GMO labeling
It was a disappointing year at the ballot box for the pro-GMO labeling campaigners with the I-522 initiative in Washington going the same way as the Prop 37 initiative in California in 2012.
Despite defeat in the polls, the I-522 effort heralded the result as a victory by Gary Hirschberg, chairman of Stonyfield Farms and the Just Label It campaign.
So what next? The Yes on I-522 campaign has vowed to keep fighting and will be back in 2016, while some industry sources predict that ‘Big Food’ and the biotech companies will move the fight to Capitol Hill and a federal decision on GMO labeling. 2014 promises to be interesting...