Re: [blind-democracy] GMO Labels Are Now the Law of the Land

We all know how effective volunteering works with the corporations.
As I understand it, this labeling is a weak piece of legislation whose
main impact will be to block a much stronger law in the State of
Vermont. I wonder how many of us will be able to "read" the new
labels, if and when they do appear. They will be in a bar code that
can only be read using a smart phone. I wonder how these corporations
would like having their product labels regulated to be shown only as a
bar code?
Well, we'll put a smiley face on this bill and say that it opens
dialog, even though it's purpose is to close down the entire push for
GMO labeling.

Carl Jarvis


On 7/31/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> Johnson writes: "We're officially a country that labels GMOs now. President
> Obama signed a bill on Friday that requires food companies to label
> products
> with genetically engineered ingredients."
>
> Rally for GMO labels. (photo: Stephen Lam/Reuters)
>
>
> GMO Labels Are Now the Law of the Land
> By Nathanael Johnson, Grist
> 31 July 16
>
> We're officially a country that labels GMOs now. President Obama signed a
> bill on Friday that requires food companies to label products with
> genetically engineered ingredients. They can do this by writing it on the
> box, slapping on a symbol, or applying a Quick Response (QR) code -
> something like a barcode. For more on the law, check out our previous
> coverage.
> Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, who was instrumental in
> pushing
> the bill through Congress, praised its passage in a statement. She said the
> law "gives our nation's farmers and food companies a fresh opportunity to
> start a conversation with consumers about the importance and safety of
> biotechnology."
> The U.S. Department of Agriculture now has two years to figure out how to
> define a GMO. Are they crops that have had their genes tweaked or silenced,
> or mutated with radiation? Should the definition be narrowly focused on the
> original transgenic crops? There will undoubtedly be fights during the
> rule-making process.
> This new law overrides Vermont's GMO-labeling law and prevents any other
> state-level GMO-labeling attempts, but it allows voluntary labeling to
> continue.
>
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> valid.
>
> Rally for GMO labels. (photo: Stephen Lam/Reuters)
> https://grist.org/politics/gmo-labels-are-now-the-law-of-the-land/https://gr
> ist.org/politics/gmo-labels-are-now-the-law-of-the-land/
> GMO Labels Are Now the Law of the Land
> By Nathanael Johnson, Grist
> 31 July 16
> e're officially a country that labels GMOs now. President Obama signed a
> bill on Friday that requires food companies to label products with
> genetically engineered ingredients. They can do this by writing it on the
> box, slapping on a symbol, or applying a Quick Response (QR) code -
> something like a barcode. For more on the law, check out our previous
> coverage.
> Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, who was instrumental in
> pushing
> the bill through Congress, praised its passage in a statement. She said the
> law "gives our nation's farmers and food companies a fresh opportunity to
> start a conversation with consumers about the importance and safety of
> biotechnology."
> The U.S. Department of Agriculture now has two years to figure out how to
> define a GMO. Are they crops that have had their genes tweaked or silenced,
> or mutated with radiation? Should the definition be narrowly focused on the
> original transgenic crops? There will undoubtedly be fights during the
> rule-making process.
> This new law overrides Vermont's GMO-labeling law and prevents any other
> state-level GMO-labeling attempts, but it allows voluntary labeling to
> continue.
> http://e-max.it/posizionamento-siti-web/socialize
> http://e-max.it/posizionamento-siti-web/socialize
>
>
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