What's For Dinner?

Tonight: State legislatures are a crucial battle ground for food rights issues. By mid-April, 2014, Vermont had passed the first Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) labeling bill in the US, and the Grocery Manufactures' Association had gotten a bill offered in the US House to preempt state GMO labeling. Pete Kennedy, Board President of Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund, describes beating back an article slipped into an unrelated bill in Illinois to ban raw milk sales to consumers on farms. Pat Fiero, Lead Regional Organizer, Move-On New England, tells how the MA GM labeling law is one committee away from the floor of the legislature. David Gumpert, writer on raw milk and food rights, describes raw milk as a food rights lightening rod for consumers and the FDA.