this frankenfood. clayton, are you going to try it? this is one of my favorite meats with swiss. cole slaw i love food but am not sure about this. there is nothing come on! is that good? see? that is the breakfast of cha champs. and next we have sushi and a blended puree. we have a chicken lollipop.
a beautiful day for us here. 69 in kansas city. 79 in dallas. we have a front al boundary. we have a warning front in kansas that is a slow-moving cell in western kansas that continues to move eastward. if you live in the regions, be careful of the threat across the plain states and the mid west. i love donuts and a reuben. what happens when you put them together? you get franken food, janice. we have top judges from frankenfood here. what does this mean? it s a combination of unusual
genetics to create a greater yield at harvest time to make them resistant to disease, or herbicides. one illinois lawmaker wants the law to mandate any food dedrived from genetically modified orringism be labelled as just that in the grocery store. this bill is about giving consumers a chance to know what s in their food and for them to make a choice. that s all it is. researchers have never found health consequences in humans from genetically modified foods, only in rats. that does not stop protestors. they ve gathered everywhere. chicago to dallas and portland. activists are convinced that g.m.o. is franken food. there s too much unknown, too little testing. although there is no link, they point to things like an increase in childhood peanut allergies. the science is just overwhelming. and they keep repeating the same things. they keep saying there have been no studies on this. there have been hundreds of studies.
jon: a hot debate across america over the labelling of genetically modified food. f.d.a. says the foods are safe while opponents and they are very vocal, say there haven t been enough independent testing. in particular, the critics say we don t know enough about the long term effects. mike takes a look at that live from chicago. mike? if you boy food with that organic label on it, that tells you a number of things including the food that you re buying has not been genetically modified. lawmakers, particularly in illinois, want to take that a step further and put a label on anything derived from foods like corn or soybeans that have been through genetic modification. corn and soybeans are not what they used to be. scientists have modified their