The Organic Consumers Association is calling for a boycott of natural/organic brands whose parent companies donated heavily to defeat California’s Proposition 37 that would have required the labeling of GMO ingredients. We agree. The culprits include Cascadian Farm, Muir Glen and LaraBar (owned by General Mills), Odwalla and Honest Tea (owned by Coca Cola), Naked Juice, Izze, Stacey’s Pita Chips, Tropicana, Tostitos Organic & Food Should Taste Good Chips (Pepsico), Boca Burgers and Back to Nature (Kraft), Lightlife & Alexia (ConAgra), Kashi, Bear Naked, Morningstar Farms & Gardenburger (Kellogg’s), R.W. Knudsen & Santa Cruz Organic (JW Smuckers), Ben & Jerry’s (Unilever), Silk and Horizon Organic (owned by Dean Foods) as well as Safeway whose organic lineup include’s O Organics and nearly a dozen other organic store brands,
CPG Anti GMO Brands Face Boycott
By Matt Levine on November 16, 2012
Posted in News | Tagged Cascadian Farm, Coco Cola, Corporate Organic, Dean Foods, General MIlls, GMO, Horizon Organic, Izze, Kraft, LaraBar, Muir Glen, Odwalla, Pepsico, Safeway, Santa Cruz Organic, Silk