35 companies SECRETLY donating money to fight GMO labeling that's on the ballot Nov. 5th in Washington State!

GMO Labeling Has Its Day In Court

Story at-a-glance

• On November 5, Washington State will cast their votes for the people's initiative 522, "The People's Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act." Your support is urgently needed
• Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed suit against the GMA in Thurston County Superior Court on behalf of the State of Washington, alleging the association violated the state’s campaign disclosure laws
• Ferguson alleges the GMA illegally collected and spent more than $7 million on the No On Initiative 522 campaign, while hiding the identity of its contributors in order to shield them from consumer backlash
• The lawsuit forced GMA to establish a political committee, aptly named Grocery Manufacturers Association Against I-522. A list of the financial donors has now been disclosed to the Public Disclosure Commission
• Biotech are now trying to find a way to label that will still permit them to exist and make a profit. Pushing for federal labeling is one part of the plan to dilute the value of the label

As of this writing, the list of donors and amount of each company’s donation submitted to the Public Disclosure Commission includes the following, which totals up to $7,222,500^{6, 7}. Looks like Pepsi, Coke, and Nestle are the top funders trying to hide their identity. Quite the triangle of authority of junk food producers, and purveyors of chronic disease:

Company	Amount donated	Company	Amount donated
Abbott Nutrition	127,459	Bimbo Bakeries USA	94,693
Campbell Soup Co	265,140	Bruce Foods Corp	3,006
Cargill Inc	98,601	Bumble Bee Foods	36,073
Coca-Cola	1,047,332	Bunge North America	94,993
ConAgra Foods	285,281	Clement Pappas & Co. Inc	21,043
Dean Foods	120,245	Clorox Company	12,024
Bush Brothers & Co	16,233	Flowers Foods	141,288
Del Monte Foods	86,576	Hormel Foods	52,908
General Mills	598,819	J.M. Smucker Co	241,091
Hershey	248,305	Knouse Foods	14,429
Hillshire Brands	97,398	Welch Foods	28,859
Kellogg	221,852	Land O'Lakes	99,803
Moody Dunbar	1,804	McCormick & Co	102,208
Nestle USA	1,052,743	Mondelez Global	144,895
Ocean Spray, Cranberries, Inc	55,313	Pinnacle Foods Group	120,846
PepsiCo	1,620,899	Rich Products Corp	24,049
Sunny Delight Beverages Co	21,043	Shearer's Foods, Inc	25,251