Articles Archive for 26 June 2007
Civil Rights, Sustainability »
From Hardin’s River Mercantile Newsletter. Forward this to anyone you know who might be interested.
ALERT: Congress Passes Provision Removing Local Rights to Regulate Food and Farms
Since 1988 the biotech industry and industrial food corporations have unsuccessfully tried to take away local and states’ rights to ban or regulate genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and other controversial foods and crops. For example, OCA and other public interest groups successfully generated a mass outcry in 2006 that blocked the passage of the National Uniformity for Food Act. This highly unpopular bill would have …

