GE Free Markets Coalition

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Greenpeace, GE Free Markets Coalition

Announce 2002 Supermarket Campaign Targets!

 

 

Since the November 2001 victory in which Trader Joe's

agreed to use non-GMO ingredients in its store brand

products, we have heard from thousands of you with

suggestions on what supermarket chain we should

focus on next. Your votes are in!

 

After getting responses from the company letters you sent us and

researching the companies, our 2002 supermarket campaign will focus

on two chains, Safeway and Shaw's / Star Market.

 

Why these two supermarkets?

 

** Safeway **

The third largest food retailer has refused to meet with Greenpeace

to discuss how to source non-GMO food ingredients in its store

brands while claiming to care about their environmental record.

 

Safeway owns Vons, Genuardi's, Dominick's, Carr's, Randalls

Pavilions, Tom Thumb and Pak'n Save Foods.

 

Find out more about Safeway and what you can do:

http://www.truefoodnow.org/take_action/supermarket2002.html#safeway

 

** Shaw's/Star market **

 

This New England chain is owned by Sainsbury's markets in the UK.

Sainsbury's does not use GE ingredients in their products sold in

Britain, yet they continue to use GE food in their U.S. products.

 

 

Want to help end this double-standard? Find out more:

http://www.truefoodnow.org/take_action/supermarket2002.html#shaws

 

 

Take Action! Send a letter to Safeway and Shaw's asking them

to commit to using non-GMO ingredients in their store brands:

http://www.truefoodnow.org/bin/takeaction.fpl?action_id=114

 

 

Members of the GE Free market Coalition will also lend support for

several regional supermarket campaigns.

 

They include:

A & P Markets (also known as Food Emporium)

Publix

Food Lion

 

Greenpeace, True Food Network activists and the members of the

GE Free Markets Coalition will demand that these stores remove

genetically engineered food from their store brand products.

 

 

Don't have a Safeway or Shaw's/Star Market outlet in your area? Get

information on how you can wage your own supermarket campaign with our

2002 Supermarket Activist Kit!

 

http://www.truefoodnow.org/take_action/supermarket2002.html#other

 

 

 

** Participate In the National Campaign Launch **

 

Save these dates:

 

-- Tuesday March 12th on the East Coast U.S.

-- Wednesday, March 13th in the Midwest U.S.

-- Thursday, March 14th on the West Coast U.S.

 

For more information about events in your area, send an e-mail to:

jeanne.merrill

 

Please include in your e-mail where you live and if you are able

to download leaflets from the web and pass them out at a

supermarket near you.