# Meet Bernie Sanders

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-bernie-sanders/745207>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [February 5, 2016, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-bernie-sanders/745207 "2016-02-05T04:32:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2016, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-bernie-sanders/745207/24 "2016-03-08T16:51:40Z")

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> [@wolfpup](#):
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> Bernie supports allowing states to require labels on foods containing “genetically modified organisms” (GMOs) based on the consumer’s right-to-know, but does not believe that GMOs are necessarily bad.  
> [http://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-agriculture/](http://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-agriculture/)
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> That doesn’t sound ignorant or anti-GMO to me.

What is the point behind labeling GMO if there is nothing bad about GMO?

Why not simply allow non-GMO foods to label themselves as non-GMO?

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