Should NYU students care about labeling GMO foods in dining halls?

NEW YORK—Keith Kloor, an environmental journalist and NYU professor, sighs into the recorder. “The studies have not shown that organic food is any more nutritional. It doesn’t have a higher nutritional…value than conventional foods,” he says, in response to a series of questions concerning the healthiness of genetically modified food.

The fight to label genetically modified organisms in food has been big news for over two years in the United States. Maine and Connecticut recently approved legislation requiring the labeling of GMOs, but neither state has implemented said legislation yet. Twenty-six other states introduced bills to label GMOs last year, but in many states, such as Texas, proponents of GMO labeling seem to be making little headway.