Next Five Days Could Determine the Fate of GMO Labeling in the U.S.

For all their posturing, for all their proclamations that Vermont’s law must be preempted or “chaos will ensue,” key Senate proponents of a federal bill to preempt Vermont’s mandatory GMO labeling bill have yet to produce a viable version of the bill, much less pass such a bill.

Now, they’re down to five days. The anti-labeling brigade has just five working days (including today, June 16, 2016) to preempt Vermont’s law before it takes effect July 1.

Five working days, before the House adjourns for the July 4 holiday recess on June 24. And because any bill passed by the Senate would have to go back to the House, before it goes to a full vote in Congress, it doesn’t matter if the Senate is in session for 15 days. Without the House, the Senate’s hands are tied. 

That leaves five days to produce a new Senate version of the bill, to secure enough votes to pass the new version in the Senate, to reconcile the Senate version with the House version (passed in July 2015), and to hold a full vote by both House and Senate.

Five days. And counting.

That means we have five days to defend Vermont’s labeling law. We need to make a record-breaking number of phone calls in the next 5 days. 

TAKE ACTION: Find out what you can do in the next five days to stop Congress from stomping out Vermont’s GMO labeling law.