Wait, That's GMO, Too? by Anna Minard - Seattle News - The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
I'm wandering the aisles of Central Co-op, a natural foods market on Capitol Hill, checking its shelves for genetically engineered foods. Once you know what to look for, it turns out those ingredients are everywhere—even here, among the fake meats and packages covered in leafy art, smiling animals, and hand-lettering. They're in the whole-grain bread, in the veggie burgers, in the peanut-free soy nut butter. You can't always tell from friendly labels—"100% natural," "multi-grain," "fair trade." But you may be able to tell soon.
Washington State will be voting in November on Initiative 522, which would require food made with genetically engineered ingredients (also known as genetically modified organisms, or GMOs) to be labeled as such at the retail level.
Still, the opposition to labeling is fierce. In November, Proposition
37, which would've mandated labeling of GMO foods, lost on the
California ballot after the opposition dumped more than $45 million into
a campaign arguing that labeling GMOs would be deceptive, pointless,
and expensive.
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