“Independent” GMO Researcher Forced to Release Emails Showing $25K Grant from Monsanto

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13. In California, Monsanto and others succeeding in obfuscating and confusing voters about labeling

GMOs so that a ballot measure that would have required labeling of GMOs was defeated. They made people fear that such labeling would actually cause the price of food to go up.

They always try to hit voters with such false statements. The only cost would have been a total of $1 million statewide to regulate such labeling.

http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_37,_Mandatory_Labeling_of_Genetically_Engineered_Food_(2012)

The ballot measure was defeated by a very narrow vote of 51.5 to 48.5

If Proposition 37 had been approved, it would have:

Required labeling on raw or processed food offered for sale to consumers if the food is made from plants or animals with genetic material changed in specified ways.

Prohibited labeling or advertising such food as "natural."

Exempted from this requirement foods that are "certified organic; unintentionally produced with genetically engineered material; made from animals fed or injected with genetically engineered material but not genetically engineered themselves; processed with or containing only small amounts of genetically engineered ingredients; administered for treatment of medical conditions; sold for immediate consumption such as in a restaurant; or alcoholic beverages."