Food Labeling News: Whole Foods says it will label GM food

In Week 3, we covered GMOs, and so we know that U.S. regulatory bodies treat genetically modified food as "substantially equivalent" to non-GM food.  Therefore, unlike Europe, there is no requirement in the U.S. for GM labels.

According to Nation of Change,

Whole Foods Market (WFM) is being praised in the media for announcing that it will become the first U.S. grocery chain to require that genetically engineered (GE) foods in its stores be labeled, by 2018.

The whole story from Nation of Change is here.  And you should read it yourself and decide if the story has any biases to it.  Spoiler alert:  They think Whole Foods should adopt thiss policy soon than 2018.  You can also read Whole Foods' announcement direction from their web site here.

Another good reason to read it:  Next week -- Week 10, we will be talking about food labeling in class!