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DESCRIPTION:Hi Santa Cruz GMO-Free folks,\nHope you join me and CALPIRG activists to 
 rally on Safeway to Label GMOs!\n~Tarah Locke, Founder of GMO-Free Santa 
 Cruz\n\n----------\n\nWhat: A press conference/petitioning event calling on 
 Safeway to label GMOs in their store brand products. Consumers will be 
 calling on Safeway to label their products and there is also a shareholder 
 resolution filed by Green Century Fund, which will come up at Safeway's 
 Shareholder meeting in May. We will be dropping off petitions at 10-15 
 different stores the same day.\n\nWhen:\nMarch 7th 10:30 
 am\n\nWhere:\nSanta Cruz\n2111 Mission St.\nSanta Cruz, CA 
 95060\n\nBerkeley\n1444 Shattuck Pl\nBerkeley, CA 94709\n\nSan Diego\n1702 
 Granet Ave\nSan Diego, CA 92109\n\nWho:\nActivists from CALPIRG and CALPIRG 
 Students holding signs and petitioning\nGMO-Free Santa Cruz 
 Volunteers\n\nQuick Summary\n\nOn March 8th, the anniversary of Whole 
 Foods’ decision to honor customers’ wishes and adopt labeling of all 
 products in their stores, we’ll hold press events calling on our 
 grocery-chain targets to follow suit. We’ll highlight the grassroots 
 product we’ve generated so far, and release a white paper compiling the 
 growing number of companies taking action on GMOs.\n\nBackground: On March 
 8th, 2013, Whole Foods became the first major grocery chain to commit to 
 GMO labeling of every product in its stores – a goal which it expects to 
 achieve by 2018. This is perhaps the most high-profile of a recent spate of 
 stories about companies responding to customer concerns about GMOs by 
 either adopting better disclosure policies, or removing GMO ingredients 
 from food products (for example, the removal of GMO ingredients from 
 Cheerios).\n\nThis anniversary provides a perfect opportunity for us to 
 draw media attention to our corporate campaign work – we’ll have good 
 grassroots product, including petitions and coalition partners, to add heft 
 to our call for these stores to adopt labeling. And to help show that 
 there’s a strong business case for our targets to respond to customer 
 demand, we’ll release a white paper that compiles the recent actions 
 companies have taken on GMOs, including:\n\n· General Mills taking 
 Cheerios GMO-free.\n· Post similarly going GMO-free with Grape-Nuts.\n· 
 Chiptole eliminating GMO ingredients in its 
 food.\n\n-----------------------------------------------\n\nNew 2014 
 California Label GMOs Legistlation:\nWhat you can do:\nCALL or VISIT your 
 legislator now URGING them to endorse SB 1381!\nKeep the conversation 
 going. Tell everyone you know its our fundamental right to know, giving us 
 the opportunity to make informed choices.\nVisit 
 http://labelgmos.org\n\nTarah Locke, Founder of GMO-Free Santa Cruz\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/03/04/18751948.php
SUMMARY:Rally on Mission Safeway to Label GMOs!
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Safeway\n2111 Mission St.\nSanta Cruz, CA 95060
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/03/04/18751948.php
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