{"id":23280,"date":"2011-03-15T17:13:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T21:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/23280\/warning-food-products-supermarkets\/"},"modified":"2011-03-15T17:13:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T21:13:53","slug":"warning-food-products-supermarkets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/23280\/warning-food-products-supermarkets\/","title":{"rendered":"WARNING ON FOOD PRODUCTS IN SUPERMARKETS"},"content":{"rendered":"

WARNING ON FOOD PRODUCTS IN SUPERMARKETS

AfSD\u2122(ADVOCATE FOR SAVING DOGS\u2122)<\/a>
Protect Animals<\/p>\n

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WARNING ON FOOD PRODUCTS IN SUPERMARKETS<\/font><\/b><\/div>\n

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Dear consumer,<\/p>\n

Supermarkets and the food industry want you to believe their products are good for you, nature and environment. But please don\u2019t be misled. Almost all non-organic meat, eggs and dairy sold in supermarkets comes from animals fed on genetically modified (GM) soy. That\u2019s important for you to know, but it\u2019s not on the label. Even worse, this soy will soon be called \u2018responsible\u2019<\/b> The label has been developed by the Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS)<\/b>. The RTRS consists mainly of companies that have a strong interest in expanding the soy industry.
Members range from soy producers and grain dealers to the biotech, pesticide, animal feed and oil sectors. They include BP, Shell, Cargill, Bayer, Syngenta, and Monsanto. A few NGOs (An organization that is not part of the local, state or federal government) are also on board, notably the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/b>The scheme will not reduce the massive pesticide use that poisons people and the environment in South America. It will not stop land conflicts. It will not even stop deforestation. It will definitely not reduce soy imports. But it will create a \u2018green\u2019 label for GM crops. <\/font><\/div>\n

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For the first time, a genetically modified crop, designed to be sprayed with massive amounts of pesticides, will be labelled \u2018responsible\u2019. That is why environmental and social organisations are writing to supermarkets and food companies, asking them not to mislead their customers.<\/font><\/div>\n

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We \u2013 Friends of the Earth International, the Global
Forest Coalition, Rettet den Regenwald (Rainforest Rescue), European Coordination Via Campesina, Food and Water Europe and many others \u2013 strongly oppose the RTRS\u2019s attempt to greenwashing soy. We want to reduce Europe\u2019s dependence on imported soy and call for radical changes in the way food is produced.<\/p>\n

Please join us and tell the supermarkets that you don\u2019t accept the RTRS\u2019s misleading label. Sign the form and your message will be sent to supermarkets and food companies all over Europe. Please distribute this action widely and inform your friends as well. Thank you very much for your support.<\/font><\/div>\n

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Take action here:<\/b><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.toxicsoy.org\/toxicsoy\/Action\/action.html<\/a><\/font><\/div>\n

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This year a new label wil be launched for so-called ‘responsible’ soy. However, the criteria proposed by the Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS) do not guarantee any level of ‘responsibility’. Soy monocultures can still expand at the expense of forest and small farms; massive pesticide spraying\u2026<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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WARNING ON FOOD PRODUCTS IN SUPERMARKETS AfSD\u2122(ADVOCATE FOR SAVING DOGS\u2122)Protect Animals WARNING ON FOOD PRODUCTS IN SUPERMARKETS Dear consumer, Supermarkets and the food industry want you to believe their products are good for you, nature and environment. But please don\u2019t be misled. Almost all non-organic meat, eggs and dairy sold in supermarkets comes from animals […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}