WINNIPEG -- Manitoba's largest farm lobby group wants MP's to vote against a bill requiring labelling for genetically modified foods.

Don Dewar, of Keystone Agricultural Producers, says the bill does nothing to improve the safety of Canada's food supply.

He says support for the legislation would result in a number of things, including a 10 per cent price increase for Canadian produced and processed food.

He also says it will cause undue hurt to Canadian farmers, and a bill that doesn't serve the interests of consumers or farmers.

Dewar says Canada's food supply is already one of the safest in the world and the bill would do nothing to change that.

He adds if genetically modified foods are not safe they should be taken off the market.

Dewar says if they contain allergens they have to be labelled by existing law.

Keystone supports voluntary labelling for genetically modified foods.

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