In Defense of Food

1) I think people eat "food" that they know is bad for them because they like the taste and they just don't care. I personally ate so much candy on Halloween that I was violently sick the following morning, and I know that almost none of the ingredients found in said candy are also found in nature. I ate it because it's yummy. And besides, I only binge like that once a year. :)
2) The government has a responsibility to serve and protect the citizens. I think that this definitely involves labelling anything that could possibly cause harm to someone. I don't know if genetically modified food needs to be labelled, because most of the food we eat now is GMO and nothing is happening (except for swine flu...maybe there's a connection). In short, I think that the government should be responsible for educating people about risks and keeping the super toxic stuff OFF the market. Like that energy drink called Cocaine that they used to sell. Not good. I'm glad the FDA got that one, it was just a lawsuit (not to mention a PEOPLE magazine expose) waiting to happen.