Vermont Forces GMO National Labeling

Despite the fact that GMO's as a whole use less pesticides, less water, and in general are cheaper to produce, there are those who oppose them on the basis that they are bad for you. Study after study has proven that GMO's are just as nutritious as conventional food, but some critics still demand that food should be labeled in order to warn people that many of the products they consume use GMO's. Many families in the 1st District already have problems with access to healthy and affordable food. Mandatory Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) labeling could raise the cost of that food, and for no verifiable scientific reason. However, Vermont recently implemented its own state law that requires certain types of GMO labeling, and other States are already working on similar legislation. In order to prevent a patchwork of different state laws, which would become very complicated for food manufactures and costly for families at the supermarket, Congress this week passed national food labeling legislation that would replace complicated state-by-state rules.