Thanks to its status as the first state in the country to weigh in on the presidential primary races with its January caucus, Iowa plays a major role in early campaigning. That usually requires candidates to make friendly comments about ethanol, lionize the American Farmer, and eat folksy food at any number of small-town cafés and diners. This election cycle, however, the leading candidates in the Democratic primary are staking out more nuanced positions on something near and dear to Iowa politics: genetically engineered crops such as corn and soy, which blanket much of the state.

 

At a Thursday campaign event in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton, who worked for the law firm that represents Monsanto in the 1980s, said she supported GMOs in general but is “against what’s a movement right now in the Congress, which is to preempt state decision-making regarding GMOs,” referencing what anti-GMO activists have dubbed the DARK Act—Denying Americans the Right to Know. Instead of disallowing state-level labeling measures—as the bill currently working its way through Congress would—Clinton said she’s in favor of “efforts to try to move toward labeling and to try to encourage companies to use technology like bar codes and other techniques online.” Clinton’s idea would allow concerned customers to learn more about the food they’re buying and how it was grown.

 

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