Tiny Vermont Brings Food Industry To Its Knees On GMO Labels (ap.org)

schwit1 writes: 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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Liberal used to mean free from government oppression while socialist always meant authoritarian collectivist. The so called 'democratic socialism' of Sanders is government oppression of some based on the voting of the majority to steal and redistribute, basically collectivist or mob oppression of minorities. In the USA, liberal today in the basically socialist.

To me all forms of collectivism, socialism, fascism, religious, nationalist is no different from authoritarian and oppressive, anti individual freedom, anti humanist. Collectivism brings us the evil of the gulags, government taxation of income and wealth with the intent of equalization and so called 'solidarity', which is a misnomer for theft and oppression. I have never and will not ever feel and have any solidarity with anybody based on oppression, coercion and violence and all that government is - it is oppression, coercion and violence.