by Long Island Attorney Paul A. Lauto, Esq.
In response to the proposed King Amendment to the Farm Bill which would eliminate state rights, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) proposed an Amendment to uphold state rights. The Sanders Amendment sought simply to allow states to decide for themselves, as to whether or not they wanted to protect their residents with a GMO label law.
Sanders opined, “Monsanto and other major corporations should not get to decide this, the people and their elected representatives should... The concept we’re talking about today is a fairly commonsense and non-radical idea... All over the world, in the European Union, in many other countries around the world, dozens and dozens of countries, people are able to look at the food that they are buying and determine through labeling whether or not that product contains genetically modified organisms.”
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