Americans eat a lot of GMO products

Most packaged and processed foods do contain genetically modified ingredients, the labels don't have to say so.

 According to a recent CBS News/New York
Times poll, 53 percent of Americans say they won't buy food that has
been genetically modified, but they aren't informed.

Experts say that means if it comes in a
can or a box and the label lists soybean oil or corn syrup as
ingredients, odds are that it contains GMOs. Overall, 65 percent of
all products in your local grocery store have DNA-altered
ingredients…not that you'd know it by looking.
Today, more than
90 percent of the U.S. soybean crop is genetically modified – had its
DNA altered to increase production and withstand chemical weed
killers like roundup. Nearly three-quarters of all corn planted in
the U.S. genetically modified.
The industry that makes
genetically modified foods fought so hard to make sure that it wasn't
labeled.

A new CBS News poll found that 87% of
consumers would like GMO ingredients to be labeled, just as they are
in Europe, Japan and Australia.