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</span></font></div><div><h3 class="magcat-titlte entry-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; letter-spacing: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/gwyneth-paltrows-anti-vaxxer-ally-comes-under-fire-for-discredited-pseudo-scientific-claims-about-coronavirus/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; display: block; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="font-weight: normal;"> Paltrow’s anti-vaxxer ally comes under fire for ‘discredited pseudo-scientific claims’ about coronavirus</font></a><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/gwyneth-paltrows-anti-vaxxer-ally-comes-under-fire-for-discredited-pseudo-scientific-claims-about-coronavirus/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; display: block; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="font-weight: normal;">
</font></a><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/03/gwyneth-paltrows-anti-vaxxer-ally-comes-under-fire-for-discredited-pseudo-scientific-claims-about-coronavirus/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer; display: block; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4;" /><a href="https://www.alternet.org/author/alex-henderson/" title="Posts by Alex Henderson" class="author url fn" rel="author" style="text-align: right; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="font-weight: normal;">Alex Hen</font></a></h3></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></font></div></div><div>
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<div><p style="border: 0px none; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Droid Serif', serif; line-height: 21px; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mandatory labeling is the movement’s clarion call, the consumer’s so-called “right to know.” The right to know…what? It’s a thinly disguised effort to demonize a new technology by placing a scare label on packages that tells the consumer nothing about the nutritional make-up of a product or whether it was sustainably grown. It boils down to an attack on science and common sense, but is disguised as “consumer rights.”</p><p style="border: 0px none; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Droid Serif', serif; line-height: 21px; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255);">The year began with the movement regrouping after electoral defeats in Colorado and Oregon, where voters rejected mandatory GMO labels. A bill in Congress – HR 1599, the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act – advanced in the U.S. House much to the alarm of the anti-GMOers. Movement leaders, specifically Stonyfield Chairman Gary Hirshberg, the benefactor of Just Label It, ratcheted up their opposition to the bill. They nicknamed it “<a href="http://www.justlabelit.org/dark-act/" target="blank" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(22, 76, 157); text-decoration: none; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent;">The DARK Act</a>” and lobbied lawmakers throughout the spring and summer to vote against HR 1599.</p><p style="border: 0px none; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: 'Droid Serif', serif; line-height: 21px; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll rgb(255, 255, 255);">The House passed HR 1599 in July by a wide margin and earned support from several Congressional Black Caucus members concerned, rightly, that the labels would lead to higher food prices. In response to this, Hirshberg posted doctored photos of Black Caucus members wearing Darth Vader masks and calling them “<a href="https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/09/17/does-the-organic-led-anti-gmo-campaign-have-race-related-undertones/" target="blank" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(22, 76, 157); text-decoration: none; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent;">Death Stars</a>.” (One can only imagine the backlash if a Big Food/Ag company had done the same.) Hirshberg even enlisted “celebrity mom” <a href="https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/08/03/will-hollywood-anti-gmopro-labeling-activists-lena-dunham-and-gwyneth-paltrow-consider-science/" target="_blank" style="border: 0px none; margin: 0px; outline: none 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(22, 76, 157); text-decoration: none; background: none 0px 0px repeat scroll transparent;">Gwyneth Paltrow</a> to appear at a press conference on Capitol Hill where she urged lawmakers to defeat the bill in the Senate.</p></div><div></div></div>