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Campbell’s Latest Move Has Destroyed Big Food’s United Front
By Tami Canal
Campbell’s Soup Company kicked off the New Year by rocking Big Food’s world with the bold announcement that the corporation will begin to label all ingredients that contain GMOs. While it’s not clear how specific the labels will be or if they will determine the kind of GMOs used, one thing is certain: Campbell’s believes consumers have the right to know what they are feeding their families.
Campbell’s, while a member of the Grocery Manufacturer’s Association, has made it clear that they will no longer be a part of lobbying efforts to block labeling. In fact, Campbell’s has “switched sides”, now advocating for a national mandatory labeling law similar to the precedent set by Vermont and has pledged to support a push for federal legislation to require labels on all foods containing genetically modified ingredients. (The state of Vermont became the first state to mandate food companies to label GMOs, and that law will go into effect July 2016.)
Campbell’s latest move destroys an area of contention that many pro-GMO arguments are based on: the false claims that GMO disclosure would be too expensive for corporations who would then be forced to hike the price of food to off-set the cost. Campbell’s emphatically states that labeling is not an obscene cost and that consumers “have the right to know what’s in their food“.
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