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garybeck

(9,939 posts)
Fri Mar 1, 2013, 09:39 PM Mar 2013

Vermont House committee approves GMO food-labeling bill

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/viewart/20130301/NEWS03/303010031/GMO-genetically-modified-organisms-vermont-legislature

MONTPELIER — The Agriculture Committee in the Vermont House has approved a bill calling for genetically modified foods to be specially labeled.

The bill lays out technical definitions for what constitutes genetic modification, and says food that has been subject to those techniques must bear a label saying so.

The legislation faces an uncertain future, and is expected to go next to the House Judiciary Committee, before being debated by the full House.

Supporters of the House bill say consumers want information about what’s in their food.

The bill has drawn warnings from the attorney general’s office that it’s likely to be challenged in a lawsuit brought by industry.
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Vermont House committee approves GMO food-labeling bill (Original Post) garybeck Mar 2013 OP
"consumers want information about what’s in their food" bananas Mar 2013 #1
this should be a no-brainer nationally upi402 Mar 2013 #2

bananas

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1. "consumers want information about what’s in their food"
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 08:13 PM
Mar 2013

How is that a difficult concept to understand?

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