Because let’s face it, we can’t destroy this country with just Supreme Court rulings:
The Senate on Thursday rejected an amendment by Sen. Bernie Sanders to let states require clear labels on any food or beverage containing genetically engineered ingredients. The vote on the amendment to the farm bill was 26 to 73. “This is the very first time a bill on labeling genetically engineered food has been brought before the Senate. It was opposed by virtually every major food corporation in the country. While we wish we could have gotten more votes, this is a good step forward and something we are going to continue to work on. The people of Vermont and the people of America have a right to know what’s in the food that they eat.”
I’m personally not someone who fears genetically modified food- basically everything you eat today has been genetically modified through selective breeding over centuries. Cows didn’t always look like that. Hell, all you dog lovers out there, your specific breed didn’t use to look like that. I’m far more comfortable with wheat that has been genetically modified to resist fungal diseases or livestock genetically modified to resist the various maladies they suffer than I am with spraying crops with DDT or shooting up cows with steroids, hormones, and antibiotics. And I think the real problem with GM foods is what Monsanto and companies like them are trying to do to anyone whose seeds are patented and then they try to destroy any farmer whose seeds are incidentally cross-pollinated.
But having said that, I have no problem with, and in fact think it is perfectly reasonable to require these labels. Let consumers make informed decisions- isn’t that how the alleged “free market” is supposed to work?
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