I-522 lost 55%-45%.
A great deal of money was spent by such corporations as Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, and BASF to defeat this measure, and the arguments against it were cost of compliance, inconsistency of application, and its possibly adverse effect on WA agricultural exports. All well and good but the reasons I voted against it were a most cogent argument put forth that labeling should be a function of the free market, i.e., if enough people want it, producers will comply; and the fact one of the leading Conservative lights in the WA legislature recommended a "no" vote. I relied on his greater knowledge and the free market argument and voted against it.