Victual Reality: Will the Obama administration be the first to seriously regulate genetically modified food?

Genetically modified crops cover a huge swath of the Midwest's corn and soy fields -- and have grabbed prime real estate in our supermarkets, where as much as three-quarters of processed products contain GMO ingredients. Despite the fast spread of GMOs, their health effects have not been well researched -- and a new study, one of the few, points to potentially significant health threats. How did these novel foods slip through the regulatory cracks? Tom Philpott investigates. Startlingly, he finds that our system for regulating GMOs originated under the direction of former Vice President Dan Quayle in the early 1990s -- and hasn't been updated since. Will Barack Obama continue with these same old policies, or will he get serious about regulating GMOs? (link)