Prior to the Senate and House passing a mandatory labeling law that pre-empts the Vermont GMO labeling law, an editorial in the Wall Street Journal said that a sticker on genetically modified groceries may debunk irrational fears. The authors, economists Rich Sexton of UC Davis and Steven Sexton of Dukesay that with the recent release of another exhaustive report by the National Academies of Sciences attesting to the safety of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, "it is time for the food industry and advocates of genetically engineered crops to stand up for their products and put a label on them....This could be the best way to make consumers confront their irrational fears, to stamp out public ignorance and to save an important technology..."