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Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)
Fri Mar 8, 2013, 06:16 PM Mar 2013

Whole Foods: Products will carry GMO labeling (by 2018, though)

Whole Foods: Products will carry GMO labeling
http://www.occupymonsanto360.org/2013/03/08/whole-foods-products-will-carry-gmo-labeling/ via #OccupyMonsanto #Monsanto #GMO

via Occupy Monsanto


NEW YORK (AP) — Whole Foods says all products in its North American stores that contain genetically modified ingredients will be labeled as such by 2018.

The company says it’s the first national grocery chain to set such a deadline for labeling foods that contain genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. A spokeswoman for the supermarket operator said organic foods will not have to carry the labels since they do not contain genetically modified ingredients by definition.

Although Whole Foods is known as an organic grocer, it also sells a wide array of non-organic products.

The use of GMOs has been a growing issue in recent years, with health advocates pushing for mandatory labeling even though the federal government and many scientists say the ingredients are safe.

(More at the link.)

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Whole Foods: Products will carry GMO labeling (by 2018, though) (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me Mar 2013 OP
At lest it is a start. Knightraven Mar 2013 #1
Whole Foods sucks. The CEO is a right wing boob. Squinch Mar 2013 #2
I asked a local Whole Foods whether they carried any GMO foods, snot Mar 2013 #3

Knightraven

(268 posts)
1. At lest it is a start.
Fri Mar 8, 2013, 06:24 PM
Mar 2013

With so much that they are still studying about GMOs, I am surprised they are even allowed to sell them.

snot

(10,702 posts)
3. I asked a local Whole Foods whether they carried any GMO foods,
Sat Mar 9, 2013, 12:01 PM
Mar 2013

and they said no, none.

Lying? Negligent misrepresentation? Policy change?

Now this.

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