More and more people are thinking about the food they eat these days and its not just because of food safety concerns.
University of Western Ontario Professor of Bioethics Ken Kirkwood says people are considering ethical implications of the food they consume.
He says there is a certain morality to eating meals these days because the food we buy can and does have an impact on not only our own lives but the lives of people who produce it whether locally or in another country.
Kirkwood says making a decision to purchase food at a local farmers market means you have made the decision to support local producers as opposed to a large factory farm operation that have a negative impact on the environment.
He also says when consumers go shopping they can read the labels and determine if what they are buying has a local connection, and if it has been imported from a distance they can decide not to buy it.
Kirkwood says one of the major problems Canadian consumers have today is there is no way they whether or not the food they are purchasing has been genetically modified.
He says there are no requirements that food labels in this country tell people what if any of the product is composed of GMO food.
Kirkwood says as a consumer people would at least like to have to right to know whether their food has been modified or not.
