By RFD Radio Network
The U.S. Senate passed a compromise bill last night that might change the way you look at a label on your food.
The Senate approved a new label, a QR code in fact, that would be on food products that you would scan and then a website would tell you if that item contained corn, soybeans or beets that had been genetically modified.
Republican Mark Kirk voted in favor of the bill, Democrat Dick Durbin voted no. The bill now heads to the House who recently passed their own labeling act. U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood (R, Ill.) says the other approach to let each individual state set label laws is unworkable and it could hurt the state’s economy.
“If we allow individual states to do GMO labeling, it hurts our agricultural community significantly,” said LaHood. “We need to have one standard for the entire country so we don’t have rogue states like Vermont and others. I think that hurts the economy, and it hurts our ag community in central and west central Illinois.”
LaHood says he prefers the House bill but will give the Senate bill a chance.
