Tri States Public Radio Staff Fri October 26, 2012 As California
Vote Looms, Scientists Say No To Genetically Modified Food
Labels Originally published on Fri October 26, 2012 4:05 pm This
election season, Californians are being served up gargantuan
helpings of advertising about a proposal to require food in the
Golden State to be labeled if it includes genetically modified
ingredients. On Nov. 6, voters will decide on Proposition 37.
Proponents say people simply have a right to know what's in
their food. The food and biotechnology industry argues that
labeling creates a false impression that there's something amiss
about foods that come from engineered crops. And now the world's
largest general scientific society is weighing in on the debate.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science says
labeling would "mislead and falsely alarm consumers." The AAAS —
best known for publishing Science magazine — says genetically
modified foods are fundamentally no different from
conventionally bred foods. In f