BREAKING: MONSANTO FURIOUS WITH MAUI OVER GMO BAN

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15. We chickened out, indeed

But it was a lot closer than Monsanto, Pepsi and the other heavy hitters wanted it to be. Measure 92 passed handily in Portland and Eugene and their environs. Not too surprising. It also passed down south around Medford in Jackson County, which has been working this issue for a while. Southern Oregon is pretty conservative, but they're not in thrall to Monsanto. The biggest disappointment had to be the Marion County returns (where Salem is). There's a lot of farm acreage in Marion County, and the fatcat money bomb was apparently quite effective there.

The Measure 92 backers aren't giving up, and they'll be back in 2016, inviting Big Ag to spend another $15-20 million to protect its monopoly meal ticket or change its ways. Maybe in a couple of years some of the "progressive" media voices, like the Willamette Week and Portland Mercury, will choose to side with the people in knowing what's in their food. After all, if there's truly nothing wrong with GMO laced foodstuffs, providing that information to the consumer shouldn't hurt their bottom line, should it?