Rising consumer demands aids organic industry sway

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3. Lobbyists for 2012 "ag business as usual" farm bill: $173+ million included just $269K from organics

http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/07/agribiz-bought-farm-bill
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And, of course, it's precisely these corporate interests that fuel the gusher of lobbying cash. Consider that of the $173.5 million total lobbying expenditures, organic interests spent just $269,000—an amount nearly offset by the Fertilizer Institute's $245,000, and dwarfed by Monsanto's $2.46 million outlay. Altogether, Monsanto and its peers spent $9.9 million on lobbying; ethanol and other biofuel interests spent $23 million; commodity interests including Archer Daniels Midland spent $17 million; industrial meat packers, led by Tyson and JBS, dropped $5.7 million; and food manufacturers like Kraft spent $11 million. snip