This is the real business of government that affects our everyday lives. Vermont (Bernie Sander’s state) has GMO labelling laws. Food producers are currently adding GMO labeling so they can sell in Vermont. But they don’t like it. So they invested a lot of money and influence on a federal bill that will override the Vermont one.
It says, OK, so we have to label, but it’s too onerous to put it in writing on the label (as Vermont required, and many European countries do), so we’ll just encode it in a QR or bar code on the label. Anyone with a cell phone can look it up.
Here is big business, buying it’s way into the laws of our land. Maybe GMO is fine, that’s not the issue. The issue is we have a right to know, and the government supports big agribusiness in making it difficult to know.
This is the crap that happens all the time.
Here’s my point — We have no idea how either Clinton or Trump will behave in this area. We have no idea what sorts of decisions they’ll make for us day to day. Will they support this type of business sponsored legislation? Or not?
All we hear about is email servers and pussy grabbing. Neither of those issues will have the impact on our lives as, for example, this latest GMO labeling act.
We DO know how Gary Johnson would govern. His campaign information addresses this sort of topic. He explains that the executive does NOT make the laws. The legislature does. So the president cannot create laws. But, he can veto them.
And so he did. He gives as an example a bill that crossed his desk when he was governor. It was labeled something like The Fair Cable Act. It was written and sponsored by the cable company to protect their monopoly. Gary Johnson vetoed it. And all others like it.
(He was disliked by his state legislature, and loved by his constituents.)
