I've been preaching this sentiment for a few years, it's always fun to sign those petitions in the grocery store while telling the petitioner they are way off base on GMO's being "dangerous" (it's like saying the internet should be shutdown because someone could steal your credit card information.)
I really believe any products coming from large scale farms should be labeled with their strain, growing technique, pesticides used, and what farm it came from. I do think labeling GMO's will have the opposite effect as most pro-label people believe. Once people realize most of their food has had GMO's in it for years and to eat all non-GMO will cost them double or triple, they will all simmer down.
However, "GMO" itself is still a murky term. We genetically engineered all sorts of crops before we could easily manipulate DNA at a molecular level. For example, ruby red grapefruit was engineered by planting earlier cultivars around a radioactive pole to induce widespread mutations (and thus new varieties).
I really believe any products coming from large scale farms should be labeled with their strain, growing technique, pesticides used, and what farm it came from. I do think labeling GMO's will have the opposite effect as most pro-label people believe. Once people realize most of their food has had GMO's in it for years and to eat all non-GMO will cost them double or triple, they will all simmer down.
However, "GMO" itself is still a murky term. We genetically engineered all sorts of crops before we could easily manipulate DNA at a molecular level. For example, ruby red grapefruit was engineered by planting earlier cultivars around a radioactive pole to induce widespread mutations (and thus new varieties).