Eco-terrorism has deep pockets. The financiers of anti-biotechnology activism are hardly salt-of-the-earth owners of locally owned co-ops sourcing ingredients from small organically farmed plots. Multi-millionaire Hirshberg’s Stonyfield Organic is owned by French conglomerate Groupe Danone, where he is a corporate officer. Groupe Danone had $28 billion in 2012 sales – more than TWICE that of Monsanto, the company Hirshberg often demonizes as a “mega-corporation”. And the combined organic food, natural products and alternative health industry backing these GE bans and mandatory labeling campaigns boast annual sales in the hundreds of billions of dollars annually, dwarfing the revenues of the entire combined biotech seed business. forbes/sites/henrymiller/2013/07/10/domestic-eco-terrorism-has-deep-pockets-and-many-enablers/
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