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Food Lobby’s ‘Highest Priority’ Is Fighting GMO Labeling in California
July 31st, 2012
The Cornucopia Institute
Appetite for Profit
By Michele Simon


Food Lobby?s ?Highest Priority? Is Fighting GMO Labeling in California | Cornucopia Institute
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In case you had any doubt that California’s Prop 37—which would require labeling of food containing genetically-modified organisms (GMOs)—is a significant threat to industry, a top food lobby has now made it perfectly clear.

In a recent speech to the American Soybean Association (most soy grown in the U.S. is genetically modified), Grocery Manufacturers Association President Pamela Bailey said that defeating the initiative “is the single-highest priority for GMA this year.”

You may not know the Grocery Manufacturers Association, but its members represent the nation’s largest food makers—those with the most at stake in...

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So which companies are paying big bucks to fight GMO labeling?
Posted by Melissa Melton
August 2, 2012 at 5:00pm

So which companies are paying big bucks to fight GMO labeling? - 12160
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■Pepsi and Coca-Cola (professional rivals coming together for one cause, like The Avengers of Frankenfood)
■Nestle
■Kellogg
■Hormel
■Bimbo
■General Mills
■ConAgra, the company behind Gulden’s, Jiffy Pop, Swiss Miss, and dozens more
■Smucker’s has given money as well, which very much contradicts their ad campaign about what simple, rural farm folk who just love fruit they are.
Some of these names may surprise you, most likely don’t, but the point is these companies are using top-dollar financial influence to cloud any attempt at transparency with...