Companies donate $690K to oppose GMO labeling


Seven major food companies donated a total of $690,000 to a campaign against Measure 92, which would require genetically engineered food to be labeled in Oregon.

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Seven major food companies donated a total of $690,000 to a campaign against Measure 92, which would require genetically engineered food to be labeled in Oregon.

That brings the total raised by the campaign against Measure 92 to more than $1 million.

The donations came from companies such as Pepsi, Hershey and Bumble Bee Foods — which all worked to stop a similar ballot measure in Washington in 2012.

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