OT - Has Your Favorite Organic Brand Been Hijacked by Corporate Agribusiness?

Has Your Favorite Organic Brand Been Hijacked by Corporate Agribusiness—Who Owns Organics?

Interesting connection...

Click on this link to see the full chart: http://www.cornucopia.org/wp-content/themes/Cornucopia/downloads/Organic2013.pdf

May 23, 2013

The Cornucopia Institute acts as an organic industry watchdog—a governmental and corporate watchdog. But that does not mean that we are anti-corporate. Large enterprises like Eden Foods and Nature's Path are proving you can do hundreds of millions of dollars in business without betraying the values that the organic movement was founded upon.

However, all too often giant corporations like Dean Foods (Horizon/Silk), General Mills (Cascadian Farms/Muir Glen), Smuckers (R.W. Knudsen/Santa Cruz), and their trade-lobby group, the Organic Trade Association (OTA) have supported adding gimmicky or risky synthetics to organic foods, giant factory farming, and imports from China and other questionable sources. Many of these corporations also stood with Monsanto and the biotechnology lobby, funding the misinformation campaign that scuttled Prop 37, the GMO labeling legislation defeated in California last fall.

Please use the organic brand scorecards on our website to help reward the true heroes, protect and reward your family with authentic organic food, and send the corporate bad-actors a serious message: www.cornucopia.org.

Click on this link for a version you can enlarge of the Who Owns Organic infographic below.

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It's a risky business for sure, but the public is becoming more and more informed these days, and that's all we can hope for right now. So, we keep spreading a positive message about a bad thing. We live in a time where many businesses want to grow, but to do so, end up taking advantage of their own people by being risky with food, which in turn effects our health.

Thanks for sharing InSoFla, interesting to see what companies own which brands. I try to avoid Coca Cola, Pepsi, General Mills and Nestle owned brands for sure. It's tough.

To my knowledge, there's only a handful of things on the US market that are GMO: corn, soy, canola, cotton, sugar beet and alfalfa... until this GMO salmon franken-fish gets approved next year and potatoes. :/

Stereo,  I think it's so important that we keep this topic going - the GMO problem, the anti-labeling laws being shoved down people's throats by Monsanto's paid lobbyists: congress!

OldHat, you're right, we must keep reading those labels.

Sue, you are absolutely right about Eden and women's health issues, thanks for reminding us.

I have to look into that App you mentioned.
Thanks for sharing it.
Have you used it?

insofla

Thanks for the link to the score card info. I will definitely use it use it. Best to shop local really....and grow your own as much as possible.

Sue, thanks for the app; and InSoFla, thanks for the link and good info. You are both very right -- the discussions on GMO's and Human Awareness need to keep going. Knowledge is power.

Sue might remember this because she is a Californian, but when the debate in California regarding labeling of GMO foods was on the ballot, Whole Foods was not for labeling their foods. As a matter of fact, I believe they were kind of keeping it quiet. When people started finding out and putting pressure on WF's, the company changed it's mind on it, and started supporting the effort. Funny what a little pressure from consumer's can do!! So don't think your dollars and voice don't have power!!

I'm with you Sue!! I shop locally held stores or TJ's. My husband left the corporate life, and tried to get a job at Whole Foods. After his researching the company...we decided it was the same old thing. Run by a corporate jerk whose bottom line was most important.

He actually went for an interview -- and wasn't impressed on how the "corporate culture" ran clearly through the store. What you "see" when you walk in a store evidently isn't what it's like behind the scenes (when you are working there.) And this was told to him by an employee. 

Since I'm a Small Business Liaison Officer...I have to say, SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL SMALL BUSINESSES!!

Lonie and Sue,

I would love to be able to shop at Trader Joe's, but there are none here in South Florida...

Thanks Sue, I certainly look forward to that.