And one could argue that they were successful: President Obama recently signed the weakest labeling law imaginable, and to most of the food movement, this felt like a loss. The new law mandates that the Department of Agriculture define what constitutes a genetically modified food ingredient and then requires food manufacturers to label products that contain them. Disappointment among labeling proponents stems from the latitude the law gives food companies in how this labeling is done. But now that the new labeling law has opened the disclosure door a crack, why not open it wide and see what’s inside? labeling was forced by Vermont’s passage of its own, stricter labeling law (now rendered null by the federal law), which would have spread to other states.

Source: New York Times September 02, 2016 07:18 UTC