TheDailySheeple October 27 2013
More than half of the states in this country are currently fighting to mandate GMO labeling; if voters say yes to Initiative 522, Washington could be the first in the nation to force companies to give consumers some sort of clue if what they are eating has been genetically modified.
Now Bloomberg is reporting that Monsanto and DuPont, two of the nation’s largest producers of GMO seeds in the U.S. have given a combined $8.7 million towards I-522′s defeat — nearly half of the $18.1 million raised against the labeling initiative so far.
This should come as no surprise, considering the two biotech giants also happened to be the two biggest contributors toward the defeat of California’s similar prop 37 labeling initiative last year. Five million is more than Monsanto has spent lobbying the government thus far this year, which is about $3 million (although the year is not over yet).
Since tossing their millions into the anti-labeling pot, I-522′s 45% lead in the polls has dropped dramatically to a depressing 4%.
In addition, Natural News is reporting a whole host of major food labels have financially joined the fight against their customers’ basic right to know what’s in their food, including:
- Bimbo Bakeries USA
- Bumble Bee Foods, LLC
- Campbell Soup Co.
- Cargill Inc.
- The Clorox Co. (owner of Burt’s Bees brand)
- The Coca-Cola Co. (owner of Odwalla)
- ConAgra Foods
- Dean Foods Co. (owner of Horizon milk)
- Del Monte Foods Co.
- General Mills, Inc. (owned of Larabar)
- The Hershey Co.
- The Hillshire Brands Co.
- Hormel Foods Corp.
- The J.M. Smucker Co.
- Kellogg Co. (owner of Pop-Tarts)
- Land O’Lakes, Inc.
- Mondelez Global, LLC. (formerly Kraft Foods)
- Nestle USA, Inc.
- Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
- PepsiCo, Inc. (owner of Naked Juice)
- Sunny Delight Beverages Co.
- Welch Foods, Inc. (click here for complete list to boycott)