Rural Vermont is Plaintiff in Federal Lawsuit Challenging "Bioengineered" GMO Food Labeling

Rural Vermont is plaintiff in a federal lawsuit that the Center For Food Safety filed today, July 28, against the Trump Administration’s Department of Agriculture (USDA) GMO labeling rules that implement a federal law that preempted the Vermont GMO labeling law in 2016. Read the press release here.  (Read the filed complaint here.) Spearheaded by George Kimbrell (CFS counsel in the case), Rural Vermont is tremendously proud to take our two decades long advocacy to the end game and together we’ll do everything we can to have the persistence of the food movement uphold what is the peoples demand: the consumer's right-to-know if their food was produced with Genetically engineered (GE) organisms. Transparent and clear GE labeling is a right enjoyed by many across the globe, and it's time we have that too. We give a shout out to the significant shepherding on this issue of the two former Rural Vermont Executive Directors: Amy Shollenberger (founder of Action Circles) and Andrea Stander (Rural Vermont Policy Consultant) – your passion got us here, let’s celebrate that today.

For more information please contact Rural Vermont’s Legislative Director, Caroline Gordon @ caroline@ruralvermont.org.