Senate Bill to Stop GMO Laws Monsanto Opposes, Sanders Likes
- Roberts moving to pre-empt Vermont law taking effect July 1
- Bernie Sanders opposes change to law passed in his state
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Congress may be headed for an election-year decision on whether to help big food companies that don’t want to comply with a new Vermont state law designed to give consumers more information about what’s on their plates.
The Senate Agriculture Committee is negotiating legislation that would invalidate state rules mandating labels for food containing genetically modified organisms -- including the one scheduled to go into effect July 1 in Vermont. Instead, the senators propose creating a voluntary federal labeling program.