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The Guardian: Think You’re Too Smart to Be Taken in by Silly Food Labels? Think Again

By Arwa Mahdawi – I feel it in my fingers. I feel it in my toes. Love is all around me. But it shouldn’t be in granola bowls. So says the US Food and Drug Administration,...

10/08/17Read More
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PR Week: Why Mann Packing is Removing Non-GMO Labels as Major Brands Add Them

By Diana Bradley – One year ago, Mann Packing went through the process of getting some of its vegetable products Non-GMO Project Verified. Now, the company is trying to distance itself from non-GMO labeling. The company...

10/03/17Read More
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The New Food Economy: How “Free-From” and Other Food Labels Actually Affect Us

By Patrick Clinton – What could be conceptually simpler than labeling a food product? You tell the customers what’s in the product, or maybe what’s not in it, or maybe what you did to manufacture it—or...

09/26/17Read More
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Forbes: Fake Food Update: The Latest Crisis At Your Supermarket

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”...

09/21/17Read More
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Quartz: 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...

09/07/17Read More
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Forbes: 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...

09/06/17Read More
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Ag 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...

09/05/17Read More
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USA 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.,...

09/05/17Read More
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Quartz: “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”...

09/04/17Read More
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Applied 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...

09/01/17Read More
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  • No matter if they’re chunked or sliced, the pineapple in these cans of @Doletweets is ALWAYS GMO free. Demand truth and transparency on #FoodLabels by sharing your examples! https://t.co/2GJUS7JG08 https://t.co/lkRign64DF, Sep 5
  • The amount of misleading “free-from” food labels is spiraling out of control. These salt brands are some of the most egregious examples. https://t.co/2GJUS7JG08 https://t.co/NQC8789uWT, Sep 5
  • True to its name, @leftfieldfarms marketing tactics come from out of left field. Why do they use a Non-GMO label when there is no GMO milk? To spread fear among consumers and prop up sales. https://t.co/k6ZETErG4W https://t.co/FbkaEAPf7C, Sep 4
  • When food marketers use deceptive labels, consumers lose. Food companies are misleading consumers to protect themselves. It’s time to #PeelBackTheLabel! Join us: https://t.co/7Elqjn8UBX https://t.co/4VOvlJ2kOp, Sep 4
  • It’s illegal to add hormones to pork (it even says so right on the package!), making this “No Added Hormones” label nothing but hogwash. https://t.co/Nv4RdEuJ2o https://t.co/XQ9ePGNpbf, Sep 4
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