A product labeled with "Non-GMO" is sold at the Lassens Natural Foods & Vitamins store in Los Feliz district of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Genetically Modified Food
California Proposition 37 would require most genetically modified food — “food sold to consumers made from plants or animals with genetic material changed in specified ways” — to be labeled, and would prohibit that food from being marketed as “natural.” A Chicago-based alternative medicine physician, Dr. Joseph Mercola, has spent over $1 million in support of the proposition, while several chemical companies have each spent millions opposing the proposition. Monsanto, the multinational biotechnoloy company best known for manufacturing the herbicide “Roundup” and the leading producer of genetically engineered seed, has spent over $7 million in opposition.
