GMO Labeling Initiative Rises From The Ashes of Prop. 37

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GMO Labeling Initiative Rises From The Ashes of Prop. 37

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Hi All,

Apparently the grassroots effort to inspire the passage of a national GMO labeling law may not be a dead issue, after all.
Executives from PepsiCo, ConAgra and about 20 other major food companies, as well as Wal-Mart and advocacy groups that favor labeling, attended a meeting in January in Washington convened by the Meridian Institute, which organizes discussions of major issues. The inclusion of Wal-Mart has buoyed hopes among labeling advocates that the big food companies will shift away from tactics like those used to defeat Proposition 37 in California last fall, when corporations spent more than $40 million to oppose the labeling of genetically modified foods.
Instead of quelling the demand for labeling, the defeat of the California measure has spawned a ballot initiative in Washington State and legislative proposals in Connecticut, Vermont, New Mexico and Missouri, and a swelling consumer boycott of some organic or “natural” brands owned by major food companies.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/busin ... .html?_r=1&

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Yea! I was so disappointed that it was such an unpopular initiative in California. Even many of my friends didn't get it and voted against it.
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Post by Leah »

I was very disappointed in my fellow Californians. I think it is only a matter of time though before this labeling happens.... kind of like gay marriage :)

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Companies like Monsanto poured gazillions of $s into ads in the couple of weeks before the elections, saying that such labeling would add $400 a year to peoples food bills. That claim is NONSENSE of course, since everything is labelled anyway, and adding on one extra line would cost nothing. Very frustrating.
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