0_Apprentice
I'm not sure why people are so concerned with GMOs in food. I think it's just a buzzword to scare people.
1_Wizard
The key problem seems to be with the debate on if foods containing GMOs should be labeled or not.
0_Apprentice
Ah, true. I think that would be pointless though. So many foods would end up being labeled as GMO that it wouldn't have meaning.
1_Wizard
GMO foods are actually fairly new, beginning in the last 25 years. So labels only showing foods without GMO's might still be useful and plentiful.
0_Apprentice
I think that depends on how you define "genetically modified." Technically speaking, any plant bred to have more edible material would be a GMO.
1_Wizard
Many countries use  something called "substantial equivalence" when determining authorization of GMO cultivation. Maybe that's the standard that should be used to label food.
0_Apprentice
Yeah I like that, but I can imagine the same rabble rousers would then start to claim that a regulatory agency like that would be biased somehow.