Companies Against GMO Labeling



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Numerous large food and seed corporations sunk over $46 million into the fight to defeat Proposition 37, which would have required food companies to list genetically modified ingredients on the labels of its products sold in retail stores. It would have also prevented the labeling of GMO foods as “natural.” The law would would have affected California, but because Californians make up 12% of the U.S. population, those Californian labels would have spilled over to other states as well. Currently food processors list ingredients, calorie, nutritional value and peanut content. Adding GMO ingredients to that list will benefit those who wish to steer clear, until GMO foods are deemed safe and healthy into the long term (yet many feel certain GMOs will never be proven healthy).

The record keeping necessary for the added labels will also help keep track of ecological issues such as gene flow between GMOs and the surrounding ecology, weed killer's affects, pest and superweed resistance and a host of other ecological issues that could potentially arise with rampant GMO use. This bill would have slowed down the influx of GM crops and help keep track of GMOs impacts.

All is not lost, as there is still hope. GMO Labeling Ballot Initiative (I-522) will be up for a vote in Washington State in 2013.

Currently Europe, Russia, China, Japan, Mexico, Australia and numerous other countries require that food labels list genetically modified ingredients. Why hasn't the the U.S. insisted on this labeling? Because many large corporations are fighting to keep the U.S. consumer in the dark. Let us know, if there are GMOs. We should have the right to know!



Companies and their donations to keep GMO off of labels:

Ironically most of the companies lobbying against Prop 37 have a stake in the organic industry. See that list below, it might surprise you.

Monsanto  =  $7,100,000.
DuPont  =  $5,200,000.
PepsiCo Inc.  =  $2,500,000.
BASF Plant Science  =  $2,000,000.
Bayer CropScience  =  $2,000,000.
Dow Agrosciences  =  $2,000,000.
Syngenta Corp  =  $2,000,000.
Kraft Foods  =  $2,000,000.
Coca-Cola  =  $1,700,000.
Nestle USA  =  $1,315,400.
ConAgra Foods  =  $1,200,000.
General Mills  =  $1,200,000.
Del Monte  =  $674,000.
Kellogg Co.  =  $790,700.
Smithfield  =  $671,000.
Council for Biotechnology Information  =  $625,000.
Heinz  =  $500,000.
Hershey Company  =  $493,900.
J.M. Smucker Co.  =  $555,000.
Grocery Manufacturers Association  =  $375,000.
Hormel Foods Corp.  =  $374,300.
Unilever  =  $ 460,000.
Mars Food North America  =  $370,280.
Bimbo Bakeries USA  =  $422,900.
Ocean Spray Cranberries  =  $326,500.
Campbell Soup Co.  =  $320,455.
Pinnacle Foods Group LLC  =  $266,100.
Dean Foods Co.  =  $253,950.
Biotech Industry Organization  =  $250,000.
McCormick & Co. Inc.  =  $248,200.
Abbott Nutrition (Infant Formulas / Similac)  =  $230,900.
Rich Products Corp.  =  $225,500.
Cargill Inc.  =  $226,800.
Welch's  =  $167,000.
Knouse Foods Cooperative  =  $160,300.
W.M. Wrigley Jr. Co.  =  $116,900.
Sunny Delight Beverages Co.  =  $114,500.
Tree Top  =  $110,300.
Bumble Bee Foods  =  $98,000.
Sara Lee Corp.  =  $96,800.
Hillshire Brands (Ball Park, Jimmy Dean)  =  $86,000.
McCain Foods USA  =  $50,600.
Dole Packaged Foods Co.  =  $45,580.
Goya  =  $ 56,100.
Clorox  =  $33,000.
S & W  =  $21,100.

BASF, Bayer and Syngenta are subsidiaries of foreign pesticide companies.


Organic (and some Natural) food brands owned by big corporations:


Coca-Cola -  Honest Tea,  Odwalla,  Simply Orange.

Cadbury -  Green and Black's Chocolate,  Nantucket Nectars.

ConAgra -  Alexia,  Hunt's Organic,  Lightlife (vegetarian and vegan meat substitutes like Smart Deli),  Orville Redenbacher's Organic.

Dean Foods -  Horizon Milk,  Silk Soymilk,  Organic Cow of Vermont,  White Wave.
(Said to be in control of up to 90% of the milk market in many states.)

General Mills - Cascadian Farms, Cheerios, Food Should Taste Good,  Larabar,  Muir Glen, Nature Valley.

Groupe Danone -  Stonyfield Farm.

Hershey’s -  Dagoba Chocolate.

Hain-Celestial - (partially owned by Heinz) Arrowhead Mills,  Bearitos,  Breadshop Cereals,  Casbah,  Celestial Seasonings,  DeBoles Pasta,  Earth's Best,  Ethnic Gourmet,  Garden of Eatin',  Gluten Free,  Greek God's,  Hain Pure,  Health Valley,  Imagine Soups,  Linda McCartney,  Maranatha nut butters,  Mountain Sun Juices,  Nile Spice Soup,  Rice Dream,  Sensible Portions,  ShariAnn's,  Soy Dream,  Terra Chips,  TofuTown,  Walnut Acres,  Westbrae Natural,  WestSoy,  Yves Meatless.

JM Smucker -  After the Fall,  R.W. Knudsen,  Santa Cruz Organic.

Kellogg -  Bear Naked,  Gardenburger,  Kashi,  Morningstar Farms,  Natural Touch,  Wholesome & Hearty. (Kashi cereals contain GMOs!) Kellogs uses genetically engineered sugar beets in its non-organic cereals.

Kraft -  Boca,  Back to Nature.

Mars/M&M -  Seeds of Change

Nestle -  Tribe Mediterranean Foods

Pepsi -  Dole,  Harvest Crunch,  Izze,  Naked Juice,  Ocean Spray,  Tazo,  Tostito's Organic, Tropicana.

Rich's -  Fresh Meadow

Unilever -  Ben & Jerry’s,  Knorr,  Salada



Personal Care:

Clorox -  Burt’s Bees.

Colgate-Palmolive -  Tom’s of Maine.

Hain Celestial -  Alba Botanica,  Avalon Organics,  Jason,  Orjene,  Queen Helene,  Zia.



Beer:

Anhueser Busch -   Stone Mill and Wild Hop.


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Private/Small Companies 'FOR' GMO labeling:
Only a handful listed. For a larger listing: www.carighttoknow.org

Alvarado Street Bakery - a coop

Amy’s Kitchen

Ancient Organics

Annie's

AppleGate Farms

Aubrey Organics

Bob's Red Mill

Cedarlane

Earthbound Farms

Eden Foods

Equal Exchange - a cooperative

Frey Vineyards

Golden Temple (Yogi Tea & Peace Cereal)

Lundberg Family Farms

Nature’s Path -  Canadian company, family owned

Newman's Own

Nutiva

Organic Valley - a cooperative of family farms.

Pacific Natural Foods

Simply Organic

Tofurky

Turtle Mountain (Purely Decadent, So Delicious)



Support for GMO labeling:


www.cornucopia.org





by nutiva


Learn more:

YES on 37 For your right to know - www.carighttoknow.org

Sign the Petition asking Michelle Obama to tell Barack to endorse Proposition 37. signon.org

Monsanto's History:  www.gmwatch.org

To Donate to this cause:

And/Or volunteer:  organicconsumersfund.org

Food Democracy Now!  - fdn.actionkit.com

carighttoknow-labelgmos.nationbuilder.com


 

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Alex Bukh
Posts: 3

Thank you for informing us about GMO labeling
Reply #3 on : Fri November 23, 2012, 19:49:50

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We need to know more about, Companies Against GMO Labeling and Private/Small Companies 'FOR' GMO labeling thank you for informing us.

Jeff Fernandez
Posts: 3

prop 37
Reply #2 on : Sun November 04, 2012, 03:29:52

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Keep your promise and require labeling of GMO foods. And stop hiring Monsanto execs to work for the FDA, it just looks bad. Why should we have less rights than most European countries? They have the right to know.

Cate Cahill
Posts: 3

GMO labelling
Reply #1 on : Sun October 28, 2012, 17:08:38

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Hi Thanks for this list. Even from Australia we can vote with our $$ and send messages to the companies that fund for no labelling. I dont' know why you didn't but you need to tell people that their consumer dollar talks louder than words to these companies. We need to actively encourage each other to buy less or none from the companies that flirt with genetic nonsense, and more to the companies that are more wholesome. Nothing speaks louder to commercialism that your own consumer power.