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GMO Inside: With a Social Media Policy Like Smuckers, a Comment Has To Be Good … Or It’s Gone

Company Spending $640,000 to Block Consumers’ Right to Know If GMOs Are In Food Also Censors Consumers Talking About GMOs on Social Media

November 3, 2014

WASHINGTON D.C - November 3, 2014 - Green America’s GMO Inside campaign is calling out the J.M. Smucker Company (Smucker’s) for removing anti-GMO posts and posts critiquing the company’s funding of opposition to GMO labeling ballot initiatives in Oregon and Colorado. 

Green America: Apple Takes First Steps to Protect Workers from Toxins

Apple responds to over 23,000 comments from concerned consumers. More needs to be done to protect workers.

August 14, 2014

Washington, DC – August 14, 2014 –Green America announced today that it is pleased with Apple’s August 13 announcement that it is taking first steps to protect the workers who make their products from dangerous chemical exposures. Apple announced that it is banning the use of benzene and n-hexane in the final assembly of its products. 

Whole Foods Drops Hershey’s Scharffen Berger Chocolates Over Child Labor Issues

WASHINGTON, DC -- Whole Foods Market (NYSE: WFM) locations around the country will be removing one of  Hershey’s high end products-- Scharffen Berger chocolate-- from  shelves across the country by the end of the year due to Hershey’s failure to assure that the cocoa is sourced without the use of forced child labor.