Baking industry pressure leads to passage of GMO legislation
The American Bakers Association (ABA) is grateful for the engagement of its members that ensured congressional action was taken to preempt Vermont’s GMO labeling requirement.
“Members of the baking industry deserve a great deal of credit for their tireless work in pushing this bill across the finish line. Thanks to nearly 5,000 emails, phone calls, and face-to-face meetings on Capitol Hill, we were able to show our elected officials that a state-by-state patchwork of labeling requirements would dismantle our industry’s finely tuned distribution network, and inaction was not an option,” said Fred Penny, ABA Chairman and President of Bimbo Bakeries USA.