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Food Issues: Boycotts and petitions

People ask us all the time about food action issues like boycotts and petition drives and these are important issues to us. We are all about food safety, nutrition, sustainablility and keeping our owners informed here. After all as a natural foods coop, we are driven by and committed to the seven coop principles (you can read them here).

But being a co-op means that we are a family of diverse voices. We currently have more than 16,000 owners, who elect and are represented by a nine-person board of directors. The diverse needs and views of that family are obvious in our wide product selection – organic foods are incredibly important to some, as are vegan products to others and locally-sourced foods to others.

So, instead of pulling products that are the target of boycotts or telling you what to think about an issue, we’d rather provide you with the resources and tools to make your own decision. Yeah, it’s another of those co-op principles at work: empowering you to take more control over the foods you consume (Principle 4).

We’ll try to keep you posted about food issues here on the website.

Petition: Demand the FDA withdraw the New Dietary Ingredient Draft Guidance (posted November 30, 2011)

The FDA is making its most serious attempt in 17 years to dramatically limit access to dietary supplements by trying to require all supplements sold after October 1994 to be registered as New Dietary Ingredients (NDIs). This registration process would be extremely expensive and will limit the kinds of products that can be sold. If the NDIs are adopted in their current form, prices for dietary supplements will skyrocket, the range of products currently available will significantly dwindle, and the innovation the dietary supplement industry has been known for will be decimated. READ MORE and SIGN THE PETITION.

Petition: Halt the sale and planting of GMO alfalfa and sugar beets

Several groups are collecting signatures on a petition to US Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsack, asking the Obama administration to halt the sale and planting of GMO alfalfa and sugar beets.

1) Food Democracy Now

2) Food and Water Watch