Full article at the Burlington Free Press
Terri Hallenbeck, Free Press Staff Writer | April 27, 2014
[…] Opposition to GMOs in Vermont dates back to the earliest days of the process, which began producing crops in the 1990s. In 2003, 37 Vermont towns passed resolutions at town meeting that demanded the labeling of genetically modified foods.
The next year, lawmakers passed a first-in the-nation bill requiring that GMO seeds be labeled – a law that apparently has never been enforced. Amy Shollenberger, a lobbyist hired by the Vermont Right to Know Coalition who has been working on GMO issues for more than a decade, noted that the 2004 bill passed the Legislature 10 years to the day from when the Senate took its vote this month on the food-labeling bill. […]