By Larry Olmsted – There’s a new villain lurking in the aisles of your local supermarket, trying to scare you into changing brands or paying inflated prices for your groceries. It’s being called “fear based labeling”...
Read MoreQuartz: After “Gluten-Free Water,” “Free-Range Trees” is the Latest Absurd Claim to Appear on Food Packaging
By Chase Purdy – Is your dairy-free, non-GMO “milk” made from free-range trees? This one is. In the wild world of product claims, the fledgling macadamia-nut-milk industry is charging into the US market elbows out, taking...
Read MoreForbes: Stop ‘Pandering to Ignorance and Fear’: Consumers Speak Out Against Triscuit’s Non-GMO Label
By Kavin Senapathy – Classic woven wheat cracker brand Triscuit announced its new Non-GMO Project verified label across its entire portfolio of products last month, with a television ad featuring spokesperson and Saturday Night Live comic...
Read MoreAg Week: Food Labeling is a Hot Topic
By Peter Welte – When my older sister and I were kids, it was always a treat to get to stay overnight with Grandma and Grandpa Peterson. After all, they lived in the city — the...
Read MoreUSA Today: Dairy Farmers Seek End to ‘Fear-Based’ Food Labeling
By Rick Barrett – A national group with strong ties to Wisconsin dairy farms has urged food companies to stop using labels such as “GMO-free” for marketing purposes. The National Milk Producers Federation, based in Arlington, Va.,...
Read MoreQuartz: “Gluten-Free” Water Shows How Ridiculous Food Labeling Has Become
By Brandon McFadden – The food labeling craze coupled with banner headlines about the dangers of gluten, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and hormones are leading to increasingly absurd results. For example, you can now buy “premium”...
Read MoreApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy: Labeling Food Processes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
By Kent Messer, Marco Costanigro, and Harry M. Kaiser — Consumers are increasingly exposed to labels communicating specific processing aspects of food production, and recent state and federal legislation in the United States has called for making...
Read MoreGenetic Literacy Project: Study: Food Products from Livestock Raised on GMO Feed No Different Than Those Fed Conventional Grain
By Alison Van Eenennaam and Amy Young – This review summarizes the available scientific literature on the detection of dietary DNA and protein in animal products and briefly discusses the implications of mandatory GE labeling for...
Read MoreThe Washington Post: 10 Mega Myths About Farming to Remember on Your Next Grocery Run
By Jenna Gallegos – Most of us don’t spend our days plowing fields or wrangling cattle. We’re part of the 99 percent of Americans who eat food, but don’t produce it. Because of our intimate relationship with...
Read MoreBioBeef Blog: False and Misleading
By Alison Van Eenennaam – The standard for voluntary food labeling in the US is that it must be “truthful and not misleading”. I wish that was true for all speech. In this era of alternative...
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