GMO Free News: Warning: Your Valentine's Day Treats May Be Filled With GMOs - PR Newswire

Thursday, February 7, 2013

Warning: Your Valentine's Day Treats May Be Filled With GMOs - PR Newswire - The Sacramento Bee

Warning: Your Valentine's Day Treats May Be Filled With GMOs - PR Newswire - The Sacramento Bee

USNewswire/ -- What will you get for your loved one this Valentine's Day? If genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in chocolates are not on your shopping list, you will want to know about GMO Inside's new push to get the nation's largest candy manufacturers—Hershey and Mars—to break up with GMOs in 2013.

GMO Inside, a campaign dedicated to advancing the right of consumers to know whether or not foods are genetically engineered, is calling on Hershey and Mars to either stop putting GMOs in Valentine's candy and other products … or to start labeling the products as containing GMOs.

Hershey and Mars combined comprise nearly 70 percent of the U.S. chocolate market. The two companies are not shy about their love affair with GMOs; together they spent more than a million dollars to oppose GMO labeling in California in the November 2012 election. Hershey is reported to have spent $518,900 to defeat Prop 37 and Mars spent $498,350.

The reason these companies oppose GMO labeling so strongly is due to the fact that GMO ingredients are in their sweets; a label would surely make a consumer think twice about eating their favorite candy bar.
For example, these popular candies contain the following GMO-risk ingredients: Reese's Peanut Butter filled Hearts (Hershey) contain sugar, soy lecithin, and cornstarch Hershey Hugs contain sugar, soy lecithin and corn syrup solids Valentine's Colored M&M's (Mars) contain sugar, soy lecithin, cornstarch, and corn syrup Valentine's Snickers (Mars) contain soy lecithin, corn syrup, sugar, and partially hydrogenated soybean oil

GMO Inside also released a "Valentine's Day Villains" shopping guide for consumers who want to avoid GMO treats for their Valentines. Go to www.GMOinside.org to get a list of candies to watch out for and also some non-GMO alternatives for your loved one.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/02/07/5172820/warning-your-valentines-day-treats.html#storylink=cpy

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