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M & O Consumer
Action Kit








Introduction




What is genetic engineering?






Why Care?






In the Kitchen






In the Supermarket






Mothers' Milk List






On the Farm






In the Garden






Government




Sample Letters to US Government




Companies--Look Who Is Listening!




10 Largest Companies





Food, Farms, and Genetic Engineering

The 10 largest U.S. companies that make our food. . .

Write or e-mail these companies and ask them to stop using GE foods.

1) Philip Morris
Kraft Foods

1 Kraft Court
Glenview, IL 60025
800/847-1997
www.philipmorris.com
www.kraftfoods.com

Brands: Post Cereals (Grape Nuts, Honeycomb, Raisin Bran, Shredded Wheat, etc.), Kraft Foods (macaroni, cheeses, condiments, salad dressings, etc.), Maxwell House, Sanka, Starbucks, Gevalia, General Foods, International Coffee, Country Time Lemonade, Crystal Light, Kool-Aid, Tang, Capri Sun, Miracle Whip, Bull's Eye Barbecue Sauce, Altoids Mints, Toblerone, Jell-O, Taco Bell Salsa, Minute Rice, Stove Top, Velveeta, Seven Seas Dressings, Calument Baking Powder, Shake 'n Bake, Dream Whip, Di Giorno, Cracker Barrel Cheese, Athenos Feta, Polly-O Cheese, Breyer's, Knudson, Breakstone's, Oscar Mayer, Louis Rich, Claussen, Cool Whip, Jack's Pizza, Tombstone Pizza, Balance Health Bars.


2) Cargill
Cargill Office Center
PO Box 9300
Minneapolis, MN 55440-9300
800/CARGILL
www.cargill.com

Processed ingredients for food manufacture: flour, malt, cocoa, corn syrup, glucose, citric acid, corn dextrose, grits, corn meal, seed oils (sunflower, canola, flaxseed, cottonseed).

Brands: Illinois Cereal Mills, Seaforth Corn Mills, Cargill Cacau, Gerkens, Cocoa, Wilbur Chocolate Co., Excel Beef and Pork, Honeysuckle White Turkey.


3) Procter and Gamble
PO Box 599
Cincinnati, OH 45201
800/331-3774
www.pg.com

Brands: Folgers, Crisco, Jif, Millstone, Olean, Pringles, Sunny Delight
Ingredients: amines, fatty acids, fatty alcohols, glycerine, methyl esters


4) Koch Agricultural Company
4111 E. 37th Street, North
Wichita, KS 67220
316/828-5500
www.kochind.com

Foods: beef, dairy


5) The Kroger Company
1014 Vine Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
513/762-4000

Brands: Kroger, Swan Island Dairy, Clackamas Bakery, Riverside Creamery, La Habra Bakery, Compton Creamery, Tolleson, Pace Dairy, King Sooper's Bakery, Jackson Diary, America's Beverage, Vandervoort's Dairy, Tara, Kenlake, Delight, Country Oven, Crossroad Farms. Michigan Dairy, State Ave., K.B. Specialty Foods, Indianapolis Bakery, Southern Ice Cream Specialties.


6) DuPont
DuPont Agricultural Enterprises
1007 Market St.
Wilmington, DE 19898
888/638-7668
www.dupont.com

Ingredients: Supro brand soy proteins (used in health bars, meats, meat substitutes, low-fat baked goods and as a nondairy milk substitute). In joint venture with General Mills to develop new soy foods.


7) Safeway
5918 Stoneridge Mall Road
Pleasanton, CA 94588-3229
www.safeway.com

Brands: Safeway, Safeway Select Lucerne, Mrs. Wright's, Vons, Pavilions, Dominick's, Nature's Cupboard, Randall's, Tom Thumb.


8) ConAgra
1 Conagra Drive
Omaha, NE 68102
402/595-4000 www.conagra.com

Brands: Healthy Choice, Peter Pan, Wesson, La Choy, Swiss Miss, Hunt's, Marie Callender's, Van Camp's, Cook's, Butterball Turkeys, Orville Redenbacher's, Banquet, Armour Dairy, Act 22 Popcorn, County Line, Hebrew National, Country Pride, Cook Family Foods, Singleton, Jack Rabbit, Golden Valley Foods, Peavey Grain, Reddi Whip, Miss Wisconsin, Mott's, Decker, Eckrich, Swift Premium
Ingredients:flour, spices, seasonings, natural flavorings, food oils, barley malt for Budweiser, Foster's Carlsberg, Labatt's and Molson.


9) Pepsico
700 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577
www.pepsico.com 800/433-2652

Brands: Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Slice, Mug Root Beer, Aquafina Water, Frappuccino, Mirinda, Lipton, Frito-Lay (frito's Ruffles, Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Tostitos, Santitas, Rold Gold pretzels, Sun Chips, Wo! olestra chips, Cracker Jacks, Chester's Popcorn, Grandma's Cookies, Munchos, Smartfood Popcorn, Baken-ets Pork Skins, dips, salsa, Sabritas, 3Ds, Smiths, Potato Crisps, Walkers Potato Crisps), Tropicana Juices, Dole Juices, Funyons


10) Sara Lee Corporation
3 First National Plaza
Chicago, IL 60602-4260
800/621-5235
www.saralee.com

Brands: Sara Lee Baked Goods, coffees, (Meats: Aoste, Argal, Ball Park, Best's Kosher, Bil Mar, Bryan, Cochonou, Cornby, Dacor, Galileo, Hillshire Farm, Hygrade, Imperial, Jimmy Dean, Justin Bridou, Kahn's, King Cotton, Kir, Marcassou, Mr. Turkey, Nobre, Rudy's Farm, Sara Lee, Seitz, Sinai 48, Sweet Sue, State Fair, Stegeman, Brassard, Nutrine, Savane


SAMPLE LETTER TO SEND TO COMPANIES

Dear ___________,

To date, 46 genetically engineered fruits, vegetables, grains and oilseeds have been rushed into the marketplace without adequate safety testing for long-term health and environmental risks or labeling. Consumers have the right to know what is in our food. Please label any of your foods that contain genetically engineered ingredients. I look forward to hearing from you on this issue.

Sincerely,
YOUR NAME


Sources: Corporate Agribusiness Research Project by A.V. Krebs, compiled from the Forbes 500 Annual Directory, The Forbes Top 500 Private Corporations, and Forbes International 500 Companies, based on total sales in 1998.


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