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Democrats Block Amendment To Require Informing People If They’re Eating Bugs
Minnesota Senate Democrats rejected an amendment that would have required foods containing insects to be labeled.
Shocker.
The moves comes after the Senate this week passed an omnibus agriculture policy bill called S.F. 4225.
But before the bill was passed, Sen. Torrey Westrom (R-Alexandria) introduced an amendment that would require food to be properly labeled if it contains either insect products or artificial “cell-cultured” food like lab-grown meat.
Westrom said, “this just sets forth that if there’s bugs in your food for protein, cricket flour, whatever it is, it needs to be labeled. The consumers need to know. If your meat is cell-cultured and grown in a petri dish, you also need to know. Consumers should have that knowledge as they shop in the stores.”
Republican colleague Sen. Jim Abeler echoed Westrom’s remarks, calling the amendment a “no-brainer.”
“Let’s tell people what’s in their food that some people don’t even consider to be food,” he said. “Just because there’s no money in the bill doesn’t mean we can’t establish a policy.”
But the bill’s author Sen. Aric Putnam, (D-St. Cloud), shot down the proposal, claiming that although “consumers should know what they are consuming”, the issue of labeling insect parts in products was a “future problem” that didn’t need to be addressed yet...
Westrom’s amendment was ultimately defeated in a 33-34 vote.
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