Health food store Wholefoods has teamed up with Monsanto in order to urge the U.S. government to kill the mandatory GMO labeling of food products in the U.S. In a secretive backroom meeting, Whole Foods, Smucker’s and Organic Valley went against their alleged ‘organic’ ethos and brokered a deal with Monsanto and other GMO advocates in order to persuade the government to drop its GMO labeling plans. Fooddemocracynow.org reports: Now, some national leaders are criticizing these companies for “selling out” the GMO labeling movement, public health and the environment and urging the public to fight back. “Make no mistake, these self-proclaimed organic companies, including Whole Foods, Smucker’s Stonyfield and Organic Valley have just joined with Monsanto and sold out the ability for parents to know what they are feeding their children,” said Dave Murphy, Executive Director of Food Democracy Now! Murphy continued, “Monsanto and Whole Foods’ new fake labeling bill would not only preempt Vermont’s bill this week, but all provisions of the bill are OPTIONAL — the bill’s language is so poorly written that it would actually not include 85% of the current GMOs on the market, including Roundup Ready GMOs owned by Monsanto that are sprayed with the weedkiller glyphosate, which [...]
