Do consumers deserve to know what's in their food? The House of Representatives just voted to make that harder, when on Thursday they passed a bill banning states from passing their own laws requiring GMO labels. 

The "Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015," which passed 275-150, will create a federal standard for the voluntary labeling of foods containing GMO ingredients.

Representative Mike Pompeo of Monsanto, who authored the bill, called mandatory labeling laws – which have already been passed in Vermont, Connecticut, and Maine – "unnecessarily costly given that GMos have been deemed safe by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)." 

"Precisely zero pieces of credible evidence have been presented that foods produced with biotechnology pose any risk to our health and safety," Pompeo said. "We should not raise prices on consumers based on the wishes of a handful of activists."

Opponents are pushing back against the legislation, however, saying it will keep consumers from knowing what is in their food, and stop FDA from crafting a national GMO-labeling solution.

If you are not yet aware, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are seeds of certain crops engineered to resist herbicides. Common in America's corn and soybean crops, most GMO yields are used to feed animals for slaughter or are turned into processed foods such as high-fructose corn syrup. While government officials and the food industry claim GMOs are safe, consumer advocates seeking transparency on labels argue that no one really knows the long-term impacts of genetically modified crops.

In fact, there are many conflicting studies – some determining GMOs to be a health hazard, and others (many which are funded by biotech companies with an agenda) deeming them to be 'perfectly safe'.

Either way, don't consumers deserve to know what's in their food?