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- Title
A FIRST AMENDMENT FAILURE: SURRENDERING TO SCIENCE MISINFORMATION FOR BIOENGINEERED FOODS.
- Authors
Nelson, Casey J.
- Abstract
Gouernment-compelled commercial disclosures are not unfamiliar to consumers. Common labels include nutrition facts and ingredient information. The National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard, which took full force at the start of 2022, is of a different nature. The new law requires all manufacturers, all importers, and certain retailers of bioengineered foods to disclose on the food's packaging that it has been produced with bioengineering technology . Euen so, a large su)ath of thepublic is ignorant Of "bioengineering's" true meaning and bioengineering technology's true quality. The politically charged and fact-lacking debate on bioengineered foods renders this standard an impermissible coercion of speech in violation of the First Amendment. If stricter regulation of potentially harmful food products is truly desired, a more appropriate target for compelled disclosure is pesticide use. Using science communication principles and factual information on the outcomes of bioengineered foods as a backdrop, this Note argues against the labeling of bioengineered foods and for alternative pesticide disclosures.
- Subjects
GENETICALLY modified foods; PESTICIDES; FOOD labeling; DISCLOSURE; FOOD packaging; BIOENGINEERING; UNITED States. Constitution. 1st Amendment
- Publication
University of Colorado Law Review, 2024, Vol 95, Issue 3, p751
- ISSN
0041-9516
- Publication type
Article