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A photo of a sign explaining why Kashi cereal products were pulled from the shelves of a natural foods retailer has sparked an angry consumer backlash aimed at Kashi for its use of suspect cereal ingredients.

The sign appeared in the aisles of the Green Grocer, based in Portsmouth, R.I. Owner John Wood read a report from The Cornucopia Institute, Cereal Crimes, that detailed the use of GMO grains and the presence of pesticide residues found on conventional grains that were then packaged as "natural" cereals for sale, by Kashi, to health-conscious consumers.

Kashi, one of the nation's leading "natural" brands, owned by Kellogg, was one of the brands featured in the report. Cereal Crimes contrasts the natural cereals with certified organic cereals which prohibit genetically modified grains and synthetic pesticides in organic food production.

Last week images of the sign went viral on the web. More than 11,000 "shares" from just one of many Facebook pages spread across the web, and angry consumers began calling and writing Kashi and posting comments on the company's Facebook page expressing their outrage at being misled by the company's marketing spin.

"Had I known I was buying a product that was like all the others in the "normal" cereal aisle". I would have never purchased it and I certainly would not have paid the high prices!!!! It disgusts me," wrote one consumer, on Kashi's Facebook page. "Yours is the only brand cereal I have bought for years. Not anymore! You are despicable. Everything you supposedly stand for is a lie," added another angry consumer, among the scores commenting.

For a period of time on Wednesday, April 25, Kashi's consumer call-in line provided only a recorded message, indicating they were "temporarily" not accepting calls. When the company again began accepting calls, a Kashi consumer affairs employee, Rick Duran, told a Cornucopia staff member that "no actual testing" of their cereal products had been performed. This mimicked the analysis also offered in a response by the company in an online video posted that same afternoon on the Kashi Facebook page. The video spokesperson called Cornucopia's information "scientifically inaccurate and misleading because it was not based on actual testing of Kashi products."

"This characterization of our work by Kashi is blatantly false," said Will Fantle, Cornucopia's Research Director. "We purchased a readily available box of Kashi's GoLean - cereal from a Whole Foods store. We then sent a sample to an accredited national lab for testing, finding that the soy in the natural cereal was 100% GMO."

The Kashi video also suggested, disingenuously, that any genetically engineered contamination in their food was from incidental sources rather than crops intentionally grown from GMO seed. While acknowledging that over 80% of the soybeans grown in North America are GMO, they explain that, "practices in agricultural storage, handling, and shipping, have lead to an environment where GMOs are not sufficiently controlled."

Source: No wonder Monsanto doesn't want people to know what is in the food they buy/eat because of backlash just like this
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Angry-C...8-205.html

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Note:

Never eat soy! The human body is not geared for it's consumption.

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Ahanata  Wrote:

Note:

Never eat soy! The human body is not geared for it's consumption.

Never eat soy....unless it's fermented.

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5 Stars

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I never bought it because of their ads.

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You can get 'Nature's Path' which is both organic and no GMO. Some of their cereals have that God damn Soy in it so check the label.

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TRIPLE WHAMMY

NOT ORGANIC

GOT SOY IN IT

AND ITS GMO.

LIES

AND

DECEPTION.

GL

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This is why we can't have nice things.

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I haven't researched this place for GMO, but worth a look:

http://www.bobsredmill.com/

The vend to some health food stores, and you can buy online.

My dad buys their stuff. I don't know if it's GMO or not.

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I certainly feel let down.

RIP Karen AKA SweetJane

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Light Identifies Genetically Modified Food: Bioluminescent Technology For Easy Tracking Of GMO

It is important to be able to monitor genetically modified (GM) crops, not only in the field but also during the food processing chain. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Biotechnology shows that products from genetically modified crops can be identified at low concentration, using bioluminescent real time reporter (BART) technology and loop mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP). The combination of these techniques was able to recognise 0.1% GM contamination of maize, far below the current EU limit of 0.9%.

In agriculture GM crops have been bred to improve crop yield or viability. For example some are resistant to herbicides or viruses. They are also used in the pharmaceutical industry to produce proteins such as collagen. However there is a constant debate about the safety of these crops and whether the man-made transgenes might enter the wild population by cross-fertilization.and produce herbicide resistant weeds.

Dr Guy Kiddle from Lumora, who led the research, explained that LAMP-BART was able to detect as little as 0.1% GM contamination of maize, and, compared to PCR, was more tolerant of contaminating polysaccharides, meaning that the DNA clean-up process did not need to be as thorough. He commented, "This method requires only basic equipment for DNA extraction, and a constant temperature for DNA amplification and detection. Consequently LAMP-BART provides a 'field-ready' solution for monitoring GM crops and their interaction with wild plants or non-GM crops."

Source: Pretty Damn Bad Ass Information
http://www.nanopatentsandinnovations.blogspot.c​om

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Luvapottamus  Wrote:

I haven't researched this place for GMO, but worth a look:

http://www.bobsredmill.com/

The vend to some health food stores, and you can buy online.

My dad buys their stuff. I don't know if it's GMO or not.

"Are your products genetically modified?

No. All of our products originate from identity-preserved, non-GMO seeds. This means that the seed planted in the ground is non-GMO. We do not guarantee the complete absence of GMO materials in our products because of wind drify, pollinators and our lack of testing equipment." http://www.bobsredmill.com/faq.html#GP4

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Boycott all cereal, you'll feel better.

http://themommybowl.com/2010/07/18/break...addiction/

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To the corporate whore GMO mole down-rating this thread, f*ck YOU!
Sincerely,
the nro

RIP Karen AKA SweetJane

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only some of Kashi's are non-gmo verified.

the following Kashi products have been verified non-gmo

7 Whole Grain Flakes
7 Whole Grain Pilaf
7 Whole Grain Puffs
Autumn Wheat
Cinnamon Harvest
Island Vanilla
Strawberry Fields