GMO Labeling Gets on California Ballot as Agent Orange Corn Nears Approval
Today, volunteers are delivering the signatures needed to put a proposition on California's ballot that requires mandatory labeling of genetically modified (GMO) foods.
If the California Right to Know proposition passes this November, the state will join over 40 countries including all of Europe, Japan and even China that have mandatory GMO labeling laws.
Vermont is hesitating to pass the same bill - which has the support of 90% of residents - because Monsanto has threatened to sue the state if legislators pass H.722.
A coalition of nearly 400 businesses and organizations filed a legal petition with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to require mandatory labeling of GMOs. Last month, the Just Label It campaign delivered over one million comments in support of labeling to the FDA. It hasn't budged.
Worldwide opposition to Monsanto and "the agro-industrial model it represents" is growing, with recent actions in France, India, Haiti, South Africa and the US.
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