Silk controversy continues..

[Guest guest]

Cornucopia Institute Provides Further Clarification on Silk Importation of

Soybeans from China

 http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_18064.cfm 

 

    Silk has dramatically scaled back on production of its organic products, and

many consumers, who are long time fans of the Silk products, have not noticed

that the majority of these items are no longer certified organic. As always, we

ask consumers to look for the USDA seal on products they are assuming are

organic. Secondly, the Cornucopia report suggests Silk is importing a portion of

its soybeans from China. The Dean Foods website claims its soybeans are 100%

U.S. grown.  Mark Kastel of the Cornucopia Institute has elaborated on the

report to provide some clarity to our readers.

 

    " Recently, Dean Foods reformulated their Silk product line changing almost

all their products over to " natural " (conventional) soybeans. They did this,

quietly, without telling retailers or changing the UPC code numbers on the

products. Many retailers reported that they didn't find out until their

customers noticed and complained.

   

 To add insult to injury, not only did the price of Silk products not go down

when they converted to cheaper conventional soybeans, but they now reintroduced

three products with organic soybeans and raised the price on those.  Greedy

profiteering plain and simple " .

[Guest guest]

This whole thing just makes me angry. Unfortunately I'm one of the people who

didn't notice the change. I've been buying Silk since 2005 when I found out I

was allergic to milk. I went and tried every brand of milk substitute I could

find and Silk is definitely the best tasting. I have been so used to the USDA

organic label that I didn't even see that it was gone until I heard about this

Dean Foods thing a week ago. Then I checked the silk in my fridge I was just

floored. As much as I love Silk I will not buy from them any more. Have of the

reason I would Silk was to support organic and wind powered industry. Is Dean

Foods even continuing the wind powered aspect of it?

 

 

vegan-network , Anouk <zurumato wrote:

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> Cornucopia Institute Provides Further Clarification on Silk Importation of

Soybeans from China

>  http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_18064.cfm 

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>     Silk has dramatically scaled back on production of its organic products,

and many consumers, who are long time fans of the Silk products, have not

noticed that the majority of these items are no longer certified organic. As

always, we ask consumers to look for the USDA seal on products they are assuming

are organic. Secondly, the Cornucopia report suggests Silk is importing a

portion of its soybeans from China. The Dean Foods website claims its soybeans

are 100% U.S. grown.  Mark Kastel of the Cornucopia Institute has elaborated on

the report to provide some clarity to our readers.

>

>     " Recently, Dean Foods reformulated their Silk product line changing almost

all their products over to " natural " (conventional) soybeans. They did this,

quietly, without telling retailers or changing the UPC code numbers on the

products. Many retailers reported that they didn't find out until their

customers noticed and complained.

>    

>  To add insult to injury, not only did the price of Silk products not go down

when they converted to cheaper conventional soybeans, but they now reintroduced

three products with organic soybeans and raised the price on those.  Greedy

profiteering plain and simple " .

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