I just picked up a new book called “Good Calories, Bad Calories” by Gary Taubes.

After reading the forward I had to put it down and digest it for awhile. It seems that once again corporations have had a say in policies that affect our health.

If you thought that we were done with that problem when the surgeon general put that nice little message on cigarette packages, well, you and I were both wrong.

The only authority I am willing to rely on these days with regards to what foods are good for me is my body, and my body recoils at the thought of food engineered to produce a pesticide like genetically engineered corn.

I do not believe the full story is out yet on genetically engineered foods and until it is these foods need to be labeled.

We have the right to know the full story about the food we are eating and labeling engineered ingredients will be one more step in that direction; just like labeling for sodium, fat, and country of origin.

To that end, I will be voting yes on Proposition 37 in November.

Annelle Durham lives in Upper Lake, Calif.