Beyond. Health and Wellness Magazine July 2016 | Page 21

Go to 36:21 in the video to watch
Whole Foods CEO Walter
Robb talk just like a Monsanto
operative, claiming the Vermont
labeling law is too complex to
follow and therefore a federal
labeling compromise needs
to become law (even if it only
requires labeling in machine
code that’s unreadable by
humans): (bolding added)

create some sort of a reasonable
standard that manufacturers can...
and gives the customer a lot more
information is a pretty good thing.
Walter Robb, in other words,
loves the idea that the new
federal mandate would “give
manufacturers choice” instead of
requiring mandatory, clear labeling.
And he praises the compromise just
as Monsanto operatives do. It’s a
huge WIN for Monsanto, and Whole
Foods CEO Walter Robb just can’t
praise it enough!

Question: What’s your take on is this
a bill that should get passed or not?
Whole Foods CEO Walter Robb:
My view on the bill is that, and I’m
pretty intimately aware of it, is that
I think it’s an incredible thing that
Sen. Stabenow has put together
with Sen. Robert, when you take a
look at the atmosphere up there on Capitol Hill,
that this much was accomplished together.
Whether it passes or not is an open question
of the next couple of weeks. The alternative is
that Vermont goes into effect and then there’s a
number of other states behind that, it makes it
difficult for manufacturers to be able to label and
label to that different standard... and frankly the
Vermont bill while it’s... the national bill would
have never happened if Vermont had not passed.
There just wouldn’t have been the pressure...
it’s a very imperfect bill. It doesn’t cover a lot of
products, there’s gaps and inconsistencies that
ultimately are probably better addressed through
some sort of a national standard.
And I think the way she’s put the bill together,
which is to give manufacturers choices, is I
think the marketplace and the customers will
take it from here... so obviously, I think she’s
done a great piece of work... we are already
are out there further with our commitment to
full transparency by 2018. We’re not gonna...
we’re looking at how these two live with
each other, but we’re already past that, but I
think in this day and age, to come together, to

ACTION ITEM: Go to the
Whole Foods Facebook page
now and tell them to stop lying
Click here for the Whole Foods
Facebook page. Tell them to stop
lying to their customers. Walter Robb has been
caught red-handed, on video, admitting to his
support for the Monsanto GMO “fake labeling”
law. Yet the Whole Foods social media people
just keep on LYING, hoping nobody will notice...

Indisputable FACTS about the Whole
Foods supported law: It would kill the
existing Vermont labeling law (and worse)
Even the Politico story was very mild in its
description of what this Monsanto / Whole
Foods law actually does. Here are some
irrefutable facts about the new law:
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The new law would immediately kill the Vermont
GMO labeling law due to kick in this Friday,
denying the citizens of Vermont the right to know
whether they are eating GMOs.
It would permanently outlaw state GMO labeling
laws nationwide.
It allows NO LABELING for up to two years while the
USDA figures out what sort of labeling to require.
It gives food manufacturers “choices” to use nonhuman-readable labels that can only be read by bar
code scanners. This allows food companies to hide
the truth about GMOs behind digital machine code.
It does not require the GMO labeling of meats or dairy
products from animals raised entirely on GMO feed.

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