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31 May 2014

You may never eat Chobani yogurt again. Chobani: Stop making yogurt with GMO-laden milk now. 24MAI14


I love Chobani Greek yogurt, but not gmo products. Chobani has the chance to do the right thing here, and they will remove gmo milk from their products if enough of us tell them to. Click the link and sign the petition from +SumOfUs .org .....
Chobani makes “all natural” Greek yogurt with milk from cows fed with genetically modified (GMO) grain, and it’s about to expand its operation.

Tell Chobani to stop using GMO-laden milk now.

Sign the Petition

This doesn’t taste good: “All natural” Chobani makes Greek yogurt with milk from cows that are fed genetically modified (GMO) grain.
It may sound surprising, but actually, this isn’t news at all - Chobani always has. What’s worrisome now, however, is that it has just secured a loan to the tune of $750 million to expand its operations, which means it will be fuelling even more money into the GMO industry.
As the biggest producer of Greek yogurt in the US, Chobani is missing a tremendous opportunity to support milk producers who feed their cows with natural feed, and with that, to transform dairy production. Before Chobani throws millions of dollars at GMO grain producers, we have the chance to tell Chobani what we don’t want in our yogurt.
Tell Chobani to stop making yogurt with GMO-laden milk now.
Chobani claims that the only way it can produce enough yogurt to supply the booming market is by using milk from GMO-fed cows. But this decision is already hurting its business: In December of 2013, Whole Foods announced that it was going to stop selling Chobani in 2014 as part of an effort to stop selling GMO foods that aren’t labeled as such.
The bank accounts of Chobani’s executives are the only things that benefit from the decision to support GMOs. The effects GMO grain has on the environment and on the animals that eat it are tragic, and the long term health consequences for those who consume GMOs are still unknown.
Let’s tell Chobani: We’d love your yogurt more if it was GMO-free! Stop using milk from cows fed with GMO grain now.
This is not the first time big agribusiness has stepped over the line and we’ve pushed them back. Recently, Kellogg’s agreed to eliminate deforestation from their supply chains. We’re fighting Bayer and Syngenta in their attempts to overturn Europe’s ban on bee-killing pesticides. And we have bought a small, strategic stake in Monsanto so that we can speak out as shareholders ourselves.
The general shift to GMOs in our food only gives more power to huge GMO corporations like Monsanto, who have an ever increasing amount of control over our food supply, and what we put in our bodies. Stopping Chobani using GMO-laden milk may be a first step in taking that control back. 
Thanks for everything you do,
Kaytee, Hanna and the rest of us

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More information:
Seeking to Grow, Chobani Secures $750 Million Loan. The New York Times, April 23, 2014.
Chobani vs. Whole Foods over GMOs. Politico, December 23, 2013.

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