ABSTRACT
By our reckoning, the burgeoning use of transgenic food crops constitutes a nonconsensual experiment on a mass scale. For the first time since the Amendments to the Food and Drug Act mandated disclosure of food ingredients, people are being asked to accept and ingest foodstuffs without being told when and if their food contains engineered gene products. While we continue to acknowledge that for most people direct health risks are likely to be small, for others the risks may be significant. Other issues are not so easily dismissed. Large numbers of persons who believe their religious or moral beliefs are threatened by consuming engineered foods clearly have reasons to object to the veil of ignorance created by nondisclosure. At a minimum, we all need to be told what we are eating.
