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“We are going to force them to label this food. If we have it labeled, then we can organize people not to buy it.”
— Andrew Kimbrell, executive director, Center for Food Safety.
This month, Campbell’s Soup Company became the first major food corporation to announce its support of mandatory GMO labels and will voluntarily label their own products as such. In a statement, the company said, “GMO has evolved to be a top consumer food issue reaching a critical mass of 92 percent of consumers in favor of putting it on the label.”
But is this really the case?
As the U.S. Senate prepares to consider GMO labeling legislation in the coming months, pro-labeling groups are insisting this issue is consumer-driven. But the GMO labeling movement is about as organic as a Twinkie. It’s the result of a carefully orchestrated marketing campaign – largely funded by the organic industry – to vilify genetically modified food. . .
About a GMO label, OCA President Ronnie Cummins says: “The burning question for us then becomes how – and how quickly – can we move healthy, organic products from a 4.2 percent market niche to the dominant force in American food and farming? The first step is to change our labeling laws.”
Consumers and lawmakers need to be aware of the back-story to the so-called consumer-led GMO labeling movement. If approved, a mandatory label will be nothing more than a bulls-eye for these folks to further their attacks on genetically modified food.
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