It's Friday, July 20th, 2018, and you're listening to Up to Date. I'm in Dravis Gontas.

And I'm Kishore Hari. All right. Let me ask you a question. What do you think about GMO labeling?

I've never been a fan just because labels are already crowded with too much information. And I've always

thought that adding more to it just will devalue what's on there

already. Yeah, I have also thought that if you start labeling things as GMO, you're going to fearmonger, right?

So, you know, we've had a couple people on the show talk about the science of GMO foods and whether or not it's

healthy for humans. Now, there's a separate conversation about whether it's the best thing for the environment

or all of these other kinds of considerations.

But when it comes to, are GMO foods safe to eat or not safe to eat,

the science has been pretty unequivocal,

that there's no evidence that GMO foods are as a whole unsafe to eat, right?

That they have any health consequences.

We can agree on that?

Totally.

It's a separate argument whether they're healthier, like in terms of nutrition, but it certainly has no adverse health consequences.

Right.

Yeah, exactly.

So claiming that something, you know, or adding a label to

some kind of food saying that it is genetically modified, you can imagine would have one of two

consequences. Either people would then think, oh, really, I need to worry about this because

this is something that, you know, I now have to, you know, it's like the sugar content or the

fat content. Now I need to see, make sure that all the food I have is non-GMO. Or it could be that

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