While USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack charged this week that the EU threatens global food security with its proposed opt-out policy regarding GM crop imports, the Obama administration itself is damaging that progress through its failure to act in one state's GMO labeling case.

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack charged this week that the EU threatens global food security with its proposed policy allowing member states to opt out of importing otherwise safe GM crops. The otherwise sound rationale is that damaging technological progress in agriculture most harms the world's poor. However, the Obama administration itself is damaging that progress through its failure to act in the Vermont GMO labeling case. With the simple writ of executive action, the p...