Prop. 37 Will Test California's Appetite For GMO Food
International food and chemical conglomerates, including Monsanto Co. and DuPont Co., have contributed about $35 million to defeat Proposition 37 on the November ballot. It also would ban labeling or advertising genetically altered food as "natural.www.huffingtonpost.com
GUEST OPINION: No on Prop. 37
Proposition 37 is being sold to voters as a measure to provide consumers with more information about what's in their food.www.pressdemocrat.com
GUEST OPINION: Yes on Prop. 37
Proposition 37 would label foods that contain genetically engineered ingredients. Also called GMOs, these are plants or animals that have had their DNA artificially altered by genes from other species in ways that can't occur in nature.www.pressdemocrat.com
Prop 37: California Soil Scientist Says Label Up!
For some reason, Proposition 37, or The Right to Know Genetically Engineered Foods Act, has the food, biotech and pesticide industries shaking in their fancy, fat-cat boots.www.huffingtonpost.com
Foes of Prop. 37 forced to alter ad
The Prop. 37 campaign and Stanford's legal division took issue with the latest ad, which began airing Oct. 2 and stars Dr.www.sfgate.com
No on Prop. 37: IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, Nine More California Newspapers ...
No on Prop. 37: IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, Nine More California Newspapers Oppose Prop. 37. Quicklink submitted by Tracy Turner (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark).www.opednews.com
Prop 37: What a waste
No, Prop 37 will be different. It will change our lives in so many ways. It will increase the number of notices on the food packages we already don't read.www.vcstar.com
Lines drawn over biotech foods and labels
Kathy Fairbanks, spokeswoman for the organization of seed companies, grocery chains and food processors that is fighting Prop 37 in California, said Prop 37, if enacted and enforced, would be a field day for trial lawyers and add up to $400 a year to ...www.delawareonline.com
Say 'yes' to Prop. 37
This proposition does not stop the use of GMOs on our food. It only requires that products that contain GMOs are labeled, so that we are given the choice to choose safe food for our families.www.timesheraldonline.com
In Prop 37 food fight, is fair play losing out?
In the bruising, high-dollar battle over California's Proposition 37, truth has often been a casualty. On Nov. 6, voters will decide whether to approve the country's first law requiring labels for genetically modified foods.www.mercurynews.com
Prop 37 Critics Crush Supporters in Financing Contributions
Monsanto Company, alone, has contributed $7.1 million in opposition to Proposition 37, which would require genetically modified food to be labeled, according to MapLight Voter's Edge for California, a self-described nonpartisan guide to ballot measures.www.naturalproductsinsider.com
Say yes to Prop. 37 and goodbye to food industry's smoke and mirrors
Proposition 37, also known as the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act, will require labels to let consumers know if their food has been genetically modified.www.goldengatexpress.org
PRO: Should genetically engineered foods be labeled?
Proposition 37, the California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act, will be on the November ballot. Companies such as Monsanto, Dupont and Syngenta will probably create ads telling us that labeling is expensive and unnecessary because GMOs ...www.jewishjournal.com
No on Prop. 37: IN CASE YOU MISSED IT, Nine More Newspapers Oppose Prop ...
Voters should be concerned that Prop. 37 would likely spawn waves of lawsuits, with the litigation and enforcement costs passed on to grocers and the consumers.www.sacbee.com
LA Times encourages California voters to reject Proposition 37
California voters will have the opportunity next month to vote to require some, but not all, food sold in the state and produced with genetic engineering be labeled as such.www.cattlenetwork.com
Prop. 37 Is About Language, Not Concept
While Prop. 37 is being framed as a 'right to know', people who claim to be literate should actually read what it will do, not what partisans being financed by out-of-state special interests claim; instead of being about food transparency, it is a way ...www.science20.com
California Prop 37 - Rebuttal to Annoying Pro-GMO TV Ads
The Showa Denko Tryptophan disaster killed 37 and permanently disabled 1,500 people in the US via a disease known as eosonophil myalgia syndrome (EMS) in circa 1989-1991.www.opednews.com
No on Prop. 37 opinion: Genetically engineered food-labeling law is too flawed
However, a close read of Proposition 37 reveals a complicated and deeply flawed measure that includes special-interest loopholes, would increase grocery bills for California families, open a floodgate of shakedown lawsuits and increase state ...www.thereporter.com
Response to claims regarding Prop. 37
Benson imagines an "expanded" Prop 37 and describes how awful it would be. What he describes isn't being proposed.www.record-bee.com
University of California at Davis Reports Make Dubious Claims on Prop 37
The first, entitled "California's Proposition 37: Effects of Mandatory Labeling of GM Food," was co-authored by University of California at Davis professor Colin Carter and published in the newsletter of the University of California Giannini Foundation ...www.huffingtonpost.com
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