Currently, food companies are using QR codes to reveal bioengineered food ingredients.
The list of ingredients is present, but only upon clicking on the QR code are bioengineered ingredients revealed.
There are also times on food packaging that bioengineered food ingredients are labeled in a different non-conspicuous location on the packaging.
It’s not reasonable to expect a person to need wireless data communication to understand the ingredients in their food.
All food ingredients must be clearly stated.
Proposal
- Food ingredients requirements as follows.
A. Food be separated into four categories
- Whole real foods. To include, foods grown, real meats from living animals, products of living animals. Naturally occuring minerals
- Additives-Processed foods, meals, chemical additives, fillers, anything not grown or harvested
- Water
- Liquids that are not water
B. The food content as a whole be divided by the 4 parts percentage.
C. Each item in the list of food ingredients that is bioengineered should be individually labeled on packaging, it’s imperative that we know exactly what has bioengineering
Example
Foods- Beef, potatoes(bioengineering), tomatoes, salt, - 93%
Additives- Natural flavors (bioengineering), msg - 1%
Water - 5%
Soy oil (bioengineering) olive oil, lime juice - 1%
Allow rounding for simplicity to .5% percent marks
Problem-
All too often, we pay large prices per volume for water.
We don’t currently know what items in a food list are bioengineered. The current labeling requirements don’t force transparency in food.
If food companies don’t want to spend large portions of money analyzing the exact composition of their foods, it will be very easy to only use real food ingredients and label accordingly.