Hawaii AG Backs Vermont GMO Labeling Law

[RiverLover]

Hawaii AG Backs Vermont GMO Labeling Law
20 hours ago

Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin signed onto a brief defending Vermont’s right to require labels on food containing genetically engineered ingredients. Vermont’s law has been challenged by the Grocery Manufacturers Association and several other groups representing the food industry. They are appealing the case before the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

Chin joined attorneys general from Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Illinois, New Hampshire and Washington in signing an amicus brief contending that the Vermont law is constitutional and legal.

“The plaintiffs’ members sell food for profit in states like Vermont and Connecticut,” the brief says. “Yet they desire to withhold certain information about the products they sell. A significant portion of Vermont’s consuming public, as reflected in the enactment of legislation by their elected representatives, wants that information. As a foremost principle of the First Amendment, speech – and particularly speech about commercial information – should be promoted, not concealed.”

The Hawaii Legislature has repeatedly considered GMO food labeling bills but hasn’t passed them. County councils on Kauai, Maui and the Big Island have separately passed bills aiming to regulate GMO farming but those have been struck down by federal courts.

In the brief, Chin and the other attorneys general argue that the label “produced with genetic engineering” is “factual and uncontroversial.” “Because it mandates disclosing only accurate factual information, Vermont’s labeling requirement furthers, rather than obstructs, the availability and flow of commercial information,” the brief says....

full story~
http://www.civilbeat.com/2015/09/hawaii-ag-backs-vermont-gmo-labeling-law/

....Meanwhile, in the RED state of Wyoming~

Wyoming lawmakers to consider resolution endorsing GMO foods

oh please

[msongs]

1. TPP will put a stop to all this socialist nonsense nt

[truebrit71]

2. Right?

But it'll level the playing field....

[RiverLover]

3. Well it will spread the US undemocratic way of blocking all democratically voted for bans

if it means powerful rich people will make a little less $$$.