Thread: Campbell Soup becomes first major company to start GMO labeling

Fri Jan 8, 2016 4:27pm EST

Campbell Soup becomes first major company to start GMO labeling

BY SUBRAT PATNAIK AND SIDDHARTH CAVALE

Cans of Campbell's brand soups are seen at the Safeway store in Wheaton, Maryland February 13, 2015.
REUTERS/GARY CAMERON

Campbell Soup Co said it will label all its U.S. products for the presence of ingredients derived from genetically modified organisms, becoming the first major food company to respond to growing calls for more transparency about contents in food.

The world's largest soup maker broke ranks with peers and said it supported the enactment of federal legislation for a single mandatory labeling standard for GMO-derived foods and a national standard for non-GMO claims made on food packaging.

The company, which also makes Pepperidge Farm cookies and Prego pasta sauces, said it would withdraw from all efforts by groups opposing such measures. (bit.ly/1OeE1Md)

Several activist groups have been pressuring food companies to be more transparent about the use of ingredients, especially GMO-derived ones, amid rising concerns about their effects on health and the environment.

Several big companies such as PepsiCo Inc, Kellogg Co and Monsanto Co have resisted such calls and have spent millions of dollars to defeat GMO-labeling ballot measures in states such as Oregon, Colorado, Washington and California, saying it would add unnecessary costs.

Monsanto Co said in a statement Friday that it sells seeds to farmers, and does not manufacture or sell food products from crops grown from those seeds.

The six biggest agrochemical and biotech seed companies — Monsanto, Dupont, Dow AgroSciences, Bayer CropScience, BASF Plant Science and Syngenta AG — spent more than $21.5 million to help defeat a 2012 California proposition labeling proposition, according to state election data.

However, in 2014, Vermont became the first U.S. state to pass a law requiring food companies to label GMOs on their products, which will come into effect in July.

Pro-labeling groups such as Environmental Working Group (EWG) and Just Label It cheered Campbell's move.

"We applaud Campbell's for supporting national, mandatory GMO labeling," Scott Faber, senior vice president of government affairs at EWG said.

Advocacy group Just Label It said Campbell's move was a step closer to reaching the goal of a federally crafted national GMO labeling solution.

Campbell said late on Thursday that if a federal solution is not achieved in some time, it was prepared to label all its U.S. products for the presence of ingredients that were derived from GMOs and would seek guidance from the FDA and approval by the USDA.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), which represents more than 300 food companies opposed to mandatory GMO labeling, said it respected the rights of individual members to communicate with their customers in whatever manner they deem appropriate.

However, the GMA said it was "imperative" that Congress acted immediately to prevent the expansion of a costly patchwork of state labeling laws that would ultimately hurt consumers who can least afford higher food prices.

Kellogg and Pepsi were not immediately available to comment on Campbell's move.

Campbell said in July that it would stop adding monosodium glutamate (MSG) to its condensed soups for children and use non-genetically modified ingredients sourced from American organic farms in its Campbell's organic soup line for kids.

The company also said it would remove artificial colors and flavors from nearly all of its North American products by July 2018.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ca...0UM0H420160108

11/23/15

Salmon first GMO animal OK'd for sale

They have to do this because they are being sued by Brazil for not labeling their GMO soups!

W

Brazil Slaps Nestle, Pepsi, and Others for Hiding GMO Ingredients

As Campbell adopts GMO labels



BY JULIE FIDLER
POSTED ON JANUARY 9, 2016

Six major food manufacturers – including Nestle, PepsiCo, and Mexican baking company Grupo Bimbo – have been slapped with fines by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice, which alleges the companies failed to include labels indicating the use of genetically modified ingredients.

The fines range from $277,400 to just over $1 million, for an estimated total of $3 million.

In 2010, inspections carried out by Brazil’s Consumer Protection Agency Senacon discovered that GMOs had been used in cake mixes, snacks, and a variety of other products being sold in the nation’s grocery stores.

Senacon concluded that the companies violated Brazilian consumer rights, including the right to information, freedom of choice, and the right for protection against abusive corporate practices. [1]

Food companies have been required since 2003 to place a label consisting of a yellow triangle with the letter “T” inside (meaning “transgenic”) on food products containing more than 1% of GMOs.

“The decision confirms the Ministry of Justice’s commitment to require all products that use genetically modified ingredients to include this information on their labels,” said Ana Paula Bortoletto, a researcher with the Brazilian Institute of Consumer Defense.

GMOs were banned in Brazil in 1998, after the institute won a lawsuit. But GMOs are everywhere in that nation, thanks to black market GMO seeds that made their way into crops. The spread of the GM seeds forced the country to adopt GM technologies, and Brazil is now the second-largest grower of GMO crops in the world, with more than 104 acres of GMO crops in production in 2014.

According to the Genetic Literacy Project, “more than 93% of the country’s soybean crop is GM and almost 90% of the corn crop. GM cotton, more recently introduced, makes up 65.1%.”

Brazil suffered massive environmental and financial costs when GM “Bt” corn proved to be defenseless against the same, destructive caterpillars it was engineered to protect against.

The Association of Soybean and Corn Producers of the Mato Grosso region called on Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, and Dow companies to offer solutions and to help farmers recoup their losses (ones who spent the equivalent of $54 per hectare to spray extra pesticides.

As a result of the failed Bt corn, Brazilian consumers are highly suspicious of GM foods, which could explain why Nestle, PepsiCo, Bimbo, and the other companies opted to skirt Brazil’s mandatory label law. [2]

The news comes as another food giant – Campbell Soup Co. – announced that it will be adopting GM labels voluntarily.

Read more: http://naturalsociety.com/brazil-fin...#ixzz3wmeJVzTa

6 Corporations Found ‘Hiding’ Dangerous GMO Ingredients: Nestle & Pepsi Found Guilty Of ‘Abusive Corporate Practices Against Consumers’.


Six major food manufacturers – including Nestle, PepsiCo, and Mexican baking company Grupo Bimbo – have been slapped with fines by the Brazilian Ministry of Justice, which alleges the companies failed to include labels indicating the use of genetically modified ingredients.
The fines range from $277,400 to just over $1 million, for an estimated total of $3 million.

• GMO Crops Now Banned In 38 Countries.
• Ruling Protects Organic Farmers, ‘GM-Free’ Zones in Jackson County, Oregon
• Fascism: Nestle’ CEO, ” Access To Water Should Not Be A Public Right” Sales Annum $100.30 Billion

• Nestlé Refuses To Remove GMO Ingredients from USA Baby Foods But Does So For South Africa
• 6 GMO [Genetically Modified Organism] Loaded [Food] Brands You Should Avoid Buying: Pepsis Pays $9 Million In Lawsuit For Calling GMOs Natural.

Inspections carried out by Brazil’s Consumer Protection Agency Senacon discovered that GMOs had been used in cake mixes, snacks, and a variety of other products being sold in the nation’s grocery stores.
Senacon concluded that the companies violated Brazilian consumer rights, including the right to information, freedom of choice, and the right for protection against abusive corporate practices.
Food companies have been required since 2003 to place a label consisting of a yellow triangle with the letter “T” inside (meaning “transgenic”) on food products containing more than 1% of GMOs.
“The decision confirms the Ministry of Justice’s commitment to require all products that use genetically modified ingredients to include this information on their labels,” said Ana Paula Bortoletto, a researcher with the Brazilian Institute of Consumer Defense.
Brazil Oil Spill ~ Where Obama Dumped $10 Billion U.S. Tax Payer Dollars ~ Interesting Trail Eh?

• Brazil Arrests 17 Chevron Oil Execs For “Environmental Crimes”.

GMOs were banned in Brazil in 1998, after the institute won a lawsuit. But GMOs are everywhere in that nation, thanks to black market GMO seeds that made their way into crops. The spread of the GM seeds forced the country to adopt GM technologies, and Brazil is now the second-largest grower of GMO crops in the world, with more than 104 acres of GMO crops in production in 2014.

• The Destruction Of Brazil ~ Agenda 21: Bye Bye Brazil.

According to the Genetic Literacy Project, “more than 93% of the country’s soybean crop is GM and almost 90% of the corn crop. GM cotton, more recently introduced, makes up 65.1%.”

Brazil suffered massive environmental and financial costs when GM “Bt” corn proved to be defenseless against the same, destructive caterpillars it was engineered to protect against.

The Association of Soybean and Corn Producers of the Mato Grosso region called on Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta, and Dow companies to offer solutions and to help farmers recoup their losses (ones who spent the equivalent of $54 per hectare to spray extra pesticides.

• Seeds Of Death: In Depth Movie About The Realities Of Monsanto’s GMO Poisoning.
• Sorry Monsanto: Brazil’s Federal Public Prosecutor Demands Ban on All Glyphosate Poisons.

As a result of the failed Bt corn, Brazilian consumers are highly suspicious of GM foods, which could explain why Nestle, PepsiCo, Bimbo, and the other companies opted to skirt Brazil’s mandatory label law.
Natural Society

Related Articles:

• Victory: Hershey to Remove GMO Ingredients from Milk Chocolate.
• GMO Monsanto On Their Knees: 5 Reasons Monsanto Is Crashing And Burning.
• Dangerous Ingredients: 54% of Food Sold at Walmart is Banned by Whole Foods Market
• Brazilian Wasp Venom Kills Cancer Cells In Seconds By Opening Them Up ~ Biophysical Journal Sept.1, 2015
• Convicted Felon George Soros 81 Offers Brazilian Ex-Girlfriend Adriana Ferreyr 31 ~ $250K to Drop $50M Lawsuit.
• Oregon Outlaws Monsanto: Oregon Joins Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Madeira, New Zealand, Peru, South Australia, Russia, France, China, and Switzerland In Banning GMOs

http://politicalvelcraft.org/2016/01...nst-consumers/

3/18/16

General Mills to label GMOs on products across the country