Any day now, the U.S. Senate could vote on a Big Ag-supported bill known as the DARK Act – for Denying Americans the Right to Know – which would prohibit states from requiring labeling of genetically modified foods.
There’s plenty of science to be done with regards to GMOs and their consequence on health, and I’m not convinced that either genetic engineering is bad (namely because we’ve been doing it, through artificial selection, for generations) or that it’s always safe (because I’ve seen some strawberries that are just, well, too big). Having said that, this bill is called the DARK act, as in “denying American the right to know”, keeping Americans “in the dark.”