Organic Consumers Fund Gives Another $100,000 to GMO Measure

Campaign likely to battle Monsanto, profiled in current Bloomberg Businesweek

A group called the Organic Consumers Fund has made a second $100,000 contribution to Oregon GMO Right to Know, the political action committee behind a proposed November ballot measure seeking to label genetically modified organisms.  

That contribution brings GMO Right to Know's total raised this year to $1.3 million.

Meanwhile the current issue of Bloomberg Businessweek takes a deep dive into the company that is likely to lead the opposition to GMO labeling: Monsanto. In an article tilted "Inside Monsanto, America's Third-Most-Hated Company," reporter Drake Bennett  examines the agribusiness giant's operation and notes the political threat to the company's enormous investment in genetically modified foods: 

ban on the use of GMO
most expensive ballot measure fight in Oregon history

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