Details are finally trickling out about the meetings at USDA in which Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack tried to help industry reach a peaceful accord with GMO labeling advocates. Tara Cook-Littman, founder of GMO-Free Connecticut, says she and four other advocates rejected an industry proposal to use electronic labeling and instead “stood strong and united for mandatory, on package GMO labeling.”

 

“We are thankful to Secretary Vilsack for the time he spent with us, but in the end, there was not enough common ground to emerge from that room with a GMO Labeling proposal agreed upon by leaders from both camps,” Cook-Littman wrote in a blog post on the website of Citizens for GMO Labeling. Food, agriculture and biotech groups have continued to stay largely quiet about the discussions.

 

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