Window is closing on ability to require labeling of GMOs

By Ira Zunin

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Feb 23, 2013

~~<p>With increasing fervor, citizens across the state are speaking out against genetically modified food (GMO) and demanding legislation that, at the least, requires labeling of these products. Multinational agribusiness has a great deal at stake and has invested heavily across the country to defeat these bills. Previously, this column covered the failed attempt to pass legislation in California after agribusiness outspent proponents of GMO labeling $40 million to $7 million.</p>
<p>In 2013 there have been more measures to label or ban GMOs in Hawaii than ever before, in both the House and Senate. From a political standpoint, the new organizing majority in the House seems to be in favor of passing these measures. In the Senate, only one GMO labeling measure is still alive.</p>
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With increasing fervor, citizens across the state are speaking out against genetically modified food (GMO) and demanding legislation that, at the least, requires labeling of these products. Multinational agribusiness has a great deal at stake and has invested heavily across the country to defeat these bills. Previously, this column covered the failed attempt to pass legislation in California after agribusiness outspent proponents of GMO labeling $40 million to $7 million.

In 2013 there have been more measures to label or ban GMOs in Hawaii than ever before, in both the House and Senate. From a political standpoint, the new organizing majority in the House seems to be in favor of passing these measures. In the Senate, only one GMO labeling measure is still alive. Login for more...