Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food

gollum123 writes with this excerpt from the NY Times: "For more than a decade, almost all processed foods in the United States — cereals, snack foods, salad dressings — have contained ingredients from plants whose DNA was manipulated in a laboratory. Regulators and many scientists say these pose no danger. But as Americans ask more pointed questions about what they are eating, popular suspicions about the health and environmental effects of biotechnology are fueling a movement to require that food from genetically modified crops be labeled, if not eliminated. The most closely watched labeling effort is a proposed ballot initiative in California that cleared a crucial hurdle this month, setting the stage for a probable November vote that could influence not just food packaging but the future of American agriculture. Tens of millions of dollars are expected to be spent on the election showdown. It pits consumer groups and the organic food industry, both of which support mandatory labeling, against more conventional farmers, agricultural biotechnology companies like Monsanto and many of the nation's best-known food brands like Kellogg's and Kraft."

Comments

Re:but all food is now GM

[ChromeAeonium]

Name me one instance where that has happened. And before you start dragging out the Schmeiser case, no, I don't mean instances where someone violated their contracts or intentionally selected for the transgenic trait. i want to know of just one case where Monsanto up and sued someone simply for being cross pollinated. People keep making that claim, that Monsanto likes to go around suing farmers (because the one thing a seed company wants is less farmers /sarcasm), but when I ask for actual examples of it happening no one can give them, although I can think of the opposite happening.