Internal documents from the Grocery Manufacturers Association reveal height of corporate chutzpah. Industry's solution to GMO labeling is to: "Pursue statutory federal preemption which does not include a labeling requirement."
With the disappointing results now in from I-522, the initiative in Washington State that would have required labeling of genetically-engineered food (aka GMOs), the looming question is, what's next? At least for the junk food lobby, that answer in painfully clear: Stop this state-level movement at any cost. In today's New York Times, Stephanie Strom reports on the dirty details contained in industry documents that I obtained from the Washington State attorney general's office in the wake of a lawsuit brought against the Grocery Manufacturers Association for illegally concealing donors to the No on 522 campaign.
As I explained back in February, the food industry's ultimate game plan to stop the bleeding in the state-by-state onslaught of GMO labeling efforts is to lobby for a weak federal law that simultaneously preempts or trumps any state-level policy. While we have known that industry would want to put an end to the public relations nightmare happening state by state, this document for the first time reveals the lobbyists' specific strategy.
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