The following is an excerpt.
Biotech industry lawyers claim federal courts will strike down mandatory state GMO labeling for three reasons:
1) Because federal law, in this case FDA regulations, pre-empts state law.
2) Because commercial free speech allows corporations to remain silent on whether or not their products are genetically engineered.
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3) Because GMO labeling would interfere with interstate commerce.
These claims simply don’t hold up. State GMO labeling, and other food safety and food labeling laws, are constitutional. Federal law, upheld for decades by federal court legal decisions, allows states to pass laws relating to food safety or food labels when the FDA has no prior regulations or prohibitions in place.
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