Environment News Service: The ballot measure to require labeling of genetically modified foods in Washington State, Initiative 522, was defeated Tuesday by a record spending campaign by America's food manufacturing giants and agribusiness corporations, who financed a deluge of TV ads appearing just before election day.
Pamela Bailey, president and CEO of the Grocery Manufacturers Association which backed the "No" vote, said her organization opposes individual state efforts to impose labeling of products made with GMO technology....