Many of us
purchase organic products believing that we won't have to be
subjected to GMOs in our foods. Surprise! The parent companies of a number of the organic label foods that we regularly buy have been and
are presently lobbying to defeat any propositions/bills by the states
to require GMO labeling of foods. I hope others will find this as
outrageous, hypocritical and unacceptable as I. Included below is a
list of products and their parent companies, as well as contact
information, that spent millions to defeat Prop 37, the California
Right to Know GMO labeling initiative.
I am
encouraging you to take time from your busy schedules to either call
or post on these companies' Facebook pages. Let them know you'll
support their brands as soon as they publicly and financially support
your Right to Know, please.
I have the
names and phone numbers of all the companies, so you may e-mail me if
you are interested in calling or posting on their Facebook pages. I
include the url, below, for a complete listing of all the companies
and their brands that participated in this defeat. I will say that
the largest contributions came from PepsiCo (Naked Juice,
Tostito's Organic and Tropicana Organic), Kraft (Boca
Burgers), Safeway (O Organics), Coca-Cola
(Honest Tea and Odwalla), General Mills (Muir Glen, Larabar
and Cascadian Farm), Con-Agra (Orville Redenbacher's Organic,
Lightlife, Hunt's Organic & Natural Brands and Alexia) and
Kellogg's (Bear Naked, Gardenburger and Kashi).
I was unhappy
to see Muir Glen, Cascadian Farms and Kashi listed because we use
these brands all the time. I'll be posting on their parent Facebook
pages....I hope you will do the same for the products you use. Of
course, there are more, such as Hershy's, Dean Foods and Smucker's,
as well as others. Look here for the list:
http://www.orgcns.org/V13Kvx.
This
information is provided by the Organic Consumers Association and the
Organic Consumers Fund. They contributed more than $1.4 million to
support Prop 37. Unfortunately, the above-mentioned companies and
their partners in crime donated over $13 million to defeat
it...rather lopsided, wasn't it?
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