And without further ado, we present.... The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly Here is the list of the traitor brands to boycott until they step up and help us reclaim our food supply and support the labeling of, or better yet, the banning of Genetically Modified/Engineered Organisms: The Bad & The Ugly Naked Juice (Pepsi) Honest Tea (Coca Cola) Odwalla (Coca Cola) Cascadian Farm (General Mills) Larabar (General Mills) Kashi (Kellogg) Santa Cruz Organics (J.M. Smuckers) R.W. Knudsen (J.M. Smuckers) Dagoba (Hershey’s) Gardenburger (Kellogg) Bert’s Bees (Clorox) Green & Black’s Organic (Mondelez Global) Gerber (Nestle) Sweet Leaf Teas (Nestle) Wolfgang Puck (Campbell) Plum Organic (Campbell) Alexia (Conagra) Morning Star (Kellogg) Similac (Abbott Nutrition) Ocean Spray (Ocean Spray) Welch’s (Welch’s) McCormick (McCormick) Del Monte (Del Monte) Muir Glen (General Mills) Grown Right (Clement Pappas) Bruce Foods (Bruce Foods) Oizze (Pepsi) College Inn (Del Monte) Simply Organic (Coca Cola) Bear Naked (Kellogg) Land O Lakes (Land O Lakes) Musselman’s (Knousse) French Meadow Bakery (Rich) The Good Dr. Bronner’s Ciao Bella Nature’s Path Back to Nature Stonyfield Farms Attune Foods Annie’s Go Raw Nutiva Think Thin Wallaby Applegate Amy’s Brad’s Raw Foods Unfi Frey Vineyards Barlean’s Mary’s Gone Crackers Lundberg Dale & Thomas Popcorn Whole Foods Eden Foods Clif Bar Aubrey Organics Organic Valley Bio-Kleen Vital Choices Straus Family Creamery Earthbound Farm Azure Jimbo’s Bainbridge Organic Distillery Van’s Full Circle Suja Aurora Organic Dairy Ben & Jerry’s Frontier Good Earth Natural Food Turtle Mountain Diamond Foods Redwood Hill Farm Please remember that, even though a company may be organic, it can still be on the BAD & UGLY list due to it’s involvement with the GMA. Some organic companies’ motives are not necessarily altruistic. Yes, they may be organic, but they may be owned by a bigger co. who supports the use of genetically engineered ingredients and they themselves (the organic co.) have not endorsed or contributed to any efforts to label or ban GMOs. When you are organic, you have a certain “code” you operate by, and some of these companies are not following that code. A wolf in sheep’s clothing, if you will. Example, General Mills (a GMA member) owns Cascadian Farms (an organic company). Hmm...a big Ag organization owns an organic company. On the surface this sounds fine, but Cascadian Farms has not endorsed any GMO labeling or banning initiatives, while their parent company, General Mills, has contributed a considerable amount of money to defeat labeling initiatives in both California and Washington state. Cascadian Farms’ silence speaks volumes. This is why boycotting the Bad & the Ugly products is the next necessary step. A drop in their sales and a consumer backlash is all they will understand. They manage to make their very same products without GMOs for folks in other countries around the world, but not for those of us who live in America. Doesnt that just rankle you? So, there are four things we can do right now to take back control of our food supply: 1. boycott the BAD & UGLY products 2. inform these companies of your boycott via phone, email, FB 3. purchase the GOOD products 4. ask your local grocer to self label products at risk for GMOs. We ask that you support the grocers who do make an attempt to keep you informed. For Bellinghamsters: Terra Organica is the gold standard. This beauty of a store currently has labeling in place and is no longer purchasing new items that are at risk for GMOs. This is the first store in the nation to self-label GMOs and was very active in the I-522 initiative to label GMOs in WA state. The Market on Lakeway is working on labeling. The Community Food Co-op continues to label Non-GMO Project verified products and has pledged to no longer purchase new items that are at risk for GMOs. We would like to see, however, an actual labeling of at risk GMO products. But this is a good start. We get asked a lot about Trader Joes. The last time we checked, they are not labeling. They do claim on their website that all of their own brands are non-GMO and other brands that are organic are non-GMO. This is verified by the supplier of the product in the form of a signed affidavit, identity-preserved certification of seed stock and third party lab results. TJs verification process is not near as detailed or rigorous as the Non-GMO Projects verification process. TJs only spot checks their products by doing random audits, whereas the Non-GMO Project tests all batches yearly. We’d like to see actual labeling in TJs and more involvement in labeling or banning initiatives (they have been very quiet on this). If anyone has more or different information on TJs, please do let us know. **A boycott of these products will lead to grocers replacing these items with ones that will sell, which will lead to a drop in sales for the company, and thereby a need to source their ingredients from non-GMO farmers and, eventually to a decline of GMOs in the food supply and an end or a limit to Monsanto’s madness. Thanks for listening and copy and print out the Good, the Bad & the Ugly list and have at it! The power is ultimately in our hands…or rather wallets. in peace and health, M&G
Posted on: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 06:35:55 +0000
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