Why aren't GMO food products labeled yet ?

The main reason why GMO food products are not yet labeled is that Monsanto, E.I Dupont De Nemours & Co., PepsiCo Inc., the Grocery Manufacturers Association, Kraft Foods, Bayer Crop Science, Dow AgroSciences, BASF Plant Science and Syngenta Corporation all spend millions of dollars to flood the market with misinformation and send lobbiests to Washington DC to turn our congressmen and senators against us. In November, 2012, California voters narrowly defeated Proposition 37 which would have require mandatory GMO labeling. Why? Because the Yes on 37 campaign was outspent by the No on 37 campaign by roughly $36,000,000. The No on 37 campaign spent A staggering $46,000,000to fight Proposition 37 while the YES on 37 campaign was only able to spend $9,200,000. Monsanto proudly donated $8,112,867 to lead the charge. With that great a discrepancy in spending, you might have expected that it went down in a landslide. The truth is that it was narrowly defeated by a margin of 48.59% YES, 51.41% NO. The fact is that most Californians did see through the lies and unsubstantiated claims made by the NO on 37 campaign. Funny thing, Monsanto is not headquartered in California.

There are some states, including Maine, which have passed laws requiring mandatory GMO labeling and more states are lining up. The ways to get the passed nationwide is to A) Pressure your senators and congressmen to say NO to special interests and YES to their actual voting interests. Another step that you can take is to sign up at Buycott.com (http://www.buycott.com)/ which allows you to select several campaigns that you might believe in (including SAY NO TO GMO, NO ANIMAL TESTING…) and then you can enter a company name and the site will tell you if that company is one that you are boycotting, supporting, is neutral or if there is not enough information on it. You can also download it to your smart phone and scan the barcodes of items in your kitchen or in the grocery store to see if you want to support them or not.

The fact is that Monsanto cannot honestly say whether GMO products will have any long term health effects or not because they have only been in use for 15 years. Hybrid seeds have been around a lot longer but hybrid seeds are not herbicide resistant. As far as I know, there are no “Safe” herbicides. Those who handle them or spray them still have to wear safety gear to avoid accidental poisoning. Furthermore, these pesticides and herbicides make their way to our groundwater and add carcinogens to our water supply.

The bottom line is that I believe that I should have the right to choose whether I want to buy GMO or non-GMO product and I have yet to hear one valid reason why I should not be given that right.

Because "reported problems" isn't scientific.

The fact is there is no proof of the things you're claiming. Your "studies" aren't reputable ones, but outliers conducted on small sample groups, cherry picked to back your preconceived claims.

Just like your claimed definition of pest-resistant. These days most genetic modified crops are modified to be herbicide resistant, that is they're immune to one of the few herbicides we have that are proven safe. So they can spray the solar-degenerating herbicide on the fields, kill the weeds and harvest the crop.

We already have the label organic. So just pay the premium for that.

Lol there is so much conspiracy & fail in this post its not even worth addressing despite your legit YA stats showing you are not trolling.

Take a course in molecular biology, biotechnology process, cellular biology, biochemistry, genetics or whatever myriad of plant courses you want & try actually show a basic understanding of biological processes before you post such tripe.

The fact you believe pesticides are automatically bad for health just goes to show how little you know.

Because the producers of food with GMOs don't want it labeled because they know a lot of people don't want it, even though they claim otherwise.

because the climate is getting worse, they've done this to plants so they can grow in conditions that were the fault of factories and people who dump stuff . also greediness and quickness instead of thinking about peoples health and lives.

Only in good old Amrika they aren't.