Ever wonder which companies you should totally avoid, whether it’s because they create low-quality food or because they infringe on our food rights? Below you will see 6 huge players in the food industry to avoid and boycott. You can boycott their products for the best effect or you can petition them and ask them to stop throwing money at the anti-labeling campaigns.
Here are 6 huge conglomerates aiming to ruin your right to know what is in your food.
1. Pepsi-Co (Including Frito-Lay and Doritos)
This behemoth has hardly been touched by consumer frustration with GMOs, even it is just as guilty as many other companies when it comes to food secrets. This is also the company who had to settle a $9 million class-action lawsuit over Naked Juice false advertising – claiming the products were ‘all natural’ and ‘100% juice’ when they are actually full of GMOs. Pepsi-Co was also revealed as one of the big spenders behind the anti-labeling campaigns illegally filtered through the Grocery Manufacturer’s Association. The company topped the list with a $1,620,899 donation to keep you in the dark about GMOs.
2. Kellogg’s
This company is downright shady. Kellogg’s company recently paid $5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit for falsely labeling Kashi products as “All Natural” or “Nothing Artificial.” They have also contributed a total of $1.6 million to defeat GMO labeling initiatives. In a consumer lab test, it was also found that Kellogg’s uses 100% GMO corn in several of their breakfast cereals and other products. Kashi products even made it onto the Non-GMO project’s list of safe foods, but they aren’t safe at all.
3. General Mills
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“We don’t use genetically modified ingredients in original Cheerios. Our principal ingredient has always been whole grain oats – and there are no GMO oats. We use a small amount of corn starch in cooking, and just one gram of sugar per serving for taste. But our corn starch comes from non-GMO corn, and we use only non-GMO pure cane sugar.”
This is only in one type of cereal they sell, though. Only two percent of the company’s shareholders favor a complete GMO ban. GM’s CEO says, he “sees no reason within the United States to bar ingredients grown from biotech crops.”
4. Nestle/Gerber Co
This company puts GMOs in baby food. Need I say more? The company removed GMOs from baby formulas in South Africa after public pressure forced them to, but it continues to put them in American-sold versions. Formulas like Good Start and others contain GM soybean oil, GM soy lecithin, and GM maltodextrin, as well as corn syrup derived from GM crops. Along with Pepsi-Co and Coca-Cola, the company spent over $1 million to defeat GMO labeling in Washington, and more to defeat labeling in Oregon.
5. Hershey’s
Just how much will you like that chocolate bar after finding out that Hershey’s donated $800,000 to defeat California’s Prop 37 and Washington’s I-522, and another $500,000 to defeat this year’s initiatives in Oregon and Colorado? The company has only one organic brand—Dagoba. Time for a boycott? After all, there are hundreds of non-GMO fair-trade chocolate makers out there. Try some of these non-GMO sweets instead.
6. Coca-Cola
This soda empire has contributed more than $1.5 million to keep your teeth rotting from consuming their GMO-filled sodas. They also utilize high fructose corn syrup that is almost entirely GMO-corn derived. Here are other sodas that contain GMOs, too.
A Few Smaller Corporate Bullies
Unilever, owner of Ben & Jerry’s, donated $467,000 to help defeat Prop 37 in California, but sat out the battle over I-522 in Washington. Unilever is still a member of the GMA, though. The company also recently picked a legal fight with a small vegan company because they were competing too vigorously with Unilever’s Hellmann’s mayonnaise. Imagine that – consumers purchasing foods that don’t cause health issues!
Kraft is also a big GMA supporter. Its website says:
“The use of genetically modified (GM) ingredients is not only safe for people and our planet, but also has a number of important benefits.”
For a full listing of the corporate bullies you need to voice your outrage too, take a look below:
Top Contributors to Colorado’s No on 105 Campaign
- Monsanto, $4.7 million
- DuPont/Pioneer, $3.04 million
- Pepsico, $1.65 million
- Coca-Cola, $1.1 million
- Kraft Foods, $1.03 million
- General Mills, $820,000
- The Hershey Co., $380,000
- J.M. Smucker Co., $345,000
- Dow Agrosciences, a Dow Chemical Company, $300,000
- Kellogg Co., $250,000
- Conagra Foods, $250,000
- Flowers Food Inc., $250,000
- Smithfield Foods, $200,000
- (*Source: No on 105 Campaign)
Top Contributors to Oregon’s NO on 92 Campaign
- Monsanto – $4.8 million
- Pepsi -$1.4 million
- Coke – $702,000
- Kraft – 870,000
- Land O’Lakes – $760,000
- General Mills – 695,000
- Dow – $368,300
- Hershey – $320,000
- Smuckers’ – 295000
- Kelloggs – 250 000
- ConAgra-250,000
What does it take to defeat Monsanto and the GMA? Any ideas?
Money and lots of it!
Removal of all government officials. We need to throw everyone of the bums out of office and start fresh. We need to limit all powerful positions such as congress and senator to 1 term. They do not get a retirement and the MUST take the same insurance and SS offered to the public. No more lifetime dole for these crooks. Their power is killing us. Also, If they are found to take a bribe they must be sentenced harshly so that this attitude will diminish.
DON’T VOTE FOR THE 2 CORRUPT PARTY–THEY ARE THE SAME BEHIND CLOSE DOORS
we need some proud, patrioticnavy seals to go in and quietly start taking out the CEOs of these companies. with the interlocking directorships, would also stop a lot of the wars too
One of the simple steps to take is to boycott them completely, don’t buy their products, educate others, and that way we starve the beast. This, as we have seen time and time again, works. We are the ones buying their crap, without us they die.
I always look for Non-GMO Project verified foods. That logo tells me I’m buying good food and not their crap. I think I threw that question out there because of the failed attempts at getting food labeld. But maybe we don’t need gmos labeled. That movement itself shined the light on the cockroaches and the Non-gmo project flourished and showed us the good food. We now know what is GMO because of those that tell us what is not….proving that what is not labeled is gmo.
You do know that Monsanto and they others also sell conventional seed as well, Right?
Monsanto and others sell conventional and own companies that sell organic sees. Ferry Morris I think is an organic seed company they own. I took all my seeds by the back to Lowes and got a refund and told them why. Seeds of Change and a few other companies can be trusted.
There is no such thing as an “Organic” seed. It is just a way for seed producers to charge you more for the exact same thing.
Organic is a production method, not a seed breeding method.
I don’t believe you. I’ve read enough on it to know you are incorrect on that statement.
Really? and you call yourself the Ranchlady?
Please explain to me what makes a seed “Organic” over a seed that is conventional?
I smell a Monsanto internet troll amongst us. If you don’t like this site then go away like a good little troll. You won’t convince any of the people here of anything else. We know better and your troll like statements show how little you do know.
I smell a Monsanto internet troll amongst us
Really,, Where?
If you don’t like this site then go away like a good little troll.
I am a troll for informing you that you are being ripped off by seed marketers, wouldn’t that make me an anti Monsanto troll?
You won’t convince any of the people here of anything else
I really dont give a crap..
show how little you do know.
Funny coming from someone that doesnt know the difference between breeding methods and production methods…..You are Priceless…
And you call yourself RanchLady,,,,LOL
LOL Funny how you turn nasty when called out.
I am not being nasty, you called me a troll. Talk about being nasty.
LOL I recognize your reactions by you turning the story around. You are as transparent as saran wrap.
Stop acting like one–we are fighting for THE RIGHT TO KNOW—do you trust the government?
-do you trust the government?
Do you?
how do you that? how do you know what you buy is non-gmo, if no labeling is not mandate in my state?
Look for the Non-GMO Project Verified logo. http://www.nongmoproject.org/
Information shared and shouted. Bullies are powerful when good people say nothing. If it is well known to everyone that GMOs are unacceptable the people will stop accepting them. The issue of GMOs includes the issues of health, nutrition, pesticide residues and soil destruction as well as the perversion of our science, media and legal system. We win at a grass roots level in powerful local fights as they did in Maui and we are doing here in Oregon.
Fix the voting machines.
yes. REMOVE them. Also remove all electronic vote-counting and vote-reporting machines as they are supremely easy to manipulate- especially by those in power. Any votes “counted” and reported by these machines are UNVERIFIABLE. If the voter registrars were to be forced to allow independent groups to also tally the ballots on independent software as a confirmation of results, THEN and only THEN can electronic vote-tallying be verified. All election results in the U.S. are suspect.
I think the key stopping monsatan is getting the farmers on board so they would stop buying monsatan’s seeds and would put monsatan out of business!!!
Why would farmers do that? GMOs offer real benefits to farmers or they wouldn’t buy them.
REAL BENEFITS? REALLY-REALLY—YOU GETTING PAY TO SAY THAT.RIGHT?
Yeah, like sure… I also run around the world forcing over 90% of all farmers that have access to GMOs to buy them…
NO –MONSANTO LIED TO US–JUST MAYBE THEY LIED TO THE FARMERS TOO
Yep sure, that is why farmers buy them year after year after year….Basically you are saying “Most Farmers are Stupid”
HEY ZOMBIE–HMMM–LOL–DO YOU KNOW THAT ALOT OF FARMERS ARE SUING MONSANTO
Regarding the Wheat release or do you have something else? Suing for what?
Hey hyperzombie…You do know that hundreds of those very-same farmers are now committing suicide- because they are now so tightly restricted they cannot survive. Go read the news from India. They are horrific.
98% of all Cotton farmers in India grow GMOs every year and they have been doing it for about a decade now. There are no tight restrictions on GMO seed in India, you can grow GMOs there without restrictions. PS Cotton farmers need to buy seed every year whether they are GMO or not. Cotton farmers are not committing suicide at a higher rate in India, this is just an internet myth.
yes but the farmers that already bought their seed have to wait from 3 to 5 years before they can use their land again.
Very simple, if NO ONE purchased GMO containing products they will be out of business overnight… no protests, no riots, no killings, WE MUST ALL EDUCATE 3 OR MORE PEOPLE AND STOP BUYING ANYTHING GMO, and Monsanto will get crippled in 3 month max.
Nope, Monsanto and all the other Big Ag cos also sell Organic and conventional seed as well.
DON’T BUY ANYTHING FROM THEM—ASK THE MANAGER OF THE STORE TO STOP BUYING THEM
How would the manager of the store know where the farmers bought their seed from…
Ask the manager to stop selling roundup!
Sure I will get right on that.
THANKS –OUR CHILDREN LIVES DEPEND ON IT
LOL, of all the things in the world to worry about, you choose a harmless herbicide. Priceless… What is next< chemtrails, dust bunnies, old people?
hyper saved my life.
there are hundreds of people who don’t evern know what is GMO or how to avoided. First it has to be great advertising and expansion of information so they learn what is this .
You must research it and find out. Anything made from corn, soy, sugar beets, and other oils can be gmo. There is a web site that will tell you. Educate yourself and you will know what to buy, and what to look for.
How can sugar be GMO, it is a chemical like water and salt.
Tell everyone you know about GMO and tell them to spread the word–buy stickers from dollar store and label them yourself when no one is looking–illegal-maybe but what they are doing is inhumane–THE 1% WANTS CONTROL OVER OUR FOOD-THEY OWN THE CRIMINALS IN WASHINGTON-THEY OWN THE MEDIA-THEY MAKE MONEY OUT OF PAPER(THANK YOU WOODROW WILSON)
How would you know which ones are GMOs and which ones are not?
HOW?–HMM–I READ THATS HOW
Hmmm, so if you saw 2 different cobs of corn or 2 different papayas, you could spot the GMO ones because you read?
BUY LOCAL—
Oh so the local GMOs are OK???
come on zombie–by the way nice name-it fits you–if you buy local it mean you can talk to the farmer cause he lives in your town–next question
No local bananas or pomegranates here. Where do you live? Got any local wheat, or oats?
There is a Monsanto troll among us. He’s baiting everyone with the usual words. Oh and guess who it is!
Who????
I would be interested in knowing more about yourself so that could know where you are coming from. For instance are you of the belief that people should be given no control over their own destiny and happiness. Do you believe in a totalitarianism society. Where do you work and do you believe that workers should have some say in their working environment. I believe you are hiding something here. Do you have the capacity to carry on an honest discussion of the merits of a truly democratic society or are you a follower of fascism.
Wow that is alot of questions,
For instance are you of the belief that people should be given no control over their own destiny and happiness.
Yes, but they should not infringe on other peoples happiness.
Do you believe in a totalitarianism society
Nope
Where do you work and do you believe that workers should have some say in their working environment.
I am a farmer so I work for myself and I also work for others in the off seasons. Yep all workers should have a say, along with all bosses.
Do you have the capacity to carry on an honest discussion of the merits of a truly democratic society or are you a follower of fascism.
Fully democratic societies are prone to fascism, I prefer a democratic republic. A land ruled by laws, not the populus.
I tell everyone I know. And others that I don’t know in the grocery store.
Don’t buy their products and it affects their pocket books.
I boycotted Kellogg’s because Kellogg promoted circumcision back in the day, and people are still torturing their baby boys to this day because of it!
All you have to do is follow the greedy companies that are making the most money and using the cheapest worst ingredients.
FYI….Let it be known that Pepsi cola, Coca Cola and Nestle and put aborted fetal cells in all soda’s and I believe the ready made tea’s to!!! You can search it at Naturalnews dot com. If that doesn’t stop you from drinking it, your part of the problem!
“Pepsi cola, Coca Cola and Nestle and put aborted fetal cells in all soda’s and I believe the ready made tea’s to!”
>>What?!?!?! And where is the evidence to demonstrate that claim? NaturalNews is not a credible source. It’s a wing-nut libertarian blog.
Unilever may be small in the US but it is one of the biggest suppliers in Europe and the rest of the world.
It repackages it products locally in the native language so the consumer thinks they are buying a local product. What it does produce locally is the exact same item that you would find anywhere else in the world.
As has been said before: Buy locally from local supplier or make it yourself for less.
Unilever
Good work , getting this info out there .
Land O’Lakes is a member owned Co-op, hardly a corporate bully.
Can someone share alternate to these products?
Killing us softly!
Awesome article…..I always read food babe too….she’s great
KUDOS RanchLady…thumbs down hyperzombie, whoever or whatever you are…your blatant ignorance of the whole subject is revealed in your comments…go back to GMO’s 101 and do some honest research like the rest of us here. and if that’s too difficult or you’re honestly convinced they’re ok for consumption, nosh on! It’s the dietary equivalence of Russian roulette. Go ahead & be a lab rat, that’s your choice. You’re probably an advocate of obamacare as well…believing it’ll be there to rescue you from the mindless choices you’re espousing. Good health can not be attained from eating gmo toxins.
Why don’t these offending companies use their money to clean up their ingrients instead of throwing their money away? We need to continue to educate our family and friends of this travesty.
I use the Buycott app on my phone to help me keep track of the companies that I don’t want to support and those that I do. It is free from the App Store or Google Play. All of the above listed companies are going into my don’t support list.
“Modern agricultural techniques along with government subsidies have created a biological disaster, which has eliminated native plants, animals and insects upon much of the Great Planes of America”
It may be wonderful that modern agriculture has been able to increase food production using an interesting mix of (1) GMO seeds, (2) herbicides (3) insecticides and (4) ever larger and more efficient farm machinery. Foods produced from modern GMO seeds, may be as good, better or not as good for human consumption, than the old fashioned crops based on seeds derived from open pollination or old-tech hybridization methods.
What I have noticed, after observing, over time, the same historical North Dakota corn fields of the 1940’s-1950’s, compared to, these same fields, in 2013 is that these land masses are not remotely the same. Now, or in 2013, there are few wild native plant species found within or near these same fields, as it was in 1958. In 2018, we have contiguous corn fields amounting to thousands of acres, compared to the typical 30-100 acre corn fields in the 1940’s & 50’s. In 2013 (bit before & til now), GMO grain fields now possess a singular species of plant or life form. That singular plant species, corn, found on these extremely large acreages are derived from a single GMO hybrid form of corn. There are, no longer, multiple species of native plants found adjoining or among these GMO crops fields.
In the 1940’s & 50’s we used to mechanically or physically cultivate corn, in order to lesson weeds, extracting something like (70 to 95%) of the competing wild-plant forms (weeds) within these corn fields. Plus, many different kinds of crops were grown on farms with open space available for wild native plants to thrive, such as areas located within and between different crops, section lines, access roads, hay meadows and forested wind breaks. These native plants found on the typical 1940-50’s farms had many small to large habitats that supported many species of plants, insects, birds and mammals.
Now, 2018, GMO corn crops are uniformly planted upon thousand-plus acre fields, and the same for soybeans and etc. The Great Planes could now be easily categorized as a biological disaster area, as far as the historical native plant, animal and insect species are concerned, compared to biological diversity found upon these same Great Plane’s fields in the 1940’s and 1950’s. The wild or native species of plants, birds, mammals and insects have been greatly diminished, and probably the general ecological health of any particular farm, township, county, state or even the entirety of the lands within the Great Planes have been greatly diminished.
The extensive use of GMO seeds, with their inherent herbicide and pesticide properties has inflicted extensive harm upon our rural lands and their native species of insects, birds, mammals and plants. The use of modern GMO seeds and large farm equipment on large land masses may represent the largest envireonmental disaster, that has ever occurred, yet unrecognized by the public, in the history of all enviormental disasters, during the entirety of man’s lifetime on earth.
I have never been accused of being an environmentalist, I grew up on a farm in North Dakota, in the 1940’s & 50’s, spent most of my professional time as a biologist working for federal and state governments, extending from South Carolina and ending up in arctic Alaska.