Well, there are reasons why the food industry has resisted
GM-labeling in most countries. In Singapore, it isn't practiced.
Obviously, there are huge money interests at stake here and CASE is
not doing their job.
While research on GM-food has not been widely publicised, they
have been linked to birth defects,
here and
here,
long-term sterility, are toxic to mammals. In fact,
they have been found
to have no effect on yields as most proponents like to assert.
Most GM-foods have been engineered either to be resistant to
certain herbicides/ pesticides, like Monsanto's Roundup-ready
products, or engineered to last only 1 generation so that farmers
cannot save their seeds and have to go back and buy seed from MNCs
like Monsanto.
And it's obvious that such a tactic has only the company's
profits in mind, not the food security of any country or the world
in mind- profit maximisation through food monopoly. More often,
getting involved in GM crops cost farmers more money in terms of
the herbicides/ pesticides used, water usage, expensive, patented
seeds that there is
huge stress caused by the financial burden.
