The recently enacted GMO labeling law may cause a bitter rift in one U.S. industry if USDA uses its discretion and determines that products containing sugar from a certain source must be labeled. Bitter over Labeling The recently enacted GMO labeling law may cause a bitter rift in the U.S. sugar industry. If USDA uses its discretion and determines that products containing sugar from GM sugar beets must be labeled, this could encourage growers and importers of sugar from sugarcane, which is not genetically modified, to start a marketing campaign against their beet brethren. After all, food marketers have been using the Frankenfood scare tactic to cannibalize sales from competitors for years. Even if it turns out that most American consumer...

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