In the US, food requires labelling for identity, for nutrition and for potential allergic reactions.
The ballot initiative would have required labeling for some genetically engineered foods.
His vice-presidential choice, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, sponsored legislation to require labeling for recordings, movies and video games, with penalties for selling taboo material to children.
Colorado and Oregon voted against requiring labeling for GMO foods, and bear biologists in Maine were happy that the voters there rejected a measure that would have barred the use of food bait, which the scientists say is an important tool for population management and research.
Obama promised to require labeling for genetically modified food on the campaign trail back in 2007, but since taking office, he's done little to advance that cause.
The food industry spent $9 million lobbying Congress to oppose laws requiring labeling for genetically modified products in the first quarter of this year, nearly matching its total spending for all of last year, a new report said.
And if the FDA was really serious about informing consumers, wouldn't it require labels for added GMOs? Therein lies the rub.
Just a year after Vermont became the first state to require labels for products made with genetically modified organisms, Governor Peter Shumlin on Thursday signed an equally controversial but very different kind of legislation: the state has now become the first to remove philosophical exemptions from its vaccination law.
Democrats in the U.S. Senate yesterday blocked a mostly Republican-led effort to bar states from requiring labels for foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Under current federal law, restaurant foods do not require ingredient labeling, so it makes sense to not require labels for genetic engineering.
