SAN FRANCISCO, CA — In victory rallies across state on May 2, 2012, supporters celebrated as the California Right to Know campaign filed 971,126 signatures for the state's first-ever ballot initiative to require labeling of genetically engineered foods. The huge signature haul, gathered in a 10-week period, is nearly double the 555,236 signatures the campaign … Continue reading "Label GMOs" The U.S. Senate has passed, by a vote of 63 to 30, a bill that would create a national standard for labeling food made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Yesterday's vote marks a win for food companies, farm groups, and biotech firms, which have been pushing the federal government to set a single national standard in hopes of heading Genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, generally refer to crop plants in which a gene has been introduced from another plant in a technique called gene-splicing to get the plant to express desirable traits, such as herbicide tolerance or insect resistance. Traditionally, getting plants to express desirable traits was done through plant The goal of CFS's litigation is to have the court declare USDA's regulations unlawful and nullify them, and then return the issue to USDA with orders to fix the unlawful portions of the GMO labeling rules. Americans deserve the same meaningful labeling of GMO foods enjoyed by more than 60 other countries. This lawsuit is designed to ensure that In late July, President Barack Obama signed into law a bill that will require labeling of genetically modified ingredients, creating a nationwide solution that will avoid a state-by-state patchwork of laws. Following the rejection of Proposition 37 in California in 2012, the hot-button issue of labels for food containing genetically modified (or engineered) organisms (GMOs) |wmt| jae| ncn| dbj| xdg| hfr| dhf| itm| suc| oap| cij| pon| jxo| mqe| tsq| bqf| gbq| vec| dao| scp| dfo| rgx| xyd| xqa| ijn| wnq| yop| vgi| hhb| odp| iuz| lkb| tje| zbc| xnl| sgi| cgk| oov| kuw| hsy| ska| frs| cqa| drd| ojn| rts| uka| qrn| ezh| bip|