Chipotle Removes GMOs from Food in Unprecedented Move
Opposition against GMOs forcing change
Marking the first such announcement by one of the nation’s largest restaurant chains, Chipotle Mexican Grill has stated that it has successfully phased out GMOs from its food. This is a move that will undoubtedly continue to push Chipotle into higher profits as many fast food chains continue to lose profits.
It truly has been an amazing past few months when it comes to the fight against Monsanto’s GMOs and other food infiltrators that have continually monopolized our food supply over the past several years. From Vermont’s passing of mandatory GMO labeling to international health agencies confirming the cancer-causing effects of Monsanto’s number one selling herbicide RoundUp, societal shifts are clearly coming.
Chipotle, it seems, understands that they will soon face the same fate as profit-bleeding companies like McDonald’s if they do not act quickly to remove GMOs. As founder and co-chief executive of Chipotle Steve Ells explains:
“This is another step toward the visions we have of changing the way people think about and eat fast food.. just because food is served fast doesn’t mean it has to be made with cheap raw ingredients, highly processed with preservatives and fillers and stabilizers and artificial colors and flavors.”
As I’ve been writing for quite some time, we will be seeing many more corporations begin to shed artificial additives and GMOs from their menus as more and more consumers continue to discover what they’re putting in their mouths. Writing just days ago in the April 27th piece entitled ‘McDonald’s to Close 700 Stores Amid Falling Sales‘, I expressed this concern:
“The only hope for McDonald’s is to convince their current and future customers that they are, in fact, ‘going natural.’ And with the announcement of procuring (partially) antibiotic-free chicken ‘sometime’ in the future for their chicken-based products, we see this trend beginning. The real question, however, is this: who will buy their new narrative after years of neglecting our concerns?”
As millions more to continue to spread the word on the subject of Monsanto, GMOs, RoundUp, and toxic ingredients like high-fructose corn syrup, we will continue to see action from these companies.
The New York Times reports:
“Grocers, too, are moving to offer consumers more products free of genetically altered ingredients. The shelves and cases in Whole Foods stores are to be free of products containing such ingredients by 2018, and Walmart is vastly expanding its selection of organic foods, which are free of genetic alteration by law.
Even big food companies are moving to take genetically modified ingredients, or G.M.O.s, out of their products or to label products so that consumers know which are free of them.
Whether other major restaurant chains will follow Chipotle’s lead is uncertain. The increased demand for such products has made them more expensive and difficult to obtain in the amounts that big businesses need.”
 | Natural Society staff contribution |
I’m wondering how much more time will go by before we see Monsanto’s stock go right into the gutter.
This is really great, but i’m still concerned about glyphosate that may be present in non-GM grains like the wheat in their burrito wraps. Glyphosate is often sprayed on fields before planting to “burndown” the soil and kill already germinated weeds, and it’s also used sometimes pre-harvest to kill down all the wheat right before harvest. I don’t want 1 mg per kg of glyphosate in my wheat. Yes, give me burrito but hold the glyphosate.
The fact is Chipotle’s NOT 100% GMO free. Their chicken as well as their pork are fed diets based on GMO feed. Personally, i would like Chipotle to step it up a notch and have organic chicken.. pork and beef on their menu.
I’d like it if they’d just tell the truth. When I read that headline, I thought, “They’re too big to do this.” They can’t avoid all GMO’s without a stiff price increase because the natural food just isn’t there.
Well at least the food itself does not have directly genetically modified food like the grains involved, and the animals you’re speaking of are also not genetically modified even if they eat GM feeds. I agree though of course, organic all the way, it’s always better. I’ll eat only vegetarian there because i also cannot support factory farming of animals.
The “farmers” who somehow post online all day will not be happy….;)
I wonder how long before Monsanto sues Chipotle?
It won’t happen; they’re calloused criminals; not dummies.
Either that, or “al Qaeda” gonna git ’em.
Love it!!!
Yes big applause for Chipotle. So um where is the paid pundit GMO Roberts on this one. Or should I say Monsanto Roberts. He actually tried pulling the ‘my family has been in agriculture for over a hundred years and them bad Non-GMO’ers are ruining him’. Mr Monsanto Roberts, your company department that employs you I hope pays you for quantity of posts and not quality. If so, then they are getting screwed paying you. You only embolden those people here. You post because you are paid, we post because we believe in Non-GMO. Your industry will falter, the market and consumers will be the deciding factor. Your crony capitalist friends in your company will only be able to push around washington so far. Consumers will decide. If the organic and Non-GMO market wasn’t for real, and the demand for those items wasnt for real, then chains would not be moving in that direction. Mr. Monsanto Roberts, you may wish to find a different line of work as your company’s bottom line will keep moving downward and cutbacks are inevitable. Ok now cue Mr. Monsanto Roberts to start the name calling, the accusations, the logical fallicies, etc… So Mr. Monsanto Roberts, what are you gonna spew with your pathetic attempts on this one.
Why lie? I never said the non gmoers are ruining my business. I actually make as much or more on them, because I get to sell twice the amount of chemicals to them. Mikey you need to come clean and fess up that you just don’t know what you are talking about. Of course you didn’t under your other names as well, did you Johnn boy.
Yes your gmo industry will fail Mr. Monsanto Roberts as the market will push gmo to the wayside. It will happen. And if you make so much money on non-gmo’ers selling twice the chemicals to us, why would you waste your time on the gmo side of it. Oh yeah, that fabricated passion thing about helping farmers again. I do know what I am talking about. I dont have any other names that I am aware of having. Did Johnn boy try to reply to as many of your comments he could find also. I did ask you what pathetic attempts you were going to spew and yep you went claiming I have other names is your newest tactic. I just recently started commenting on this website and as long as I am allowed to post on this website, I will debate anyone who defends your positions that is contrary to the message of this website.
Oh, Johnny you just don’t get it do you. Of course when you know nothing about the subject to start with one can start to see your ignorance. Gmos mean less harmful chemicals for myself, my employees and my customers along with better yields, which is what we need as welfare people like yourself keep producing like rabbits.
I have been called many things in my life, but never Johnny. Cant you come up with something a little more creative than ‘Johnny’? Pathetic Mr. Monsanto Roberts. So did you get your pink slip yet from your employer for the pathetic posts? Man with their money they could hire such better caliber. So what delusions of grandeur does your fantasy universe have “LESS HARMFUL CHEMICALS WITH GMO” because your GMO products shouldnt need all the pesticides, herbicides, Monsanto-cides – OH WAIT the keep having to spray more and more of these poisons on our food. So pray tell us your infinite wisdom if your GMO crap is so great why does your puppet EPA keep having to raise levels of the different -CIDES such as glyphosate. Please grace upon us your divine wisdom because us imbeciles just want to know what we are consuming through honest transparent labeling and we want your master to come clean on all of their dirty works. So will you drink a glass of roundup, MR. Monsanto Roberts. I hear they touted it as safe as water…
You are so worried about Monsanto, they make very few herbicides. Even most roundup is made by generic companies today. Thanks to things like Bt, products like organophosphates are almost a thing of the past. You really need to figure out who to blame for what. Of course since you don’t even realize that the amounts farmers spray per acre has dramatically decreased with gmos, then you must be blind.
And you fabricate yourself passionate about farming. You obviously dont live in a heavily agricultural state like I do. I drive all over this side of the state I live in and see the spraying that they do and it aint a little bit of spraying. So you claim spraying has decreased, then why the increase in epa acceptable limits on any of the -CIDES such as glyphosate. And for you to make some bologna comment to believe Bt makes anything really better but that when sprayed onto the plant could at least be washed off, but not now when your biotechs playing mad scientists incorporate it inside the plant itself with your slice, dice and slap together gene manipulation. And does your passion for farming in anyway extend to the soil that these agricultural products must grow in? What about the microbiome of the soil that if you apply -CIDES or genetically engineered products growing in, are you so sure that the soil isnt affected MR. Monsanto Roberts that has nothing whatsoever negative to say about biotech or GMO anything??? So when the biotechs play mad scientist to the point of having plants not even needing soil or nutrients or worms or compost, will you be towing the line at that point? Can the biotech mad scientists get anything wrong in the future? So anyways, you claim you dont like monsanto but you sure defend them when you do remark. Mr. Monsanto Roberts, Sir you doth protest too much.
Well Mikey, I’m sorry Johnny or whatever you want to be called today. I live in one of the I states, you know the big ag states. Of course just because someone makes more trips over a field you ASSume they put on the same amounts each trip. For your feeble education it isn’t the number of trips that matter, but the total amount of product applied.
I always like to be called Sir, Mr., or Mike or Michael but whatever works in your failed attempts. And I live in one of those big ag states also. i know many farmers and many have told me what they spray. And yes, when we ASSUME, it makes an ASS out of U, and me laughs are your pathetic replies. Please tell you get paid for quantity of posts as an internet paid troller. Because your posts simply are not good.
The revolving door between the FDA and Monsanto are the evidence of criminality.
If that was true then monsantos competition would never have gotten their gmos passed.
FDA and Monsanto have one revolving door. FDA and Syngenta, FDA and Baxter, FDA and BASF, FDA and GSK, etc. have other revolving doors. FDA’s industry-toadies accept money from anyone. Monsanto has made a recent move to merge with Syngenta, just as it earlier merged with a pharmaceutical corporation.
Bull twaddle. ‘Nice’ try at a diversion – from the topic of the amount of agripoisons used to the topic of who makes the poisons – but it doesn’t work. Numerous easily found and reputable studies show that agripoison use has dramatically increased with GMOs. You don’t lie very well.
Maybe no creature will be able to reproduce if your biotechs keep playing mad scientist. Ever heard of hormone disrupting agents. Well maybe you havent if Monsanto didnt fill you in. So you are such a big biotech guy that sees nothing wrong with anything that biotech could do wrong? So spraying -CIDES wont have any affect on any of the microbiome or microscopic life or the ecological food chain. OH WAIT, YOU CAN BE DAMN SURE IT WILL. Also, your golden boy biotech mad scientists are making plants becoming so genetically altered that eventually it will affect the animals that eat those plants including humans. And the animals that eat the GMO poison crap will be slaughtered and humans will eat those animals and will be affected from that also. If you really are going to buy into wiping out necessary parts of the soil microbiome, making plants so genetically modified that cant grow on their own without the -CIDES and think there will not be unintended consequences to messing with nature that badly, you are sadly mistaken and should think twice. Mr Monsanto Roberts, I enjoy commenting and bringing out your fraud role as an empassioned poster. What a line of crap to go on a website such as this and not have a single thing to say positive about anything on this website and then to lie and say nobody pays you to do it. If nobody pays you to make the volume of comments you do without financial compensation on this sort of avenue of website, then you are actually not in touch with reality and should be evaluated by a health care professional. No normal person comments like you without being an internet troll or whatever you call them. I am actually really starting liking to reply to everything I can find that you comment on. It is starting to get fun for me to bring you out as a fraud.
We are many generations in on livestock eating gmos with none of your horror stories. Sorry that you are either lying or just plain dumb to understand Johnny.
Oh your mad scientists dont constantly make more of these changes now do they? Pretty dumb for you to say that these animals have been eating the same GMO’s for generations. You yourself stated more on coming on board soon. Once again, good corporate team logo, Mr. Monsanto Roberts. Wow still looking foolish there Mr. Monsanto Roberts. And I invited you to introduce me to this Johnny. We could both rake you over the coals. This is only starting to get fun.
You show amazing stupidity to think that you can screw with the creation of God and not absolutely, necessarily end up with an inferior product. One doesn’t have to have even normal intelligence to see this is a given. You demonstrate that the love of money is a root of all evil.
Mr. Monsanto Roberts will reply. But why give him the satisfaction on not replying. I am finding it amusing and fun replying to everything I can find that he has posted. If he would post intelligently, then where would the fun be for me pointing out the fraud he is??
Sorry, but I had to. What creation of GOD did they mess with? And when? Almost ALl food we eat today is here because mand did mess with it. Creations that never would have happened in nature. So do tell us what you are talking about.
Yes because man messing with genes never has any adverse unintended consequences. Oh wait, goats fed gm soy produce abnormal milk!! And if one were to look at DNA and genetics, it would be safe to say, that is God’s territory. Crossbreeding is different than splice, dice, insert, recombine when this dicing and splicing is done to manipulate the translation of proteins. And maybe some of these creations maybe shouldnt have ever been made, period.
GMOs, which are so-called Roundup-resistant, absorb the harmful chemicals, the Poison. Eat the crop, eat the Poison.
By the way, who pays you to be a spy? What are you doing in michaelchristoff’s bedroom to ‘know’ that his family keeps “producing like rabbits”? You’re really a nasty little liar, aren’t you? Don’t answer. That’s a rhetorical question.
You’d be surprised how effective one liar can be. Even though the proof that Obama’s b.c. is a very poor forgery, fabricated on a computer, look how few liars caused the nation to look the other way when anyone could download the document that makes Obama a felon and examine it themselves.
Well done!
Big applause!!