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Too costly? Really!? Consumers Union Study GMO FOOD LABELING? RIGHT-TO-KNOW COST IS  $2.43  PER  PERSON A YEAR Devon G. Peña | Seattle, WA | October 4, 2014 According to a new analysis commissioned by Consumers Union (CU) the median cost to consumers of state laws requiring labeling of genetically engineered food is $2.30 per person annually. The report is available online now here .  The CU study – which includes a comprehensive annotated bibliography of studies on the economics of labeling – presents a major scientific rebuke to claims being made by the biotechnology industry. The corporate opponents of GMO labeling, including major chain grocers, have repeatedly misled the public by claiming labeling requirements will significantly increase consumer costs by hundreds and perhaps even thousands of dollars a year.   There is no reliable study proving these claims and the research most often cited by the promoters of GMO foods is produced by the agro-biotech an...

Moderator’s Note: Our colleague Miguel Robles of the Biosafety Alliance provided access to a unique set of documents recently released and formerly submitted to the President of Mexico by various scientists. The letters all warn of the environmental and public health dangers posed by transgenic or GMO maize. I am posting the first of these documents: Our exclusive translation of a letter released over the weekend by our colleagues at Acción Colectiva in Mexico. The 8-page (plus references) letter was prepared by Dr. David Schubert, considered one of the foremost immunologists at the Salk Institute. It is addressed to Lic. Enrique Peña Nieto
, President of Mexico, and the heads of the Mexican Environmental Protection and Agriculture ministries. The letter was submitted last October 2013 as part of the evidence presented at trial before the federal judge that ruled to suspend GMO corn plantings in Mexico . Schubert’s letter mentions six major problems posed by the cultivation and cons...