What we think the GMO label should look like
![What we think the GMO label should look like What we think the GMO label should look like](https://eu-images.contentstack.com/v3/assets/blt09e5e63517a16184/bltafc06db067aebac6/64cbf83cdb0bcc7a8de33eaa/NewHopeNetwork_Horizontal_RGB.png?width=700&auto=webp&quality=80&disable=upscale)
There's something fishy about this apple, but I can't quite put my fin on it. —Christine Kapperman
A genetically modified apple a day... —Eric Schmidt
This label shows a fish riding an ear of corn in the style of Slim Pickens riding an atomic bomb from the end of Dr. Strangelove. He has a little hat and everything. Also legs? All to say that the same energy and abandon that characterized the Manhattan Project seems to underlie the biotech market’s current fascination with genetic engineering. Though I think GMOs are more a symptom of the overreach of finance into food (what better way to live up to corn futures than to create corn that can’t die?) than of millenarian jingoism. —Connor Link
Pass the butter. —Eric Schmidt
The whole problem I have with GMOs is that we simply don’t know if they’re safe; they’re so new that no long-term studies exist on their health effects. I don’t like being forced to be a guinea pig. —Elisa Bosley
Spray paint, not pesticides. —Eric Schmidt
That is one scary soybean and would definitely make me think twice about an edamame snack. Problem is, the decision isn't in our hands right now because we just don't know where genetic modifications are lurking. No matter what side of the GMO coin you're views land on (heads or heads), we deserve the right to be able to choose... transparency please! —Heather B. Fried
And take back our acronyms! GMO=Grow More Organics (hell yeah) —Eric Schmidt
This is my rendition of a label for GE Salmon. Notice that the fish not only has escaped from its biotech confines into the deep dark ocean, primed to populate the disturbingly few wild salmon we have left, but it also has muscles fairly reminiscent of Arnold Schwarzenegger, odd growths on its fins, and disturbing pustules on its fish face. Poor li'l guy. —Jenna Blumenfeld
"Does this genetic modification look good on me?" —Jessica Rubino
Taking genes from one species to improve another is completely ludicrous. My label seeks to highlight that fact—like adding soccer material to an orange to make it more bouncy or orange material to a soccer ball to make it more juicy. —Kelsey Blackwell
Higher yield; greater risk. —Eric Schmidt
Higher yield; greater risk. —Eric Schmidt
Flash forward to 2018. The hover board is the best way to get around town; Tom Cruise and Colin Farrell have perfected PreCrime; and GMOs are on the brink of complete eradication from our food system. For those that didn't reformulate, it's the label for you!
Moved in part by the labeling movement's headway along with recent rogue wheat news out of Orgeon and general GMO fascination, we took it upon ourselves to get the corn kernel rolling and save The Non-GMO Project and any other certification sources that surface the trouble of designing a label.
What do you think the GMO label should look like? Send your sketch our way and we'll add it here!
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