Why a Federal GMO Labeling Law Could Be Worthless
July 3rd, 2013
They don’t want you to know what goes into your “food.”
(TruthStreamMedia) – Prop 37 – which aimed to mandate GMO food labels in California– was a big showdown battle where mounting public concern was ultimately defeated by the power of big industry money. The momentum for labeling genetically modified ingredients, and bringing about greater food transparency is being co-opted by Big Organic players meeting at the table with the biggest biotech and Big Food corporations.
These opposing sides have planned a compromise around a federal GMO labeling scheme that likely will lack teeth and render useless any state-level labeling laws that would put in place real restrictions. Melissa Melton and Aaron Dykes give examples of countries where labeling laws are circumvented by loopholes that require only soy and corn to be labeled, while letting slip through oils and other combination frankenfoods.
The infiltration and takeover of regulatory agencies and policy making engines in government, along with legal prowess to write exemptions and loopholes, has allowed the major biotech corps – including Monsanto – to flip the idea of a food regulators on its head and convert watchdogs into collaborators who aid in funding and approving GM crops, as well as give cover to keep the public in the dark about what is transpiring behind the scenes with food.
AARON DYKES AND MELISSA MELTON created TruthstreamMedia.com, where this article first appeared, as an outlet to examine the news, place it in a broader context, uncover the deceptions, pierce through the fabric of illusions, grasp the underlying factors, know the real enemy, unshackle from the system, and begin to imagine the path towards taking back our lives, one step at a time, so that one day we might truly be free…
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July 3rd, 2013 at 12:31 pm
Remember this?
Loblaws orders GMO-free labels removed
Loblaws, Canada’s largest grocery retailer, has ordered its suppliers to remove or cover by Sept.1st, any labels that identify food as being free of genetically modified ingredients.
The move has angered many of the organic food processors that market their breakfast cereals, pastas and other products in the store’s health food department as being free of chemical additives and genetically modified material.
In a memo sent to suppliers in late January, Jamie Cooney, director of procurement of health food for Loblaws, said the products of distributors who didn’t remove the non-GMO labels could be removed from the grocery chain’s shelves.
“It is our position that until such time as a government and-or industry-supported definition of genetic modification exists in Canada we will not support product packaging containing non-GMO claims…
Source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/loblaws-orders-gmo-free-labels-removed/article4149208/