$34.4 Million Can’t Seem To Buy Prop 37 Opponents Like Monsanto and Big Food Their Own Facts

Zack Kaldveer
Alternet
October 4, 2012

Apparently $34.4 million in pesticide and junk food money can’t buy the opponents of Proposition 37 their own set of facts.

Case in point: A new L.A. Times poll shows Prop 37 winning by more than a 2-to-1 margin among registered California voters. And, according to the recent Pepperdine poll the opposition’s support actually dropped four points over the past two weeks.

So while their treasure trove of special interest money can pay for an endless supply of tired, discredited talking points , it can’t seem to convince consumers we don’t deserve to know what’s in the food we eat.

It’s not hard to understand why. The companies bankrolling the opposition campaign – including pesticide giants Monsanto ($7.2 million) and Dupont ($4.9 million) – will say and spend anything to prevent the kind of transparency that labeling of genetically modified foods (GMO’s) would provide. And without transparency there can be no accountability.

Here ARE a few facts: A growing body of research links GMO foods to potential health risks , increased pesticide use , biodiversity loss , the emergence of “super bugs ” and “ super weeds ” and the unintentional contamination of conventional crops.

What Prop 37 will do is add a line of ink to a label — as is currently required for 3,000 other ingredients — so consumers know which products have been altered in a laboratory. That’s why the vast majority of Californians support this common-sense measure, and it’s why 50 other countries already require that GMOs be labeled.

But that’s not all : This summer, Monsanto began selling its first GMO sweet corn product at Walmart . The sweet corn is engineered to withstand the herbicide Roundup and also contains an insecticide (Bt toxin) within the cells of the corn.

A d v e r t i s e m e n t

Are your children eating Monsanto’s latest concoction? You won’t know because we don’t require labeling. In response to Walmart’s decision to undermine the will of its customers , the Yes on 37 campaign released a new ad highlighting the fact that California children are eating unlabeled GMO sweet corn without their parents knowing it.

Full story here.

This article was posted: Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 8:26 am

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