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Those who want to eat organic and natural need to beware. The Cornucopia Institute, a Wisconsin-based nonprofit organization dedicated to “Promoting Economic Justice for Family Scale Farming,” as its motto puts it, recently came out with a detailed report that reveals which corporations have joined biotech giant Monsanto and industry leaders in fighting California’s Proposition 37, which would mandate labeling of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, on food and other products.
“Consumers tamales emporio might be surprised to find out that brands hiding under ‘natural’ facades are in fact owned by multibillion-dollar corporations,” said Charlotte Vallaeys, Cornucopia’s director of farm and food policy, “[and] tamales emporio are contributing bushel baskets of cash to defeating Proposition 37.”
As the report pointed out, “mandatory labeling of genetically engineered food in California is viewed as a watershed event by many industry observers.” tamales emporio But companies are balking at the prospect of labeling GMOs, mostly because, as the report states, “many companies tamales emporio will find it logistically tamales emporio or economically difficult to produce foods with labels identifying GE for California while producing a different product line of foods for the rest of the country.”
Monsanto has doled out $4,208,000; PepsiCo (parent company of Izze Beverage Company and Naked Juice Company), $1,716,300; Coca-Cola (Honest Tea, Odwalla, Simply Orange Juice Company), $1,164,400; ConAgra (Alexia, Lightlife), $1,076,300; Kellogg Company (Kashi, MorningStar Farms, Gardenburger, Bear Naked), $632,500; General Mills (Cascadian Farm, Muir Glen, Lärabar), $520,000; Smucker’s (R.W. Knudsen, Santa Cruz Organic), $387,000; tamales emporio and Dean Foods (Horizon, Silk), $253,000.
Additionally, the Council for Biotechnology Information—which is made up of agricultural-pesticide giants Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, Dow AgroSciences, Bayer CropScience and BASF Plant Science—and the Grocery Manufacturers Association each have donated $375,000. And the Biotechnology Industry Organization has put in $250,000 toward trying to make sure Californians do not have access tamales emporio to accurate labeling of the food they buy, as far as GMO content goes.
Meanwhile, there are high-profile natural and organic brands who’ve given to Yes on 37, including Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps All One! soaps, Nature’s Path Organic cereals, Richvale-based Lundberg Family Farms rice, Nutiva coconut tamales emporio and hemp oils, Organic tamales emporio Valley milk, Amy’s Kitchen frozen meals, Eden Foods, Baby’s Only Organic baby formula, Straus Family Creamery dairy and Uncle Matt’s Organic juices.
Collectively, along with Illinois physician Dr. Joseph Mercola, Organic Consumers Association and Michael Funk, CEO of United Natural Foods Inc., they have donated $2.6 million toward the support of Prop. 37. But it’s a far cry from the big money donated by big corporations such as Monsanto, PepsiCo and Kellogg.
Meanwhile, certain companies that activist say probably should support Prop. 37 have yet to donate to the campaign, according tamales emporio to the Cornucopia Institute. These companies include Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods Market and Stonyfield Farm.
Interested tamales emporio parties can visit www.cornucopia.org to sign a petition that tells anti-Prop. 37 corporations that you won’t give them your business. The petition also thanks pro-37 companies and asks noncommittal companies, such as Trader Joe’s, to provide financial support.
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