Rob Andrews: “the rationale of the underlying bill, with which I disagree, but the rationale of the underlying bill is that educated…”

“the rationale of the underlying bill, with which I disagree, but the rationale of the underlying bill is that educated and knowing consumers who make a choice as to what they eat are responsible for the consequences of what they eat. So that if someone eats a lot of food that is high in saturated fat and suffers heart disease or other health-related problems as a result, that they are responsible for that result, and it should not be the person who sold them the food. Frankly, I think that the judicial system of the country is reaching the same answer and does not need our interference to push them toward that answer, but that is the underlying premise of the bill. Informed consumer choice trumps litigation. My amendment is designed to provide an informed consumer choice, and here is what it says. It says that if a seller of food is selling genetically-altered food, it can only receive the immunity granted by this bill if the seller of the genetically-altered food fully discloses to the person buying and eating the food the fact that it has been genetically-altered and the nature of the genetic alteration that took place.”