Green Party Backs Clone Label Bill

Green Party press release:

Green Party [of California] environmental specialists [Monday] voiced support for legislation to mandate clear labels on any food derived from a cloned animal or its offspring, and said the bill is in the "public interest" and necessary to protect consumers from "potentially dangerous" food products.

Senate Bill 63, authored by State Senator Carole Migden, D-Marin/San Francisco, [blogged here] was approved in the Senate Health Committee Wednesday.

"The federal government continues to make it difficult for citizens to know what they are putting in their bodies. First, they attacked Proposition 65 that requires warning labels on products known to contain hazardous ingredients, then fought local governments from controlling Genetically Engineered Agriculture and now they want to allow growers to hide the fact that their animals were cloned," said Wes Rolley, of the Green Party of United States Eco-Action Committee.