To subscribe to Agweek, click here. All over the modern world, food packages carry important information so consumers can make wiser buying choices. Well, knowing that a food contains something from a genetically modified crop may not tell the consumer anything useful.
Genetic modification is a tool, like a hammer or a wrench.
You're actually more interested in whether the car has air bags and gets good gas mileage. The real biotech question is the content of the food, not how it's produced. Maybe the modified genes add more vitamin A, or eliminate an allergen. Maybe the grain or fruit from a gene-modified plant is no different at all. The current approach of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is consistent with the idea that biotech is a tool.