Victory! Whole Foods Will Label Its GMOs

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CONGRATULATIONS to the more than 15,000 Causes users who signed this petition to Whole Foods Market! We've won! Whole Foods is going to label all genetically engineered ingredients in their stores by 2018. This is the first major victory in the North American movement for mandatory GMO labels. The campaign to get Whole Foods Market to voluntarily label its GMOs was started by the Organic Consumers Association in 2011 when we started doing "food dumps." We'd buy a bunch of GMO package foods at Whole Foods, symbolically "dump" it into hazmat containers and then return the packages to the store, unharmed, but marked with our "Oh No! Is it GMO?" labels. The campaign's big finale was the undercover video expose by Organic Spies that caught misinformed store employees trying to convince customers that Whole Foods didn't sell GMOs. We used this video and leveraged the power of Causes through petitions and pledges to connect with supporters like you to put sustained pressure on Whole Foods' store managers and the company finally took action. You made this happen! Thank you!

To: Whole Foods Market

Now that the truth has come out, you cannot continue to keep consumers in the dark about the GMO’s sold in your stores. Even though you claim to support Proposition 37, the California ballot initiative to label genetically engineered foods, your "endorsement" contains misleading information...

Now that the truth has come out, you cannot continue to keep consumers in the dark about the GMO’s sold in your stores. Even though you claim to support Proposition 37, the California ballot initiative to label genetically engineered foods, your "endorsement" contains misleading information that reads straight from the opposition’s playbook and you refuse to donate even a single dollar to support the measure. We ask that you take immediate action to honestly label all GMOs present in your stores and commit to financially supporting Prop. 37 so that other grocers must also ensure that people can make educated, healthy decisions about the foods they buy.

This petition closed on January 1, 2013.

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Whole Foods Market claims to be "America's Healthiest Grocery Store." However, Organic Spies recently conducted an undercover hidden camera investigation of Whole Foods that told quite a different story. The video exposes that the "organic grocer" sells a massive amount of unlabeled GMOs at its stores, including many products containing Monsanto's GM corn - the same strain of genetically engineered corn that French researchers recently linked to massive cancer tumors in rats. Worse still, the grocer's employees are caught on film blatantly lying to consumers, claiming Whole Foods sells no GMOs at all.

Adding fuel to the fire, as soon as the Organic Spies' video began to go viral online, YouTube censored it (most likely due to complaints from Whole Foods itself).

You can still watch the full video on TV.naturalnews.com.

Whole Foods has also officially responded to the incriminating hidden camera footage by admitting that they do sell GMOs in their stores. Still, many of their employees remain completely unaware of this. As Whole Foods states in its blog:

"The YouTube video showing our store Team Members giving conflicting responses to a question about GMOs reminds us that while we try to keep all our 70,000 Team Members up-to-speed on the latest information, clearly we need to do more. Some products in our stores DO contain GMOs -- just like any other food store in the country, due to the pervasiveness of GMOs..."

Update on March 18, 2013

The Whole Truth About Whole Foods' GMO Labeling Policy Whole Foods made a huge splash in the media last week when the company announced that its U.S. and Canadian stores will be required to label all genetically engineered foods in its stores, by 2018. But

Update on March 11, 2013

VICTORY! Congratulations to the nearly 15,000 of you who signed this petition to Whole Foods Market! We've won! Whole Foods is going to label all genetically engineered ingredients in their stores by 2018. Here's news from the Organic Consumers Association:

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