Because the FDA labeling system is based on hazard (GMO has none) and on nutritional composition (GMO is not nutritionally different).
If you want to buy non GMO foods, buy certified Organic and pay the price premium. Stop trying to force those costs on the rest of us consumers who aren’t afraid of GMO foods.
This fear and hysteria is manufactured by the Organic Lobby to increase their market share and shore up their perceived value.
People die every year from eating contaminated organic foods. Nobody has EVER died from eating GMO foods.
So who died and made you food god?
I want to know whether the food I eat is GMO. Don’t I have a right to know what I’m eating?
You don’t know that there hasn’t been a single death caused by GMO. The last I recall that wasn’t an item tracked by CDC.
/bingo
Not forcing the GMO label on foods isn’t forcing anyone to eat GMO foods. We’ve been through this nonsense most recently since the 1960s, but the organic food nonsense started long before that.
The beginning of chemical agriculture lies in the 19th c, but the use of anhydrous ammonia was thought to be a great way to destroy the crop in the field. Turned out it wasn’t. There’s been a fear that a single strain of disease could literally wipe out the entire corn crop, and yet the only viable candidate for that destroyer remains the weather. Guess what — the same shamans have intuited that human activity determines the climate!!! /s Hey, it’s only logical!!! /s
The world’s population stood at about one billion in 1900, and that figure was horrifying, particularly to the remaining colonial powers, since they realized what a small fraction of the world they were. All the eugenics nonsense, the racial hygiene nonsense, all the “population bomb” and neo-malthusian nonsense, and even the pro-abortion movement, arose from the fear of unrestricted population growth among “the wogs”.
You're a 'low information' eater.
Canola oil is GMO. You can buy "certified organic" canola oil. Buying organic then doesn't mean it is free of GMO.
I recently saw Organic Heritage Tomatoes in a upper scale market in my area. They had "Yes" to I-522 posters mounted on their front windows. The tomatoes were $5.00/lb. These tomatoes came from a hydroponic indoor grow system. I imagined that someone who was growing something more than just tomatoes could make some extra cash on such tomatoes. A strong case of the munchies would make anyone pay $5.00 for the taste of an Organic Heritage Tomatoe.
The GMO thing is being exploited by those who are trying to generate a cottage industry through a whispering campaign all designed to create paranoia. Much of that paranoia plays into those who already are susceptible to such feelings due to their pipe dreams. Such make them willing participants willing to pass the "good faith" to those susceptible to their pseudo science. It makes for quite a volunteer network.