Uncounted Votes Sink Measure 92

Technically, we lost. By about 800 votes. A fraction of a percentage point.

But we’ll never really know. Because this week, a judge in Oregon ruled against a lawsuit filed this week by our YES on 92 Campaign. The suit would have required the state to count the 4600 votes that election officials threw out—because they said the signatures on the ballot envelopes didn’t match the signatures on the voters’ registration cards.

Monsanto and Big Food will claim victory.

What they won’t say is that it took a record-breaking $20.7 million of advertising, intended to misinform and confuse voters, for them to buy this “victory.”

On the very day the judge denied voters in Oregon the right to have their votes counted, the pesticide and junk food makers were buying up seats on Capitol Hill, to make the case that no state should be allowed to pass a law requiring mandatory labeling of GMOs.

They are doing everything in their power to hide the truth about the toxic food they are producing, and the poisons they are unleashing into our environment.

Just as we will continue to do everything in our power to expose their dirty, toxic secrets.

The fact is, they are losing. Vermont has passed a solid, enforceable GMO labeling law. Sales of organics continue to outpace sales of their GMO junk food. Companies like Coca-Cola and General Mills are struggling. Last week Hershey’s announced it will remove genetically engineered high fructose corn syrup from its brand-name products. The United Nations has declared that small farmers, not Monsanto, will feed the world.

Thank you to everyone who helped fight this battle in Oregon. Let the boycotts of those companies that continue to fund anti-labeling, pro-GMO campaigns, continue!

Read the official campaign statement

Read the lawsuit

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