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# Who is funding the anti-GMO labeling side in Colorado?
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/anti-gmo_labeling_side_in_colorado_1023140918/
- Published: 2014-10-23T21:17:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T18:44:20.000Z
- Description: Ten corporations including Monsanto, DuPont, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola supplied more than $13 million of the $14.3 million spent to defeat Colorado's Proposition 105 on GMO labeling. The Right to Know Colorado campaign says it has raised under $1 million, mostly in small gifts.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Politics, #vivvo-import

**Who is funding the anti-GMO labeling side in Colorado?**

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f5/c2/f5c28c07-f2c7-440d-8161-125a09d9bc91/content/images/2026/08/27dfd24fbe110646dbaa3cc910fb789b075541c5.jpg)Seeking to crush a groundswell movement in America to label genetically modified foods, a small group of multi-billion-dollar pesticide, biotech and Big Food corporations have poured *$14 million* into Colorado to try to defeat Proposition 105, a grassroots voter initiative to label GMO foods.

**Who Are these Corporations Trying to Buy Our Elections and Keep Americans in the Dark about GMOs?**

Please see a more complete list below, however, *just 10 corporations*, including Monsanto, DuPont, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Kraft, General Mills, Hershey, J.M. Smucker, Dow and Kellogg, are responsible for more than $13 million of the $14.3 million total contributed to try to defeat the Colorado GMO labeling bill.

Also of note among the anti-labeling donors are Abbot Nutrition and Mead Johnson, corporations that make nutritional formulas *for infants and the elderly* – companies that do not want mandatory GMO labeling on their packaging.

**Underdog Colorado Campaign Scares Big Food and Industrial Agriculture**

In contrast, the underdog Right to Know Colorado campaign has raised less than $1 million in cash and pledges, mostly through [small business donations](http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=70545129&msgid=1881979&act=PEAS&c=607027&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.righttoknowcolorado.org%2Fdonors&ref=foodconsumer.org) along with hundreds of $5, $10, and $25 contributions to the Yes on 105 campaign from primarily Colorado citizens. Yet, we feel strongly that we can win.

Please don't let these corporations buy our elections to protect profits over people.

Please Help Us Label GMOs in Colorado...for ALL Americans.

Make a Donation. Make an Impact.

  
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| Top Donors Seeking to Defeat Colorado's Proposition 105 to Label GMOs\* Monsanto, $4.7 million DuPont/Pioneer, $3.04 million Pepsico, $1.65 million Coca-Cola, $1.1 million Kraft Foods, $1.03 million General Mills, $820,000 The Hershey Co., $380,000 J.M. Smucker Co., $345,000 Dow Agrosciences, a Dow Chemical Company, $300,000 Kellogg Co., $250,000 Conagra Foods, $250,000 Flowers Food Inc., $250,000 Smithfield Foods, $200,000 Abbot Nutrition, $190,000 Cargill Inc., $135,000 Grocery Manufacturer's Association, $101,400 Hormel Foods, $85,000 Ocean Spray Cranberries, $80,000 Bumble Bee Foods, $50,000 Mead Johnson, $50,000 Shearer's Foods, $35,000 Welch's, $35,000 Knouse Foods, $25,000 Sunny Delight Beverage Co., $25,000 Biotechnology Industry Organization, $14,600 Niagara Bottling, $10,000 ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f5/c2/f5c28c07-f2c7-440d-8161-125a09d9bc91/content/images/2026/08/6c8d0c81d99f8852f4ecec2b56ea764deb718f51.jpg) \* [Colorado Secretary of State](http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=70545129&msgid=1881979&act=PEAS&c=607027&destination=http%3A%2F%2Ftracer.sos.colorado.gov%2FPublicSite%2FSearchPages%2FCommitteeDetail.aspx%3FOrgID%3D26735&ref=foodconsumer.org) Elections Division Reporting, as of October 22, 2014 |
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| Support Yes on 105 in Colorado and join the growing number of people calling for GMO labeling! Visit Our Donors [Here](http://www.righttoknowcolorado.org/donors?ref=foodconsumer.org) \| Visit Our Endorsers [Here](http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=70545129&msgid=1881979&act=PEAS&c=607027&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.righttoknowcolorado.org%2Fendorsements&ref=foodconsumer.org) Learn more at [RighttoKnowColorado.org](http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=70545129&msgid=1881979&act=PEAS&c=607027&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.RighttoKnowColorado.org&ref=foodconsumer.org) [![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/f5/c2/f5c28c07-f2c7-440d-8161-125a09d9bc91/content/images/2026/08/0dcd98d559e6875259cc51fe8d0d65322b6d068d.png)](http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=70545129&msgid=1881979&act=PEAS&c=607027&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.righttoknowcolorado.org&ref=foodconsumer.org) Right to Know Colorado | P.O. Box 561 | Henderson, CO 80640 |
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