For the third year in a row, people who believe that food containing GMOs (genetically modified organisms) should be labeled gathered together to raise awareness and support. GMOs can harm beneficial insects (as a former beekeeper, this is particularly important to me) and increase risk of illnesses such as cancer and birth defects (as a human being, this is even more important to me). We should know when we’re eating plants or animals that have been injected with genetically modified and engineered ingredients. But we don’t.

Monsanto is a big company with deep pockets that lobbies to protect their various GMO foods from being labeled, both fearing and knowing that informed Americans would make better choices than their modified crops and their growth hormone-tainted animal products. They also keep winning. Despite scientific evidence of GMOs’ harm, money and power talk. The recent Monsanto Protection Act passed by Congress and President Obama bans courts from halting the sale of Monsanto’s genetically altered seeds. If we can’t stop bad things from invading the products sold to us as food, we should at least know the bad things that are in them. That’s where even we little folk have power.

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