BREAKING: Supporters Of GMO Labeling Just Defeated Monsanto In The U.S. Senate
Foes of GMO foods won a huge victory this week when the US Senate blocked legislation that would have prevented states from requiring labeling on GMO products.
The Biotech Labeling Solutions Act, better known by opponents as the DARK (Deny Americans the Right to Know) Act, failed to obtain the 60 votes needed to “invoke cloture” and force a debate and final vote. The vote was 48 votes in favor of cloture, 49 against.
The bill would have overturned a GMO labeling law in Vermont that takes effect July 1.
“It’s not only a states’ rights issue but I think the American people ought to know what’s in their food,” US Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) said. “We’re not banning food in Vermont. All we’re saying is if you’re going to buy food know what’s in it.”
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After the vote, the act’s sponsor, Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kansas), withdrew the legislation and vowed to keep fighting for its passage.
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“That’s a great sign for Vermont and we should work together to make sure that they’re not back at this again next week,” Vermont’s Democratic Governor, Peter Shumlin, told National Public Radio.
Shumlin and other supporters of GMO labeling have their work cut for them. The Environmental Working Group reported that food and biotech companies spent $100 million on efforts to kill GMO labeling in the past year. Corporations fighting against GMO labeling include Kellogg, PepsiCo Inc., Monsanto and Dow Chemical Co.
The Center for Food Safety said the vote effectively defeated the bill. The group opposes the bill.
“The defeat of the DARK Act is a major victory for the food movement and America’s right to know,” said Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of the Center for Food Safety. “It also is an important victory for Democracy over the attempt of corporate interests to keep Americans in the Dark about the foods they buy and feed their families.”
The bill is Senate Bill 764.
4 comments:
Now that is what happens when people stand up and understand that their voice counts. When the people realize that THEY ARE THE GOVERNMENT...then we win!
So, is there a list of all the corporate greedy bastards who voted for this bill that can be put on the record? We also need the list of all the players in the Acts of War chemtrail campaign and where these bastards sleep at night.
This is one of those votes that belies all the assurances of certain members of the GOP that speak of honoring the constitution. Hatch, Grassley, and Sessions have disgraced us. I expected McCain and Graham to continue to be traitors. Some of the Democrats that usually stab us all in the back (and burning the constitution) actually had our back on this one. Confusion is the order of the day. Thank you Rand Paul for voting conscious instead of party. And Cruz and Rubio,.. your a DISGRACE for not voting at all. God help us all and save us from all these criminals on both sides of the isle who seem to trade the badge of TRAITOR back and forth.
Well, the truth is that it is really the US corporatist government that embraced GMOs. Not the public at large. It's also why they don't want GMO labeling but the public does. I wouldn't get too excited about this "win" as this pack is known to resort to all kinds of tricks to get their way eventually.
What everyone should know is that there has been a long history of ignoring and suppressing the real dangers of GMO foods which are saturated with pesticides from the biotech industry.
One of the earliest cases that has demonstrated that fact is the infamous tryptophan disaster of 1989 where the FDA ignored the warnings of their own scientists about the real risks of GMOs, simply to protect the business interests of the GMO industry, which they've been colluding with for decades - see http://www.supplements-and-health.com/l-tryptophan.html
The government-biotech industry cartel has the average person believing that they're protecting their health. Yet, lying about real facts, denying real facts, or minimizing or ignoring real facts is not protecting or helping the public, it's deceiving the public. That cartel also pays online trolls to denounce anti-gmo commentators and spread the corporate GMO hype....
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