In Colorado, anti-labeling forces have pumped nearly $10 million into the state to try to defeat a grassroots initiative with less than $1 million in funding. The corporations trying to kill Prop. 105 include just a handful of out-of-state, multinational pesticide and junk food companies pumping millions into Colorado to control the election include Monsanto, Pepsico, Kraft Foods, General Mills, Smuckers, Dow, Conagra, Welch’s, Pioneer/Dupont, and others that are hooked on the GMO treadmill and don’t want to get off.

These companies are more concerned with protecting their profits over consumers. In fact, this coalition has spent more than $100 million over the past three years to defeat state campaigns and to keep consumers in the dark about how their food is made when it comes to genetic engineering.

Colorado’s Proposition 105 calls for the mandatory labeling of foods containing ingredients from transgenic crops derived in the laboratory through recombinant DNA technology—a technology that splices genes from bacteria, viruses, or other foreign species into major food crops—pairings that would never occur in nature—to create genetically engineered crops that make their own toxic pesticides, or that can withstand ever increasing amounts of toxic, synthetic herbicides. The primary GMO crops include genetically engineered corn, soy, canola, cotton, and sugar beets, which make their way into just about all grocery products sold in the U.S.

According to a July 2013 New York Times survey, Americans overwhelmingly support GMO labeling, with 93-percent of respondents saying that foods containing genetically modified or GMO ingredients should be identified. According to a recent survey conducted by RBI Strategies in Denver, 71-percent of Coloradans favor GMO labeling.

In fact, more than 64 other countries, including the entire EU, China, Russia, Japan, Brazil, and elsewhere, require mandatory labeling of genetically engineered or GMO foods. Colorado joins more than two dozen other states, including Oregon, Arizona, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, in calling for GMO labeling legislation.

Will the David-esque grassroots initiative prevail? Monsanto, their cohorts, and a growing anti-GMO coalition will be watching with baited breath for very different reasons. It has been speculated that this initiative, as well as Oregon’s 92 ballot measure, will define the course of the movement. Please get out and vote Tuesday, November 4th and help make history!!

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Read more: http://www.cornucopia.org/2014/10/im-voting-yes-105-label-gmo-foods/