Food Buzzwords

There are a lot of words and phrases for enterprising shoppers to pay attention to in the modern world. Some are more common than others, but in any grocery store in the US, you might come across a product that is:
Organic
Low-fat
Sugar-free
GMO-free
Vegan
Gluten-free

It's a rare item that checks all these boxes, but some combination of these qualities is generally seen as a good thing. I was interested, then, to see a product that was advertised as pro-GMO. Unsurprisingly, this product was Soylent, a liquid meal replacement that is basically the opposite of slow food, the movement that champions the qualities listed above.

I wrote and then deleted a few paragraphs here about slow food vs pesticide-ridden, genetically-modified crops produced on an industrial scale. To make a long story short, I think it is worth approaching this issue with the future of a very large and mostly poor population of humans in mind. I can safely add this topic to the list of things I can spend a lot of time talking about, somewhere between insect farming and Lord of the Rings.