BioTech and Big Food Companies Spin Science to Block GMO Labeling

For Immediate Release

September 5, 2015

BioTech and Big Food Companies Spin Science to Block GMO Labeling

In response to a New York Times story published today, Gary Hirshberg, Chairman of Just Label It, said:

Big biotech companies like Monsanto and big food companies like General Mills and Pepsi have spun the science to fight our right to know what’s in our food and how it’s grown. Nine out of 10 Americans — regardless of age, income or even party affiliation — simply want the right to know if GMOs are in their food, the same right held by consumers in 64 other nations. The Senate and the Obama administration should look at all of the science — including the clear and convincing evidence that GMO crops have fueled an explosion in weed killers linked to cancer — not just Monsanto’s “science” and reject legislation passed by the House to block state and federal GMO labeling.