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Senate passes GMO labeling compromise bill
On Thursday, July 7th, the US Senate passed a bill that would set a national labeling standard for foods containing genetically engineered (GMO) ingredients. Introduced by Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) the previous day, S. 764 is a compromise bill that…
Is HR 1599 the SAFE Act or the DARK Act?
The SAFE act (Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act) or HR 1599 seeks to regulate labeling of GMOs. It recently passed the House and is currently in the Senate. In this post, I'd like to explore the highlights of the bill…
The inconvenient truth about GMO labeling
Over the past few months, there have been several big stories on the labeling of GMOs: Chipotle, a chain of restaurants popular in the United States declared that they were going to eliminate GMOs from their menu. A perhaps more…
Food and Farm interview about Cheerios and GMOs
I imagine that by now you've heard about the announcement from General Mills that they have removed genetically engineered ingredients from their original Cheerios cereal, while also leaving them in their other Cheerios products. (The sourcing of their sugar and…
Initative I-522 fails to pass, what’s next?
Washington Initiative 522, which proposed mandatory front-of-package labels for foods that contain genetically engineered ingredients, or GMOs, came out of election night trailing by about 9 percentage points, with some predicting that the measure failed, while some proponents held out,…
Labeling. What is Kosher for a food community?
Philosophical food restrictions were not something I grew up with. Well, there was the "Fish on Friday" thing, but I was never really able to understand why fish wasn't a dead animal too. (I have a long history of aversion…
How To Do GMO Food Labeling Right
Written by Steve Savage A Modest Proposal Should food with ingredients from genetically engineered crops - "GMOs" - be labeled? Many argue that consumers have a "right to know" about this. Ok, if the real reason for labeling is to…
Connecticut passes GMO labeling law… sort of
Written by Caroline Coatney A GMO labeling bill, House Bill 6527, was just recently passed by both houses in the Connecticut state legislature. The bipartisan bill had strong support from state legislators (voted 134-3 in the House and 34-0 in…
Analysis of Washington State GMO Labeling Initiative I-522
Written by Bill Price Background Recently, supporters of the Washington State initiative I-522 submitted signatures to the Secretary of the State of Washington. This initiative is designed to “establish mandatory labeling of foods produced through genetic engineering”. The official web…
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