Consumers have a right to know what’s in their food, but this proposal was flawed.
California’s Proposition 37 (aka “Prop 37”), requiring genetically modified/engineered ingredients to be listed on food labels, was voted down during the recent election. Millions of dollars were spent on both sides to sway the minds of voters, but many legal experts claimed the proposition was poorly written, inconclusive and had too many loopholes that would have had processors scrambling and kept lawyers “in the green” for years to come. Prop 37 received 4,845,291 NO votes (53.1 percent of the vote) and 4,285,787 YES votes (46.9 percent).
“Genetically engineered foods found on market shelves have most commonly been altered in a lab to either be resistant to being sprayed by large amounts of toxic herbicides, or to produce, internally, their own insecticide,” says Mark A. Kastel, co-director of The Cornucopia Institute.