These foods may be toxic, cause allergic responses, have lower nutrition value, compromise immune systems, and cause irreparable damage to the environment. I also oppose your new voluntary labeling policy, which denies consumers a basic right to know. Without mandatory labeling, neither consumers nor health professionals will be aware if an allergic or toxic reaction was the result of a genetically engineered food. Consumers will also be deprived of the critical knowledge they need to hold food producers responsible should any of these novel foods prove hazardous. Your proposed rules ignore serious concerns and appear to be made on behalf of industry at the expense of public health and the environment.
Consumers have a right to know what they are eating.