Frankenfood
By Catherine Haug, February 4, 2016 (Image, right, from Organic Consumers Association, OCA, used with permission)
Hot off the presses, wonderful news from Oregon GMO Right to Know:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is BANNING the sale and import of genetically modified salmon…until the FDA can set strict guidelines on how to label them. This wonderful news is thanks to all the activists who wrote letters and signed petitions to the FDA, demanding Congress prevent the GMO salmon from appearing on our grocery store shelves unlabeled.
Now we all wait for the lawsuit filed against the Vermont mandatory GMO labeling law to be resolved in favor of the law, so that it can take effect on July 1, 2016. In December, 2015, we successfully fought an attempt by Congress to add an anti-labeling rider to the federal spending bill. For more on this battle, see:
- Vermont Right to Know: Federal spending bill rejects anti-GMO labeling push! (1)
- Vermont Right to Know: Will backroom deals trump your right to know? (2)
- Center for Food Safety: Public Pressure and Allies in Congress Keep “Rider” Blocking State Labeling of GMOs Out of Spending Bill (3)
References:
- Federal spending bill rejects anti-GMO labeling push!: vtrighttoknowgmos.org/federal-spending-bill-rejects-anti-gmo-labeling-push
- Will backroom deals trump your right to know?: vtrighttoknowgmos.org/will-backroom-deals-trump-right-know
- Center for Food Safety: centerforfoodsafety.org/press-releases/4171/public-pressure-and-allies-in-congress-keep-rider-blocking-state-labeling-of-gmos-out-of-spending-bill#
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