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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.
We've been genetically modifying food for centuries.
anything that has corn, wheat, barley etc etc has been genetically modified by ancient ancestors.
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
The history of the 20th century finds plenty of reasons those words were poisoned, and it has nothing to do with media bias. It has everything to do with the depraved hearts of socialists and the utterly ruthless way they went about implementing socialism. I think you really don't know your own history. You need to hit the books. For the short version, one picture is worth a thousand words.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
We have monocultures without GMO. No GMO intellectual property rights have ever caused any farmer any problems, anywhere.
If you fall for FUD, you're a willfully ignorant savage, and you deserve food poisoning from your precious non-GMO vegetables.
Now that's cute. But you're not really trying to pretend that the Nazis were a left wing movement, do you? I mean ... even you can't have your view distorted that badly and know that little about history.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Reactionary types have poisoned the word in the popular vernacular.
I'm sure there was a similar discussion when people first started objecting to Uranium in drinking water, when Uranium was first discovered. It was hailed as having many health benefits by those selling it. Now it's considered assanine, as will eventually be the case with GMO.
What like the USA? Oh wait that probably the country that has experienced it the least.
The horror of when you get sick, being able to know you can afford to go to the hospital. If you loose your job knowing you won't be on the street.
Sounds horrendous, Socialism is only a dirty word in the USA because of some nation wide brain washing left over from the cold war. Sure supporting everybody no matter how little they do is not a good thing, and people should rewarded for their hard work. It is not an all or nothing proposition you can have a balance.