Debates over genetically-modified foods (GMOs) are heating
up.
In Europe, politicians have voted to allow member states to
do as they wish on the GMO issue.
Some, such as France, are likely to continue with bans on
some GMO crops; the United Kingdom is likely to embrace them as major
improvements.
In New York State, those who are opposed to GMO labeling
have already spent $3.7 million on a campaign that has yet to have a vote set.
Vermont passed a GMO-labeling law last month, but how faces
a legal challenge from a group headed by the Grocery Manufacturers Association.
They filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Burlington
yesterday.
Maine and Connecticut have also passed GMO labeling
legislation.
Companies in the food business say they will face huge
additional costs as the 50 states are headed into different sets of
regulations.
The federal government has said there is no nutritional
difference between crops that are or are not developed with GMO technology.
