All the time, surveys that only seem to prove the interviewee's ignorance come out, the latest of which was recently released by an Oklahoma university: it has been revealed that more than 80 percent of Americans would support DNA food labels, which is to say, the mandatory label of foods containing DNA.
In a strange turn of events, it seems like the majority of the population would be on board with mandatory DNA food labels, as they're obviously unaware of what DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) actually means - every living organism on Earth as well as many viruses have DNA.
The Washington Post reports that the DNA food labels survey was just recently released by the Oklahoma State University Department of Agricultural Economics that shows that a vast majority of Americans would support this sort of labeling, like the ones on genetically modified organisms (GMO) for those produced with genetic engineering.
According to io9, the DNA food labels survey comes from the Food Demand Survey (FooDs), an online poll that takes a representative sample of the population of the entire country each month, conducted by the university investigators Jayson Lusk (an economist) and research specialist Susan Murray.
The latest poll included a question about government policies about food, regulations, labeling and the like; a vast majority of the people surveyed said that they supported the labeling of genetically engineered foods (about 82 percent), which is not a very big shock - what was surprising was the realization that they also supported labeling of foods that had DNA, which is to say (though they're surely unaware), every living being on the planet, from animals to plants.
As the Los Angeles Times states, it is possible that the people surveyed was not entirely aware of what it was they were being asked, and so they replied that they approved of a measure to create DNA food labels.
