Now that California voters have rejected the initiative to label genetically modified foods, the fight moves on to other states. Before we speculate on how those efforts might play out, let's first be clear on what the fight is actually about. In a piece at Time, Bryan Walsh argues that
the battle over [California's] Prop 37 and GM food was never really about science or health. It's about politics "” and who should control the U.S. food system.
This is true for people like Michael Pollan, but for those like Grist's Susie Cagle, who want GM foods to be labeled with the "grinning face of genetically modified death," something else is at work.
Cagle is a fan of the Label It Yourself campaign, which asserts:
While we do not know for sure the longterm impacts of GMO's, increasing evidence connects them with serious health risks (including infertility, birth defects, allergies, ...
