GMO Sugar Beet Industry Contributes $55,000 to Defeat GMO Labeling Laws [1]

Natural Society, By: Christina Sarich, 01/31/2014

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Just in case you weren’t aware, genetically modified sugar beets are in just about every food imaginable. You’ll find it listed as [2] ‘sucrose’ (among other sneaky labels) in thousands of foods at your local grocery store. The national sugar beet industry (which switched to GMO seeds when the federal government warned [3] that if it didn’t it would face a sugar shortage) and its GM sugar beet crops have already contaminated nearby organic fields. A new ballot measure in southern Oregon has the sugar beet industry in a tizzy because it would ban the use of genetically modified organisms in Jackson County.

 

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