Fed Up - Official Trailer

[KurtNYC]

8. Fortunately it is not up to Congress. This is a massive consumer-based movement.

Congress didn't create organic standards until well into the organic movement. Consumers didn't wait for the government to get on board, this train left without them.

Whole Foods is major buyer for produce and processed foods. They have their own GMO labeling program under way and their goal is to label everything by 2018.

The biggest part of the push back against labeling is coming from food processing companies who know that once consumers have a choice the demand for GMO and will fall and their costs will rise in the transition. They are trying to keep that genie in the bottle but it is a losing battle. We are no longer limited to the laws and studies done in the US -- foreign entities and countries with single payer healthcare are leading the way against unhealthy foods because they want to reduce their healthcare expenditures.

Also the movement to growing your own foods locally is huge and spans the political spectrum from RW preppers who think that the collapse of civilization is imminent (because a black man is President), to the LWers who don't trust corporate food. Politics aside we are going to get to a point soon where conventionally grown foods will cost more than organics because of the rising cost of all the petroleum based inputs and the American consumer makes most of their decisions based on price alone.