The 64 Countries that Require GMO Labeling – U.S. Buckles Under Biotech Pressure

Monsanto, Dow, Cargill, and many dozen food manufacturers are trying to fight the imminent passage of labeling bills in both Colorado and Oregon, claiming that GMOs’ are ‘safe,’ and that labeling will only lead to food hysteria. But the fact is, much of the modern world requires labeling of GMO foods, or downright bans them. What about the United States? No labeling here!

Companies like Safeway, Target, and Starbucks don’t want to tell you what is in your food, and neither do Kraft, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, and more, but its time to stop these corporate monsters in their tracks. The U.S. is the land of plenty – or used to be, but corporations given personhood and the biotech industry have taken over. Why does the U.S. even have to fight this fight when 64 other countries already label or completely ban GMOs?
The fact is that Americans eat lots of processed food – food that is full of GMO corn, soy, rice, and sugar beets – 4 huge money-makers for GMO manufacturers.

In the book “Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us,” Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Michael Moss exposes how the unregulated food industry has developed unhealthy ways to get consumers hooked on their brands. They know many of us are hooked on ‘fake-foods’ like drug addicts on crack, but that is all about to change.

We don’t need to eat their RoundUp-drenched crap anymore, but we also need to require labeling so that even ‘organic’ and ‘natural’ foods are safe from biotech meddling. (Though many argue that GMO labeling isn’t enough, that even with labeling, organic crops will be contaminated with GM crops and biotech giants will continue to plant GM crops.)

The following 64 countries require GMO labeling of some kind:

(Courtesy of The Center for Food Safety):

1. Australia
2. Austria
3. Belarus
4. Belgium
5. Bolivia
6. Bosnia and Herzegovina
7. Brazil
8. Bulgaria
9. Cameroon
10. China
11. Croatia
12. Cyprus
13. Czech Republic
14. Denmark
15. Ecuador
16. El Salvador
17. Estonia
18. Ethiopia
19. Finland
20. France
21. Germany
22. Greece
23. Hungary
24. Iceland
25. India
26. Indonesia
27. Ireland
28. Italy
29. Japan
30. Jordan
31. Kazakhstan
32. Kenya
33. Latvia
34. Lithuania
35. Luxembourg
36. Malaysia
37. Mali
38. Malta
39. Mauritius
40. Netherlands
41. New Zealand
42. Norway
43. Peru
44. Poland
45. Portugal
46. Romania
47. Russia
48. Saudi Arabia
49. Senegal
50. Slovakia
51. Slovenia
52. South Africa
53. South Korea
54. Spain
55. Sri Lanka
56. Sweden
57. Switzerland
58. Taiwan
59. Thailand
60. Tunisia
61. Turkey
62. Ukraine
63. United Kingdom
64. Vietnam