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“If GMO’s are so wonderful and harmless then why is so much money being spent on opposing labeling laws?”  Admin

Food and biotechnology companies opposed to mandatory labeling of foods that contain genetically modified food ingredients have disclosed expenditures of $63.6 million in 2014 to lobby for legislation that made reference to GMO labeling.

This analysis updates a September 2014 EWG report that found $28.3 million in anti-GMO-labeling lobbying expenditures in the first two quarters of 2014.

Anti-labeling lobbying expenditures for 2014 were almost three times what these companies and groups spent in 2013. Over 2013 and 2014, companies and groups opposed to GMO labeling disclosed a total of $86.9 million in lobbying expenditures according to forms filed with the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Secretary of the U.S. Senate. Forms cited GMO labeling as well as other policy issues. (EWG excluded all lobbying disclosure forms that made no reference to labeling.)

The burst of anti-label lobbying is aimed in part to muster Congressional support for legislation sponsored by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) that would block state-level GMO labeling efforts, impede moves by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to require GMO labeling nationwide and codify the current, failed voluntary labeling system.

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