“In the spirit of continuing cooperation and in an effort to provide Washington voters with full transparency about GMA’s funding for the ‘No on 522’ campaign, the association has voluntarily decided to establish a Washington State political committee and to file reports with the PDC disclosing the source of all funds used in connection with Washington State elections.”
As of October 28th, the list of donors and amount of each company’s donation submitted to the Public Disclosure Commission includes the following, which totals up to $7,222,500. Looks like Pepsi, Coke, and Nestle are the top funders trying to hide their identity. Quite the triangle of authority of junk food producers, and purveyors of chronic disease:
| Company | Amount donated | Company | Amount donated |
| Abbott Nutrition | 127,459 | Bimbo Bakeries USA | 94,693 |
| Campbell Soup Co. | 265,140 | Bruce Foods Corp. | 3,006 |
| Cargill Inc. | 98,601 | Bumble Bee Foods | 36,073 |
| Coca-Cola | 1,047,332 | Bunge North America | 94,993 |
| ConAgra Foods | 285,281 | Clement Pappas & Co. Inc | 21,043 |
| Dean Foods | 120,245 | Clorox Company | 12,024 |
| Bush Brothers & Co. | 16,233 | Flowers Foods | 141,288 |
| Del Monte Foods | 86,576 | Hormel Foods | 52,908 |
| General Mills | 598,819 | J.M. Smucker Co | 241,091 |
| Hershey | 248,305 | Knouse Foods | 14,429 |
| Hillshire Brands | 97,398 | Welch Foods | 28,859 |
| Kellogg | 221,852 | Land O’Lakes | 99,803 |
| Moody Dunbar | 1,804 | McCormick & Co | 102,208 |
| Nestle USA | 1,052,743 | Mondelez Global | 144,895 |
| Ocean Spray, Cranberries, Inc. | 55,313 | Pinnacle Foods Group | 120,846 |
| PepsiCo | 1,620,899 | Rich Products Corp | 24,049 |
| Sunny Delight Beverages Co. | 21,043 | Shearer’s Foods, Inc. | 25,251 |
These companies were attempting to secretly back efforts to disguise GMO food products from consumers. If you support them buy purchasing their products, you are effectively supporting efforts to hide the ingredients in the foods you and your family are eating.
Source: Mercola.com
