether these foods are safe. With such advances, the use of genetically modified food is expanding, even though they 're unlabeled. Genetically modified foods should be labeled because of the possible health, environmental, and economic risks. Once a consumer knows what they are paying for, it is fair to produce and market such foods.

Article: If food manufacturers actually cared about your health then they wouldn’t be duping you into thinking GMO and processed foods are healthy. They really don’t care about your health — just profits. That may sound harsh, but frankly, they only have one goal in mind. Get rich, no matter what the cost.

Whether Americans realize it or not, most of them consume genetically modified organisms every time they eat a snack or a meal. According to Robin Mather’s article “The Threats from Genetically Modified Foods”, “you’re eating genetically modified foods almost daily unless you grow all of the food or always buy organic” (Mather). This can be a scary thought for those who know about the numerous effects of GMOs or those who didn’t know what was in the food they’ve been ingesting for years. When Nielsen selected 1,200 Americans for a survey on GMOs for The Wall Street Journal, “61% of consumers had heard of GMOs and nearly half of those people said they avoid eating them” (Gasparro). The only difficulty with avoiding genetically modified organisms is that they make up approximately eighty percent of the ingredients used in processed foods that put together most of the regular American diet (Gasparro). The reason that genetically modified organisms are in most processed foods is because most processed foods contain corn or high fructose corn syrup that comes from genetically modified corn plants. Of all the corn, soybeans, sugar beet, and canola crops grown in the United States, over ninety percent of those crops are grown from genetically altered seeds (Gasparro). Ever since 1996, when genetically modified plants were first commercially grown for the public, the use of genetically modified seeds has been on a sharp increase (Charman). Although the use of genetically modified

No good deed goes unpunished. Today the world tends to depend on and live off of processed foods that are typically produced from genetically modified organisms or GMOs. The foods that people love to snack on are slowly changing the health of the population of the United States. These GMO packed tasty foods are cheap and readily available. Food and Drug Association also referred to as the FDA does not classify GMOs as food(Pollan,2001). These foods are accessible at almost every store in the United States causing the rate of consumption to increase. The easy accessibility to these foods is causing the people of the US to become more obese, especially children. Obesity rates continue to rise and don’t seem to be stopping. Growing children tend to have multiple unhealthy snacks throughout the course of a day. Lower and middle class citizens tend to buy the cheaper unhealthy processed foods. People are consuming these accessible tasty snacks in copious amounts and are becoming obese. While processed foods are less expensive and more readily available, the obesity rate will continue to rapidly grow until processed foods are cut out of the daily diet of America.

According to the FDA in the FD&C Act, they do not pre-approve food labels they only regulate them after they are produced and put onto the packaging of the product, accessed on the FDA’s website. This reveals how much the FDA doesn’t actually look into the labels that are being provided, if they meet the “regulations” then their is no further questions asked. The FDA is supposed to be keeping the customers and consumers safe from harmful foods, but they just keeping overlooking the labels that we depend on to be right. One way that the FD&C Act could be more specific is make it a regulation, in this act, to check the labels before they are printed, by doing this then the FPLA will be made more specific. If both of these act’s work together in the process of food regulations and reevaluating the “rules” that everyone depends on, the food that is being eaten will be made safer since companies will not be able to get away with it anymore. Furthermore the FPLA Act is vague, as it was mentioned earlier there are only three major requirements that need to be made in order to have a label on the packaging itself. This act was made to prevent the deception of customers, but it’s not really doing it’s job. This act doesn’t define what they can and can’t use when making the labels for instance certain word choices, “‘Made with’ often means ‘made with very little,’” said Bonnie Liebman,

In the past few years, society has been made more aware of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Because of this, GMOs are being replaced in diets with more natural and organic options. GMOs have been researched and found to cause adverse effects on human health because of the gene splicing, or genetic alterations that are done to create them through genetic engineering. Before this issue became an issue, many people were eating processed and even healthy foods without understanding what chemicals and toxins they were actually putting into their bodies. GMOs are infused into food without awareness because one never really understands what all those unpronounceable words, label GMOs, really are. Due to recent research, it has been found that genetically modified organisms are harmful and can lead to increased risks of disease and cancer.

There is a common misconception that all processed foods are bad. Of recent, this has been damaging to certain companies interpreted to produce the negatively perceived “processed foods”, even when those foods may actually be nutrient dense, healthy products. It’s concerning that the Obama’s seem to be endorsing this misconception. The media definition of “processed foods” has come to mean foods that have undergone extensive processing with many added ingredients like sugar, fat, and preservatives (Fiore, 2014). These food items are technically classified as highly processed foods. They differ from more minimally processed foods like pre-packaged tilapia, or frozen asparagus, in regards to their effects on