GMO fight dwarfed by more out-of-state $$

Berit Anderson

Berit Anderson Jul 18, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>GMO fight dwarfed by more out-of-state $$ </h1>
                <h2><p>On Tuesday, we wrote about Monsanto's whopping $4.5 million donation to Washington's No on 522 anti-GMO labeling campaign. Little did we know that that same day Dupont Pioneer — not-so-incidentally, the largest U.S. producer of hybrid seeds for agriculture — was doling out another $3.2</p></h2>
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            <p>On Tuesday, we wrote about Monsanto's whopping $4.5 million donation to Washington's No on 522 anti-GMO labeling campaign. Little did we know that that same day Dupont Pioneer — not-so-incidentally, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont_Pioneer?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">the largest U.S. producer of hybrid seeds for agriculture</a> — <a href="http://www.pdc.wa.gov/MvcQuerySystem/CommitteeData/contributions?param=Tk81MjIgIDUwNw%3D%3D%3D%3D&year=2013&type=initiative&ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">was doling out another $3.2 million for the cause</a> (it wasn't publicly reported until yesterday). For those not keeping score, that puts the No on 522 fundraising total at more than $11 million to pro-labelers' $3.5 million.Whether or not you'd like to know when you're eating GMOs, it's worth noting that the anti-labeling campaign has only five donors, all from out of state and financially tied to the defeat of the bill — Monsanto, Dupont, Dow, Bayer and the Grocery Manufacturers Association. The Yes campaign on the other hand has a long list of populist supporters bolstered by a few larger donations from natural food groups. Put that in your genetically modified corncob pipe and smoke it.  —B.A.</p>
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On Tuesday, we wrote about Monsanto's whopping $4.5 million donation to Washington's No on 522 anti-GMO labeling campaign. Little did we know that that same day Dupont Pioneer — not-so-incidentally, the largest U.S. producer of hybrid seeds for agriculture — was doling out another $3.2 million for the cause (it wasn't publicly reported until yesterday). For those not keeping score, that puts the No on 522 fundraising total at more than $11 million to pro-labelers' $3.5 million.Whether or not you'd like to know when you're eating GMOs, it's worth noting that the anti-labeling campaign has only five donors, all from out of state and financially tied to the defeat of the bill — Monsanto, Dupont, Dow, Bayer and the Grocery Manufacturers Association. The Yes campaign on the other hand has a long list of populist supporters bolstered by a few larger donations from natural food groups. Put that in your genetically modified corncob pipe and smoke it. —B.A.

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By Berit Anderson

Berit Anderson was Managing Editor at Crosscut, following tech, culture, media and politics. She founded Crosscut's Community Idea Lab.   Previously community manager of the Tribune Company’