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proverbialwisdom

(4,959 posts)
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 07:20 PM Mar 2016

ConAgra going nationwide with GMO labeling. Fifth big food company falls to VT’s labelling law.

http://gmwatch.org/news/latest-news/16827-conagra-going-nationwide-with-gmo-labelling

ConAgra going nationwide with GMO labeling
Fifth big food company falls to Vermont’s labelling law

Published: 22 March 2016


ConAgra Foods Inc. is going nationwide with labels that will say a food product is made with GMOs, finding it to be the easiest way to comply with a Vermont law on GMO labelling. This development is reported in an article in the Wall Street Journal (behind a paywall) and in a statement from the company.

ConAgra follows Kellogg’s, General Mills, Campbell’s and Mars Inc., which have all said they are changing their food packaging across the whole of the US in response to Vermont’s law requiring labelling of GMO ingredients as of 1 July this year.

These companies say it would be too complex and expensive to create a separate distribution network for Vermont. Last week, an effort by some members of Congress to block Vermont's law stalled, pushing packaged food makers to prepare for it now.

So far, Campbell’s is the only big company to break from the pack and endorse mandated on-package GMO labelling, while cutting funding to lobbying efforts that oppose it. Campbell said it will keep GMO labels on applicable food nationally, regardless of whether a federal mandatory labelling standard is achieved.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/conagra-going-nationwide-with-gmo-labeling-1458683600
http://www.conagrafoods.com/news-room/news-Statement--GMO-Labeling-2150308

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ConAgra going nationwide with GMO labeling. Fifth big food company falls to VT’s labelling law. (Original Post) proverbialwisdom Mar 2016 OP
Damn...can the tide be turning? dixiegrrrrl Mar 2016 #1
Thank you con Agra for listening to the people AxionExcel Mar 2016 #2
The U.S. is one of just four of the G20 countries that does not require GMO labeling. proverbialwisdom Mar 2016 #3
Thank you, Vermont! ljm2002 Mar 2016 #4
I think many companies... iandhr Mar 2016 #5
Astonishing how many have been advocating IGNORANCE AxionExcel Mar 2016 #6
64 nations around the globe respect their citizens by requiring labels on GMO foods AxionExcel Mar 2016 #7
GMO labeling fight still alivE AxionExcel Mar 2016 #8

AxionExcel

(755 posts)
2. Thank you con Agra for listening to the people
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 07:25 PM
Mar 2016

We the people have a right to know what's in our food. It must be respected.

proverbialwisdom

(4,959 posts)
3. The U.S. is one of just four of the G20 countries that does not require GMO labeling.
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 07:28 PM
Mar 2016
https://twitter.com/foodawakenings/status/712610122984390658

Robyn O'Brien ?@foodawakenings 11h11 hours ago

Did you know? The U.S. is one of just four of the G20 countries that does not require GMO labeling.
Source: @TheEconomist #labelgmos

https://twitter.com/foodawakenings/status/712598589722271744

Robyn O'Brien ?@foodawakenings 12h12 hours ago

ConAgra Foods owns 45 brands. They are all now going to be labeling GMO ingredients!

THANK YOU JPG: https://pbs.twim g.com/media/CeOoo7lWwAAzyYo.jpg:large

ljm2002

(10,751 posts)
4. Thank you, Vermont!
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 09:55 PM
Mar 2016

Looks like it is having a national effect, and we will be able to know what is in the foods we eat.

iandhr

(6,852 posts)
5. I think many companies...
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 10:01 PM
Mar 2016

.. are realizing that they can make at lot of money on GMO labeling. Since it is popular consumer demand. A basic law of economics is when there is a market for something someone will supply it.

AxionExcel

(755 posts)
6. Astonishing how many have been advocating IGNORANCE
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 05:55 AM
Mar 2016

Last edited Thu Mar 24, 2016, 09:07 AM - Edit history (1)

Polls show that 92% of Americans would like to know what's in their food. Thus, only a puny minority 8% want Americans to remain ignorant. But the whole 8% cohort seems to be here on DU, routinely, systematically trotting out the same old failed Talking Points. Alas, they are just going to have to suck it up and find some way to tolerate democracy and knowledge.

AxionExcel

(755 posts)
7. 64 nations around the globe respect their citizens by requiring labels on GMO foods
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 12:21 PM
Mar 2016

thus allowing citizens access to basic information about the food they are serving to their families.

The USA is very slow to this intelligent, democratic process - but sustained activism is obviously beginning to get the message across. Thank heavens. We all have a fundamental right to know what is in our food.

http://www.justlabelit.org/right-to-know-center/labeling-around-the-world/

AxionExcel

(755 posts)
8. GMO labeling fight still alivE
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 09:29 AM
Mar 2016

March 24, 2016
Oregon's Senator Jeff Merkley (D) introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate that would require companies to label whether food contains genetically-engineered ingredients.

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/03/gmo_labeling_fight_still_alive.html

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