Author: JUDSON PARKER
Source: Examiner.com
Publication Date: 31-Jul-12
Link: Monsanto and ‘Big 6
Stephan: Monsanto, in my view, is an evil corporation. Not the only one, but a real stand-out. They are doing everything in their power to kill the California proposition which, if voters affirm it, will compel the labelling of GMO foods. I support California proposition 37 and, to my California readers, I ask you to vote for it.
To learn more about the campaign to label genetically engineered foods in California, please visit http://www.carighttoknow.org
And try to avoid buying any product made by Monsanto and the five other corporations - BASF, Bayer, Dow, DuPont and Syngenta -- known as the 'Big Six.
With the California general election less than four months away, pesticide manufacturers gave more than $750,000 [Update: this number has increased to $1.71 million as of 8/1/2012] to efforts to stop labeling of genetically engineered food, according to filings released by the state’s Secretary of State late today.
‘Much of the rest of the world – including Japan, Australia, the European Union and China – already requires genetically engineered foods to be clearly labeled. But in the U.S., pesticide corporations like Monsanto continue to enjoy unfettered and unlabeled access to the market, and a consumer population that is left largely in the dark,
