Shelf space at supermarkets is one of the most valuable and therefore contested forms of real estate square footage in the world. That's one reason why food processers, united in the US as the Grocery Manufacturers Association, sponsor anti-democratic bills like the one that passed 283-139 in the US House to override state and local food-label laws.

It seems like whenever citizens and consumers express desires that go against the will of supermarkets and agribusiness, they respond with calls for "science-based" regulation, as if a) the GMA suddenly represents Science, and b) citizenry and consumers are the last to know what is good for them.

Their ultimate goal? Uniformity for food. Sounds awful. Who comes up with this stuff?