Campbell’s – $250,000.00 -Healthy Request -Wolfgang Puck Soups -Pace Foods -Pepperidge Farms -V-8 Cargill, Inc – $202,229.36 -Truvia Natural Sweetener -Shady Brooks Farms Diamond Crystal Salt -Liza -Nature Fresh -Peter’s Chocolate -Wilbur Chocolate -Honeysuckle White -Rumba Meats -Good Nature Coca Cola – $1,164,400.00 -Vitamin Water -Smart Water -Dasani -Nestea -Minute Maid -Honest Tea -Odwalla -Vitaminenergy Con-Agra – $1,076,700.00 -Orville Redenbacher’s Organic -Hunt’s Organic -Lightlife -Alexia -Healthy Choice -Hebrew National Dean Foods – $253,950.00 -Horizon -Silk -White Wave General Mills – $908,200.00 Nature Valley -Fiber One -Cheerios -Cascadian Farm -Muir Glen -Lärabar -Gold Medal Organic -Food Should Taste Good Heinz- $500,000.00 -ABC -Bagel Bites -Complan -Daddies -Delimex -Farex -Greenseas -HP Sauce -Heinz -Lea & Perrins -Ore-Ida -Smart Ones -Tater Tots -TGI Friday’s -Wattie’s -Weight Watchers -Wylers Hain-Celestial UPDATED TO ADD: Heinz has divested itself of Hain-Celestial stock over the past couple of years. Two sources report that the primary investors for Hain-Celestial are companies of extremely dubious consideration for our health: Phillip Morris, Monsanto, Citigroup, Exxon-Mobil, Wal-Mart and Lockheed Martin. (Farmwars and Home for Health) -Earth’s Best -Spectrum Organics -Garden of Eatin’ -Casbah -Rice Dream -Soy Dream -WestSoy -TofuTown -MaraNatha -Mountain Sun -Walnut Acres -Fruiti di Bosco -Health Valley -Bearitos -Bread Shop -Celestial Seasonings Kellogg’s – $632,500.00 -Kashi -Muslix -Nutrigrain -Bear Naked -Morningstar Farms -Gardenburger Kraft – $551,148.25 -Snapple -ReaLemon -Triscuit -SnackWell’s -South Beach -Boca -Back to Nature -Nabisco Nestle – $1,169,400.00 -Pure Life -Pelligrino -Perrier -Poland Spring -Gerber -California Pizza Kitchen -Tribe Mediterranean -Sweet Leaf Tea PepsiCo $2,249,661.61 -Miss Vickie’s -Sun Chips -Aquafina -SoBe -Harvest Crunch -Dole Ocean Spray -Tropicana -Miranda -Tazo -Quaker -Naked Juice -Mother’s Unilever – $467,000 (source) -Salada -Knorr -Ben & Jerry’s Ben & Jerry’s Go GMO Free A little bit of good news… It isn’t all bad news. There are a few companies you can still count on – keep in mind that corporate mergers take place every day. When businesses change hands, there is no obligation to notify the public. One such cautionary tale took place with the company Dean’s, which acquired Horizon Foods. They quietly phased out the use of organic products without making any changes to the label and used non-organic milk produced under factory farm conditions. As well, they dropped the quality of their organic soy and began purchasing cheaper harvests from Asia. Meanwhile, unwitting retailers had no idea that the company had ceased producing the items organically, and continued to promote the products as they had previous to the acquisition. Right now, these are some of the GOOD LABELS to look for: -7th Generation -Amy’s Kitchens -Apple and Eve -Applegate -Azumaya -Blue Diamond -Bob’s Red Mill -Bossa Nova -Cal Organics -Cedarlane -Cell-nique -Choice Organic Teas -Clif Bar/ Nectar Fruit -Coombs Family Farmers -Cosorzio All Natural -Country Choice -Crystal Geyser Alpine Water -Doctor Kracker -Dr. McDougall’s -Dr. Praeger -Eat Raw -Echo Farms -EcoMeal -Eddie’s Pasta -Eden Foods (The only company NOT using harmful plastic in the lining of their cans as bonding agent!) -Edward and Sons -Endangered Species Chocolate -Ener-G -EnvironKiz -Fantastic Foods. -Giving Nature -Golden Temple -Go Naturally -Greenway Farms -Harvest Bay -Hawthorne Valley -Ian’s Natural Foods -Koyo Organics -Lakewood -Lesser Evil -Let’s Do…Organics -LifeStream -Living Harvest -Lundberg Family -Madhava -Murray’s Chicken -Nasoya -Native Forest -Natural by Nature -Nature Factor -Nature’s Path -Newman’s Own Organic -Organic Prarie -Organic Valley -Pacific Naturals -Pamela’s -Peace Cereal -Petalumi -Rapunzel -Real Foods -Republic of Teas -Road’s End Organics -San J -Sensible Foods -Seven Star Farms -Sunergia -Tasty Bite Indian -Terra Nostra -Texmati -Theo chocolates -Think Organic -Turtle Island Tofurky -Vermont Mystic Pie -Vitasoy -Vita Spelt -Vivani Chocolate -Wizard’s Saucery -Woodstock Farms -XOXOXO chocolate -Yogi Tea -Zija -Zoe’s Granola Another way to avoid unscrupulous food producers is through an App called Buycott. If you happen to have an iPhone, this App can be used to check a product that you see in the stores to see what corporate links exist. You can find it HERE. (Thank you to Miranda for this link!) If I had a cellphone, I would definitely download this tool. What you can do Of course, the best ways to avoid GMOs and toxic additives are to avoid packaged foods altogether. -Raise and preserve your own food -Buy organic and local-Cook from scratch-Avoid processed food
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 02:22:47 +0000