“I believe it is none of our business what we’re putting in our mouths,” Stephen Colbert joked about Washington’s GMO labeling bill in the wake of the defeat of I-522. “I want genetically modified foods. Because you are what you eat and I’m hoping one day a mutant tomato can give me heat vision.”
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