Who funds the grassroots anti-GMO movement?

Michelle Miller | September 15, 2016 | Genetic Literacy Project

There is a lot of misinformation about GMOs online. But why is that? Where is this info coming from?

Well, the answer is quite clear once you do a little digging, and there is a lot of money to be made off of consumer fear. Sometimes when I defend GMOs online, people accuse me of being paid by Monsanto. Well, I’m a farmer. They don’t pay us, we pay them. And that argument is silly because we have hundreds of seed companies to choose from, and they’re not even the biggest. To think that they are the only company that cares about profits is just plain naive. The more than $39 billion organic industry cares about profits! Food companies care about profits! And frankly, they’ll do whatever it takes to make a buck.......The people in this image are paid millions of dollars by organic and natural companies. “March against Monsanto” works hand-in-glove with the Organic Consumers Association, a vaccine denying anti-GMO activist group and one of the leading funders of anti-GMO activist groups. If March Against Monsanto is just a simple grassroots organization, how can they afford expensive billboards in New York City? Moms Across America has “go organic” billboards all across the country. How can they afford this? These people have an agenda, and the organic food industry actually spends $2.5 billion annually through 330 different organizations leading with fear to sell their products. Fear sells and marketers know it.......To Read More.....