Posted on 05/11/2014 12:01:22 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(CNN) -- Vermont's governor on Thursday signed a bill into law that will require the labeling of genetically modified foods -- hailing it as the first such law in the nation.
Under the new law, food offered for retail sale that is entirely or partially produced with genetic engineering must be labeled as such by July 2016.
"Vermonters take our food and how it is produced seriously, and we believe we have a right to know what's in the food we buy," said Gov. Peter Shumlin. "More than 60 countries have already restricted or labeled these foods, and now one state -- Vermont -- will also ensure that we know what's in the food we buy and serve our families."
In the absence of federal action, other states have introduced similar legislation or ballot initiatives, according to the non-profit Center for Food Safety.
Maine and Connecticut passed laws requiring labeling, but they won't go into effect until other states pass GMO-labeling laws. Vermont is the first to pass a "no strings attached" bill, the watchdog group said.
Supporters of the law expect it will be challenged in court.
"I can make no predictions or promises about how the courts will ultimately rule but I can promise that my office will mount a vigorous and zealous defense of the law that has so much support from Vermont consumers," said Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell.
The governor tweeted: "Those opposed will put up a fight. Help us fight back."
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/johnny
Next, electricity is going to be labeled by a little box at the oulet, Renewable and Non-Renewable.
It’ll make as much sense too.
Luddites have won the day.
Well perhaps they should learn to be careful with their frakenfoods. There is quite a bit at stake ya know.
/johnny
“I’m against government solutions to problems. They just cause more problems.”
But you’re ok with big multi-national companies paying off pols to give them a huge amount of control over the food supply?
Thats what is happening.
So clean the scale? Otherwise when your product doesn’t sell you’ll go out of business to be replaced by someone who does clean their scale.
So there’s no difference between selective breeding between two types of corn and a plant that has had animal DNA grafted to its DNA?
Right, you don’t know what they hell you are talking about.
“fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides,” have nothing to do with GMO. Except the food factories want GMO so they don’t have to spend money on the “fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides,”
You work in the food industry and don’t want to label the food you sell. You know GMO foods won’t sell as well as non-GMO foods.
Government is already eyeball deep in everything. Heck you are talking about the food factories using government power to hide the GMO content.
Everything on the stupid label is already regulated. To say “keep the govt out of it” is a ridiculous statement.
Some of these guys must be heavily invested in Monsanto.
The reach of those companies is pretty massive. They want full and total control of the food supply.
It’s going to tell me that they don’t care if they are selling frankenfood to their customers. Like I said, I’ll feel sorry for these poor, poor companies when they quit spending millions to install their cronies as head of the agencies that are regulating their industry. Be sure to post all the chapter 11filings that this labeling causes. I’m guess it will be a round number of filings. Round as in 0.
Seems we heard the same arguments about the “made in” labels. I hate govt regulation but companies will mislabel and lie about their product to increase sales.
So whats the answer because its obvious the food industry doesn’t have the morals or integrity to police itself.
Wow.
Actually, I do know something about it.
Seriously FRiend, I hope your Mother’s day improves.
There’s a big difference between even conventional farming of 15 years ago and all of the crap loading into crops with GMO.
Harvard just came out with a study about neonicotoids killing off bees, and neonicotoid use is intertwined with GMO.
It is a mistake that we’ve allowed GMOs in this country at all.
So you’re lying to prevent an impact to sales?
My mothers day is fine.
/johnny
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