The Irish Green Party has given a warm reception to the European Parliament’s decision to impose stricter labelling requirements for genetically modified foods.
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Green Party MEP Patricia McKenna called the vote “a victory for the Greens’ zero-tolerance approach to illegal GM organisms […]This vote is crucial because it upholds the right of consumers to know what is in the food they eat and it also sends a strong signal to the biotech industry and in particular the US biotech lobby that we are not for turning on proper labelling of GMOs.
Members of the US farming industry were, naturally, less enthusiastic. For more information, click here.
