{"id":6347,"date":"2012-01-24T17:50:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T17:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/?p=6347"},"modified":"2012-01-24T17:52:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T17:52:30","slug":"whole-foods-sells-out-to-monsanto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/whole-foods-sells-out-to-monsanto\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole Foods Sells out to Monsanto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whole Foods Market, while proclaiming their support for organics and &#8220;seed purity,&#8221; gave the green light to USDA bureaucrats to approve the &#8220;conditional deregulation&#8221; of Monsanto&#8217;s genetically engineered, herbicide-resistant alfalfa.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 2\/3 of the products sold by Whole Foods Market and their main distributor, United Natural Foods (UNFI) are not certified organic, but rather are conventional (chemical-intensive and GMO-tainted) foods and products disguised as &#8220;natural.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whole Foods and UNFI are maximizing their profits by selling quasi-natural products at premium organic prices. Organic consumers are increasingly left without certified organic choices while genuine organic farmers and ranchers continue to lose market share to &#8220;natural&#8221; imposters. It&#8217;s no wonder that less than 1% of American farmland is certified organic, while well-intentioned but misled consumers have boosted organic and &#8220;natural&#8221; purchases to $80 billion annually-approximately 12% of all grocery store sales.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rickthehealthsleuth.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/whole-foods-sells-out-to-monsanto.html\">http:\/\/rickthehealthsleuth.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/whole-foods-sells-out-to-monsanto.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whole Foods Market, while proclaiming their support for organics and &#8220;seed purity,&#8221; gave the green light to USDA bureaucrats to approve the &#8220;conditional deregulation&#8221; of Monsanto&#8217;s genetically engineered, herbicide-resistant alfalfa. Approximately 2\/3 of the products sold by Whole Foods Market and their main distributor, United Natural Foods (UNFI) are not \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/whole-foods-sells-out-to-monsanto\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":449,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,12,4,7,13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecology","category-economy","category-food","category-health","category-human-rights","category-people","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6349,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions\/6349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}