Sponsors of Anti-Labeling GMO Campaign

Remember the X-files series and the agents Mulder & Scully? Their leitmotif was “we have the right to know”. This is exactly what the human race is entitled to when it comes to GMO foods. For that reason, we should all actively take part in the movement against GMOs. It can easily turn out to be the most important fight of our lives.   

Maybe you didn’t know that from 2012 until 2014 in four occasions ballot measures/props (under No. 37, 92, 105 and 522) were proposed in the US federal states of California, Washington, Oregon, and Colorado in order to get labeling on foods containing genetically modified organisms. Guess what happened? They were all rejected. As expected, the most severe GMO labeling opponents were the exact same companies that used sponsorship and donations to make the highest money contributions in GMO labeling campaign.

A simple question arises here all by itself: “If something is safe, why not label it with a warning”? Or ask even a better one: “If something is safe, why should you label it with a warning”? We’ve managed to get our hands on the list of sponsors of the above mentioned US Anti-Labeling GMO Campaigns. Take a peek at the list of corporations that stand behind some of the most frequently used GMO grown foods – the “Big Five”.

                     **GMA member donations included in list

Sponsors of Anti-Labeling GMO Campaign
No.	Donor	No On 37	No on 522	No on 92	No on 105
1	Monsanto Co.	$8,112,867	$5,374,411	$5,958,750	$4,755,878
2	Dupont	$5,400,000	$3,880,159	$4,928,150	$3,000,000
3	PepsiCo	$2,485,400	$2,352,966	$2,350,000	$1,650,000
4	Grocery Manufacturers Association	$2,002,000	$11,000,000**	$169,190	$106,600
5	Kraft Foods	$2,000,500	-	$870,000	$1,030,000
6	BASF Plant Science	$2,000,000	$500,000	-	-
7	Bayer CropScience	$2,000,000	$591,654	-	-
8	DOW Agrosciences	$2,000,000	$591,654	$1,157,150	$306,500
9	Syngenta Corporation	$2,000,000	-	-	-
10	Coca-Cola North America	$1,690,500	$1,520,351	$1,170,000	$1,108,000
11	Nestle USA	$1,461,600	$1,528,206	-	-
12	General Mills	$1,230,300	$869,271	$695,000	$820,000
13	ConAgra Foods	$1,176,700	$828,251	$350,000	$250,000
14	Kellogg's Company	$790,700	$322,050	$500,000	250,000
15	Smithfield Foods	$683,900	-	-	$250,000
16	Delmonte Foods	$674,100	$125,677	-	-
17	Campbell Soup Company	$598,000	$384,888	-	-
18	Smucker Company	$555,000	$349,978	$295,000	$345,000
19	Hershey Company	$518,900	$360,450	$320,000	$380,000
20	Biotechnology Industry Organization	$502,000	-	11,200	$108,000
21	Heinz Company	$500,000	-	-	-
22	Mars Inc.	$498,350	-	-	-
23	Hormel Foods	$467,900	$76,803	$85,000	85,000
24	Unilever	$467,100	-	-	-
25	Bimbo Bakeries	$422,900	$137,460	$230,000	270,000
26	Bumble Bee Foods	$420,600	$52,365	$45,000	$50,000
27	Ocean Spray Cranberries	$409,100	$80,295	$35,000	80,000
28	Council for Biotechnology Information	$375,000	-	$12,827	-
29	Sara Lee Corporation	$343,600	-	-	-
30	Abbott Nutrition	$334,500	$185,025	$160,000	$190,000
31	Pinnacle Foods Group	$266,100	$175,425	-	-
32	Dean Foods	$253,950	$174,553	-	-
33	Cargill	$250,000	$143,133	$111,000	$135,000
34	Bunge North America	$248,600	$137,896	-	-
35	Rich Products Corporation	$248,300	$34,911	$30,000	-
36	McCormick & Company	$248,200	$148,369	$130,000	-
37	Flowers Foods	$182,100	$205,099	-	$250,000
38	Mondelez International	$181,000	$210,336	$720,000	-
39	Dole Packaged Foods	$175,000	-	-	-
40	Knouse Foods	$167,600	$20,946	$20,000	$25,000
41	Welch Foods	$167,000	$41,893	$30,000	$35,000
42	Land O'Lakes	$153,300	$144,878	$760,000	$900,000
43	Sunny Delight Beverages	$139,700	$30,547	$25,000	$25,000
44	Wrigley Jr. Company	$123,350	-	-	-
45	Tree Top Inc.	$110,600	-	-	-
46	Clement Pappas & Co.	$100,000	$30,547	-	-
47	Hilshire Brands Company	$85,900	$282,775	-	-
48	Hero North America	$80,800	-	-	-
49	Mead Johnson Nutrition Company	$80,000	-	$50,000	$50,000
50	Faribault Foods	$76,000	-	-	-
51	Solae Inc.	$62,500	-	-	-
52	Goya Foods	$56,700	-	-	-
53	McCain Foods USA	$53,400	-	-	-
54	Godiva Chocolatier	$42,700	-	-	-
55	B&G Foods	$40,000	-	-	-
56	Clorox Company	$39,700	$17,455	-	-
57	Bruce Foods	$38,500	$4,364	-	-
58	C.H. Guenther & Son	$24,700	-	-	-
59	Morton Salt	$21,400	-	-	-
60	Reily Foods Company	$18,400	-	-	-
61	Inventure Foods	$15,600	-	-	-
62	Hirzel Canning Company	$15,000	-	-	-
63	Idahoan Foods	$10,000	-	-	-
64	Sargento Foods	$10,000	-	-	-
65	Snack Foods Association	$10,000	-	-	-
66	Shearer's Foods	-	$36,656	$30,000	$35,000
67	Niagara Bottling	-	-	-	$10,000
68	Michael Foods	-	-	$30,000	-