Chemical Industry Spent Almost $10 Million...

Chemical Industry Spent Almost $10 Million Against GMO Labeling

Aviva Shen, News Report: â€œBesides the chemical industry, companies including Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestle USA, General Mills and ConAgra are pouring money into defeating the labeling requirement. If California passes the measure, these companiesâ€™ profits could suffer from a warning label driving consumers away. Proposition 37 could also take the GMO-labeling movement national, which has so far stalled in 20 states in spite of support from 91 percent of Americans.â€

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ricochet .. Aug 18, 2012, 8:24am UTC

Agribusiness defeated a similar measure in Washington state a little over a decade ago. They mounted a PR campaign that convinced voters that labels would add prohibitive costs to their food bill. But you have to wonder, how much it costs to print the words, "Genetically Modified Product," on the label. Opposing that simply means that "buyer beware" mantra of the "free markets" is literally taken off the table.

ricochet .. Aug 18, 2012, 8:29am UTC

Of course, cloned food will be added to "markets" while the public remains completely unaware, if it hasn't already started to happen:

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2008-03-04/states-move-to-label-cloned-foodbusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice

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Chemical Industry Spent Almost $10 Million Against GMO Labeling

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