Tiny Vermont brings food industry to its knees on GMO labels
Source: Associated Press
Mar 19, 12:55 PM EDT
Tiny Vermont brings food industry to its knees on GMO labels
By LISA RATHKE
Associated Press
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- General Mills' announcement on Friday that it will start labeling products that contain genetically modified ingredients to comply with a Vermont law shows food companies might be throwing in the towel, even as they hold out hope Congress will find a national solution.
Tiny Vermont is the first state to require such labeling, effective July 1. Its fellow New England states of Maine and Connecticut have passed laws that require such labeling if other nearby states put one into effect.
The U.S. Senate voted 48-49 Wednesday against a bill that would have blocked such state laws.
The food industry is holding out hope that Congress will prevent states from requiring such labeling. Some companies say they plan to follow Vermont's law, while others are considering pulling their products from the small state.
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Hoyt
(54,770 posts)is simply recognizing our failed education system.
Oak3Tree
(75 posts)mdbl
(4,973 posts)If they really think these food alterations are no big deal, why are they fighting to keep lying to us? Sh&*heads!
Hydra
(14,459 posts)You can see it everywhere. Style over substance.
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)In your own words, what is it about GMO's that make that method of genetic modification any more dangerous than any other method or process of genetic change?
mdbl
(4,973 posts)cpwm17
(3,829 posts)plus it didn't really get into why we should hate GMO's.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)I don't think a desire for accurate labeling of GMO's is equivalent to "hate GMO's"; however, I do understand the melodramatic mind that does conflate the two when bias demands it of him.
mdbl
(4,973 posts)The jury is still out on the long term effects on our health. Excuse me if I would like the choice not to be a guinea pig for the chemical companies.
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)In your own words, what is it about GMO's that make that method of genetic modification any more dangerous than any other method or process of genetic change?
It's arbitrary to just be concerned about GMO's, and to not be concerned about any other method of genetic change that has happen in almost everything we eat. And including genetic changes that constantly happen in nature, everything we eat have gone through massive genetic changes over time.
There is no good scientific reason for this special concern about GMO's. There is no reason for this hype. It's propaganda by people with an agenda.
mdbl
(4,973 posts)Last edited Thu Mar 24, 2016, 07:06 AM - Edit history (1)
I have been reading about this for a decade and a half, and to say it's just safe and wonderful is misleading. But you stick to your guns and buy the frankenfood, I prefer not to if other alternatives are available.
Old Union Guy
(738 posts)SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)get to work monsanto
cpwm17
(3,829 posts)36% with fruit flies, 85% with zebra fish, 7% with bacteria. All life on Earth is related.
SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)get to work monsanto
nationalize the fed
(2,169 posts)SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)what a wonderful world
AxionExcel
(755 posts)Drumph tells everyone who disagrees with him that they are STUPID. That's anti-democratic, and a lame ad hominem attack so he can avoid dealing with facts or real issues.
The GMO pros tell the 92% of American citizens who want to exercise their basic right to know what's in their food that they are STUPID. Hmmmm?
If you were or were not a ninny democrat, that parallel might well to make you superstitious.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)The lack of a label harms smaller farms sales and USA small farms., Not giant CORPs, they're the ones who do not want labels on food.
It's a shame Americas Federal Government can't normalize food Labeling Nationally.
Instead we have some States where 'the people' can be fed tainted food and poison drinking water.
AxionExcel
(755 posts)Dark Forces are arrayed to stomp out the fundamental democratic right for people to know what's in their food, something the vast 92% of Americans want.
But the puny, well-funded 8% elite who want to stomp out that basic right continue their unending propaganda spew. The 8%ers cannot tolerate democracy, and are wild to thwart it.
America rises to it's feet. Hip Hip hooray for democracy as it strives to overcome the big-bucks boot stomp of corporatocracy!
roody
(10,849 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)more good companies will move in to fill the void.
It's a win win for the people.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Heh.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,336 posts)Besides, compared to Rhode Island, Vermont is YUUUGE!