YOU have no right to know where the food you eat ultimately comes from.
That’s the ruling of an international body of food experts. It says governments cannot demand that consumers be told their food’s genetic origins—whether a cooking oil comes from beans with a genetically modified ancestor, for instance. The only exception would be when a food turns out to be dangerous—allergenic, for example—and the culprit appears to be a modified gene.
Environmentalists have condemned the decision by a task force of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a UN panel that rules on issues about international food…
