Vermont recently passed a Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) labeling law, because, of course, you should know what you’re eating.
Monsanto and the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) claim that GMO foods are safe, yet they don’t want you to know you’re eating them – they filed suit June 12th to over turn the law.
It did not take long for the corporate food bullies to put profits before people’s health. On June 12th, Monsanto and the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) filed a lawsuit in federal U.S. District Court, State of Vermont, to overturn Vermont’s recently passed Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) labeling law.
The GMA is a “who’s who” of some of the most powerful food corporations known for abusing consumers’ trust and serving up some of the worst health-damaging “manufactured food” found in grocery stores. Some of the key members of the GMA include well-known brand names like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, The Hershey Company, General Mills, Unilever, Kraft Foods, Del Monte Foods and the H.J Heinz Company, as well as agri-food/GMO giants Monsanto, Cargill and ConAgra.
According to the Organic Consumers Association, years of good old-fashioned work, and playing by the rules helped the grassroots labeling movement achieve its first real victory this year, when Vermont passed the first no-strings-attached law requiring mandatory labeling of foods containing GMOs. Every citizen deserves the right to know what he or she is eating. Every state deserves the right to protect its residents and its environment without being threatened by multi-billion dollar corporations.
The danger in this lawsuit extends far beyond the beautiful state of Vermont. Even though state regulators are confident that their labeling law is just and will hold up in court, you cannot underestimate the sphere of influence and deep pockets of the GMA and its members. A loss to these corporations would jeopardize similar GMO labeling legislation in 29 other U.S. states. This may be the goal of the GMA: to intimidate law makers and citizens who believe people should have freedom of choice when it comes to the food they eat and how it is made.
Even people who advocate for genetically-modified organisms in food or remain ambivalent to the whole GMO issue should be concerned about this lawsuit. Labeling food with its true ingredients should not be a problem when there is nothing to hide. The GMA’s lawsuit is another alarming example of the erosion of rights and freedoms at the state and citizen level. As a consumer, it is your right to know what companies are passing off as food and you should be free to expect this basic protection from your regulators and law makers. Vermont’s GMO labeling bill is not treading on the individual rights of Americans, it is upholding them.
Amen…..we have been consuming poisons for decades.
TYSON, MONSANTO AND BUNCH OTHER THUG LOBBIEST NEED SOME KINDA CONTROLS
OMG Good for them! I’m shocked I thought Vermont is a blue state ! ovomit won’t let them get away with it !
There are pro’s and con’s about this subject. However, the food prices are going up, government has gotten too involved in dictating to the farmers what they can or cannot grow, transportation costs have skyrocked and are continuing to clim because obama won’t allow access to lands or lessen up policies by the EPA to free up our energy resources…. on and on. A lot of our foods are already monsant but they are not all poisons, in fact, they may keep this Country from starvation down the road. Government has already trying to “take over” the food industry and this is not ok.
Hillary is on Monsantos payroll.
monsanto is poisoning us, no other country will have them, they banned mobsanto
Nh should be next along with texas , Vermont will stand its ground if the politicians know what is good for them
F**E!
Monsanto has lost all credibility. It’s a shame too, Paul Harvey used to advertise for them .
start canning planting and making gardens you will need it