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Kraft

Kraft Foods is the largest food and beverage company headquartered in North America and second largest in the world, marketing many popular brands in more than 155 countries.

As You Sow and ICCR members are in a multi-year dialogue with Kraft Foods. As You Sow helped develop financial risk materials such as the 2003 report "Risky Business: Financial Risks that Genetically Engineered Foods Pose to Kraft Inc and Shareholders."

Recent dialogues with the company have focused on Kraft becoming an industry leader and Kraft has lobbied for such policies as:

  • Standardized GE sampling methodologies
  • monitoring of health and ecological impacts
  • Opposition to "partial approvals" (products allowed for animal feed but not for humans)
  • Opposition to plant made pharmaceutical and industrial products in food crops

Kraft has also agreed to shareholder requests to:

  • Increase transparency on its web sites
  • Provide information on its sourcing
  • Provide more diverse points of views and reports on the website


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