Farm open house educates about GMOs

One goal of the open house which Stan Mehmen emphasized was to fill in a gap in education for vendors and consumers, as the MBS Family Farms he founded in rural Plainfield hosted an open house for its 40th anniversary on Wednesday, Sept. 7.
Sharing the story of biotech or genetically modified organisms (GMOs) was near to his heart, Mehmen said. Back in July, Congress passed and President Barack Obama signed into law a GMO labeling bill that requires food packages to display an electronic label (“QR code”), text label or some sort of symbol signifying whether or not they contain GMOs. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will have up to two years to write the rules.
The food industry (such as Farm Bureau) wished to see a national, uniform standard for labeling products with GMOs to supersede varying laws passed by states. The push came as Vermont passed its own labeling act.
Read the full article in the September 15 edition of the papers.