The Trump administration’s new labeling rules for genetically modified foods, going into effect this week, are provoking the ire of environmental groups who say the rules favor agriculture industry interests over environmental concerns about the rising use of toxic chemicals by farmers.
The Department of Agriculture is endorsing the “motto” of the American Farm Bureau and other farm industry groups that “the customer is always wrong,” said Scott Faber of the Environmental Working Group, just one of several environmental groups that had tried to push the administration to endorse a plan for a broader, more transparent national labeling system that favors consumer awareness.
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