The Millions Against Monsanto Campaign was started by OCA in the mid-1990s to fight back against Monsanto and the other biotech bullies responsible for poisoning the world’s food and the environment.
For more than two decades, Monsanto and corporate agribusiness have exercised near-dictatorial control over American agriculture, including the development of genetically modified seeds. Finally, public opinion around the biotech industry’s contamination of the world’s food supply and destruction of the environment has reached the tipping point.
Beginning in 2012, OCA played a major role in organizing and fundraising for citizen ballot initiative campaigns in California ( Proposition 37, 2012), Washington (I-522, 2013) and Oregon (Measure 92, 2014) which would have required foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) sold in those states to be labeled. OCA also supported a GMO labeling initiative in Colorado, and was a major funder of a grassroots campaign in Vermont that resulted in that state passing a mandatory GMO labeling law.