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: 

Widespread public suspicion of GM crops has not stopped their spread:

According to the Department of Agriculture, 90 percent of the corn and

cotton and 93 percent of the soybeans planted in the U.S. last year were

genetically modified. These are commodity crops used mostly for animal

feed and fuel ethanol, but they also provide the corn syrup in bottled

beverages and the soy lecithin in chocolate bars. And with the public

still leery of the technology, it was perhaps inevitable that after a

stretch of relative quiet the GMO wars would heat up again. The latest

front is over food labeling: In the past two years, ballot initiatives

that would have mandated labeling narrowly lost in Washington State and

California; in May, Vermont’s governor signed a bill into law.
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