Senate looks to ban states from requiring GMO labels

March 2, 2016

State’s rights do not extend to food labels. That appears to be the consensus of a Senate panel that voted 14 to six to approve federal legislation banning states from requiring food manufacturers to create labels alerting consumers to genetically modified organisms within.

Recent News

Waffle House Workers Strike for Fair Pay and Better Working Conditions

Waffle House workers in Conyers, Georgia, are now on their third day of striking over what they call the company’s unfair policies. Led by the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW), Waffle House employees are demanding an end to the mandatory “meal credit” deductions from their paychecks, along with better wages and improved working conditions.