PRESS ADVISORY

 

For Immediate Release: May 20, 2011

CONTACT:

Alexis Baden-Mayer: 202-744-0853

 

ATTENTION:

Photo Desk, Food and Consumer Affairs Reporters
                         

WHAT:

          

Activists will dump Genetically Engineered (GE)
Food and hold a press event in front of the University

Trader Joe’s Market.

Consumers will tell Trader Joe’s to stop selling unlabeled
foods containing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). This is part of a
growing national Truth-in-Labeling movement.

 

WHEN:

           May 24^th,
Noon

 

WHERE:

         Trader Joe’s, 4555
Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle

 

FACT:

The
overwhelming majority of non-organic processed foods currently sold in the U.S.
contain unlabeled Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) derived from GE
soybeans, corn, canola, sugar beets, cottonseed oil, or growth hormones. In
addition, according to USDA statistics, most non-organic meat, dairy, and eggs
are currently produced on factory farms or CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding
Operations), where the intensively confined animals are routinely fed GMO soy
or corn, and injected or fed GM hormones, antibiotics, and vaccines.

 

Trader Joe’s claims that all products under
Trader Joe’s private label are sourced from non-genetically modified
ingredients. However, Trader Joe’s makes no claims that any of the other
non-organic foods in their stores are GMO-free.