Tis why they won't label it, people may not buy it.
Yeah, that is one con. GM products have had no human health problems to be identified. But as some researchers have correctly pointed out, GM products do not contain labels in our grocery stores. Therefore, harmful effects from these foods--if there are any--would potentially go undetected. I think that they should most definitely label the product as soon as possible.
Wil, peep this interesting information from an article in the April 2008 Popular Science magazine. According to this article:
1. In January the FDA ruled that the meat and milk from cloned cows, pigs, and goats is safe to eat. While it will be some time for the livestock to produce enough offspring to make it cheap enough to produce commercially, it is coming.
2. Scientists at the University of California at Davis have also engineered wheat that has twelve percent more protein.
3. Scientists in the Netherlands have grown minced pork in a dish and expect commercially available ground pork by 2012 and bacon within the decade.
4. Food engineers are producing better cheddar by adding a bacterial gene that eliminates the bitter taste.
5. Several companies are cloning the most prized cattle to produce leaner, tastier meat. They will start breeding these clones this spring and commercially available meat in five years.
6. Heinz is breeding a tomato that is ten percent sweeter to use in ketchup to make it sweet in place of corn syrup.
7. Virginia Tech researchers have discovered how to turn on the latent vitamin C producing gene in lettuce to produce more nutritious lettuce.
I would wait before the science develops more. However, I would not stop the testing, because when it is used with skill, it has beautiful potential. So educating the people about GM foods may change minds. . .