MONSANTO SPENDS MILLIONS TO DEFEAT STATE'S GMO LABELING EFFORT (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Sunday, October 05, 2014, 01:14

Colorado’s Proposition 105, like previous state efforts to label GMOs, faces well-funded corporate opposition

Monsanto has poured $4.7 million into the campaign to defeat an initiative to label genetically modified food in Colorado.

The funds went to the No on 105 Coalition, which hopes it can beat Proposition 105, one of four statewide ballot measures Colorado voters will see on their November ballots. If passed, the measure would require most food made with genetically modified material (GMOs) to be labeled “Produced With Genetic Engineering” starting July 1, 2016.

The GMO-labeling effort is backed by Right to Know Colorado, which says its “movement is built on the foundation that we have the basic right to know what is in our food and what we are feeding our families.”

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