section_path: Domestic policy positions/Food and agriculture
section_name: Food and agriculture
paragraph_text: Food and agriculture
  
  Gabbard supports clear GMO labeling, voting in 2016 against a GMO-labeling bill she said was too weak. She has supported efforts to reduce routine antibiotic use in livestock and promote organic farming.
  
  Gabbard has expressed concern over farmer bankruptcies and declining farm incomes, particularly in the context of the China–United States trade war. In 2019, Gabbard stated that she supports a moratorium on the construction and expansion of concentrated animal feeding operations, sometimes referred to as factory farms.
  
  Gabbard supports clear GMO labeling, voting in 2016 against a GMO-labeling bill she said was too weak. She has supported efforts to reduce routine antibiotic use in livestock and promote organic farming.
  
  Gabbard has expressed concern over farmer bankruptcies and declining farm incomes, particularly in the context of the China–United States trade war. In 2019, Gabbard stated that she supports a moratorium on the construction and expansion of concentrated animal feeding operations, sometimes referred to as factory farms.