By Michael Tabb — We’re surrounded by information about the health and nutritional benefits of different food, but a lot of it conflicts—and it’s leaving people more confused than ever about how to make healthy food...
Read MoreLos Angeles Times: Milk, Salads, Kitty Litter, Condoms: ‘Non-GMO’ Labels Sow Confusion
By Geoffrey Mohan – Clover Sonoma dairy has long cultivated a dual image of folksy kitsch and foodie trend-spotting. While its cartoon mascot, Clo the Cow, cracked tortured puns on billboards along U.S. 101, the Bay Area’s...
Read MoreMilwaukee Journal Sentinel: Dairy Industry Group Continues to Attack Food Companies Over Alleged ‘Fear-Based’ Labeling
By Rick Barrett – A dairy industry group with strong ties to Wisconsin has added more examples to its list of what the group says is “fear-based” food labeling. The latest examples range from “non-GMO” labels...
Read MoreFood Chemical News: Campaign Against ‘Fear-based’ Labeling Adds Big Names to the List
By William G Schulz – A campaign to stop “fear-based” food labeling, called “Peel Back the Label,” has added food companies Perdue, Tysons, Living Fresh, Cuties, and Del Monte to its hall of shame. The companies have...
Read MoreThe 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,...
Read MorePR 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreForbes: 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”...
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...
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