What They Don't Want You to Know

In a world where information is king, big food companies use every resource available to them to ensure you do not know what is going into your food. Companies like Monsanto lobby to keep consumers uninformed about the different types of GMO products that are inserted into their food. While legislation is underway to force companies to label products that use GMO crops, large companies keep finding loopholes to exploit, at the expense of consumers.

A great example of these policies of censorship is ConAgra foods, as Liane showed, ConAgra is a massive company that produces hundreds of products, and it is hard to find any bad press about them. When companies have the power to censor information more strictly than the CIA, it becomes increasingly difficult for consumers to discover the truth behind their foods. In food labeling, there is little legislation on what is legal and what is false advertising, so even "natural" or "organic" products may contain genetically modified crops. Companies like Monsanto or ConAgra are able to resist efforts to label their food for what it is, because they believe it will decrease profits, showing that they are fully aware that consumers would avoid the food produced by these giants if they knew the changes it goes through before it arrives at the dinner table. 

In the fight against GMO foods, many people are starting to become aware of potential risks posed by this form of crop modification and production, and even more are starting to avoid it entirely. It takes great effort from us as consumers to discover what goes into the foods we eat, but by straying away from these giant production companies, we can change the tide in the favor of GMO free food products. 

sources:

http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/regulation/labelling/

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2014/10/where-gmos-hide-in-your-food/index.htm

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2014/10/where-gmos-hide-in-your-food/index.htm