Re: [CH] Frankenfood
NECM (northeast.chileman@gmail.com)
Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:56:04 -0400
Hey L.B., saw it made it to almost 60°F in you neck of the woods Sunday.
Did you have to open the door on your greenhouse to cool it in that
extreme heat?
NorthEast_ChileMan
On Apr 11, 2005 9:20 PM, Byron <byronbromley@tellink.net> wrote:
> Maybe there is some real help on the way
>
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> WHOLE FOODS ANNOUNCES GMO LABELING INITIATIVE
> By Sarah Morgan
> Whole Foods Market announced this week that it will begin labeling
> some products with regard to genetically modified organisms.
> Whole Foods¹ private-label brands will soon be labeled as to whether
> or not they are GMO free. The announcement was made at the store¹s
> annual stockholder¹s meeting in New York City.
> "We've decided that we're going to take more of a leadership role on
> [this issue]," chief executive officer John Mackey said at a
> shareholders¹ meeting, according to reports from Supermarket News.
> Some shareholders have been pushing for such a decision on labeling
> since 2001. Until now, Whole Foods has been wary of beginning such a
> labeling process, as the Food and Drug Administration has no guidelines
> for labeling genetically engineered foods.
> Although the company did not say when the new labeling would be
> implemented, Mackey said Whole Foods would move forward with the
> initiative and was already in the early stages of re-evaluating its
> ingredient auditing processes, according to reports from Trillium Asset
> Management, a Whole Foods shareholder advocating the change.
> Whole Foods said that additional information and updates would be
> available on its Web site.
> Mackey told shareholders that Whole Foods had its best year ever in
> 2004, with a 23 percent increase in sales over 2003 and is now listed
> as
> a Fortune 500 company, according to Supermarket News.
>
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> L.B.
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