TED Talks: Why Genetically Engineered Foods Should be Labeled

My initial thoughts on the video entailed wondering why the ways foods are grown and processed are generally not on the labels when the food is canned, boxed, or bagged and put into grocery stores to be distributed into our homes. I like to keep a healthy diet going, so knowing what goes into my body is important to me. A lot of my foods are grown in my back yard and those that are not are either hunted and processed by me or people I personally know or they are grown in the backyards of people I personally know. The lack of knowledge as to how my food is processed and grown is unsettling and bothersome.
Some of the older pesticides and preservatives were previously believed to not be able to survive in the human body, as they were said to be destroyed by saliva within seconds of contact. But studies in the most recent years show that some of these chemicals are showing up in the systems of people who have eaten products that these substances were used on.
With more recent publicity of the use of chemical substances, you would think that companies would use less of these chemicals so that less attention would be brought to them about it. But, in fact, GE crops have increased their use of herbicides. This shows how much they care about what the people find out. It's easy to do whatever you want to your products when you control most of the food in the country.