Tag: GE ingredients
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In a Remarkable Triumph of Democracy Over Corporate Power, GMO Labeling Has Finally Arrived in the U.S.
By Andrew Kimbrell Is your right to know finally here? For that last 15 years, numerous organizations and legislators have been battling to require the labeling of genetically engineered foods. During that time, 64 other countries have mandated this labeling, but not the U.S. Many of us in the food movement have said that it…
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Changing Labels Won’t Increase Food Prices
As a lobbyist for the food industry, I spent five years fighting proposals that would have raised food prices — ranging from ethanol mandates that drove up the cost of corn and other commodities to taxes that consumers had to pay at the register. At a time when so many Americans have been struggling to…