May 16, 2014
By Organic Consumers Association

As if it hasn’t been an uphill battle so far, trying to defeat Big Food and the Gene Giants in order to pass GMO labeling laws. It’s about to get worse.

Defying repeated threats of a lawsuit from Monsanto and the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), on May 8, Peter Shumlin, Governor of Vermont, signed a historic bill requiring food manufacturers to label genetically engineered (GE) foods and to drop the practice of labeling GE foods as “natural” or “all natural.”

Read the essay: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_30039.cfm