Blacklisted: 12 Food Companies to Avoid

Campbells - $250,000.00 Healthy Request Wolfgang Puck Soups Pace Foods Pepperidge Farms V-8 Cargill, Inc - $202,229.36 Truvia Natural Sweetener Shady Brooks Farms Diamond Crystal Salt Liza Nature Fresh Peters Chocolate Wilbur Chocolate Honeysuckle White Rumba Meats Good Nature Coca Cola - $1,164,400.00 Vitamin Water Smart Water Dasani Nestea Minute Maid Honest Tea Odwalla Vitaminenergy Con-Agra - $1,076,700.00 Orville Redenbachers Organic Hunts Organic Lightlife Alexia Healthy Choice Hebrew National Dean Foods - $253,950.00 Horizon

Silk White Wave General Mills - $908,200.00 Nature Valley Fiber One Cheerios Cascadian Farm Muir Glen Lrabar Gold Medal Organic Food Should Taste Good

Heinz/Hains Celestial - $500,000.00 (Hains is actually owned by Heinz, Phillip Morris, Monsanto, Citigroup, Exxon-Mobil, Wal-Mart and Lockheed Martin) Earths Best Spectrum Organics Garden of Eatin Casbah Rice Dream Soy Dream WestSoy TofuTown MaraNatha Mountain Sun Walnut Acres Fruiti di Bosco Health Valley Bearitos Bread Shop Celestial Seasonings Kelloggs - $632,500.00 Kashi Muslix Nutrigrain Bear Naked Morningstar Farms Gardenburger

Kraft - $551,148.25 Snapple ReaLemon Triscuit SnackWells South Beach Boca Back to Nature Nabisco Nestle - $1,169,400.00 (Remember this is the company the CEO doesn't think common folk deserves water) Pure Life Pelligrino Perrier Poland Spring Gerber California Pizza Kitchen Tribe Mediterranean Sweet Leaf Tea PepsiCo $2,249,661.61 Miss Vickies Sun Chips Aquafina SoBe Harvest Crunch Dole Ocean Spray Tropicana Miranda Tazo Quaker Naked Juice Mothers Unilever $467,000 (source) Salada Knorr Ben & Jerrys

A little bit of good news There are a few companies you can still count on

It isnt all bad news. There are a few companies you can still count on keep in mind that corporate mergers take place every day. When businesses change hands, there is no obligation to notify the public. One such cautionary tale took place with the company Deans, which acquired Horizon Foods. They quietly phased out the use of organic products without making any changes to the label and used nonorganic milk produced under factory farm conditions. As well, they dropped the quality of their organic soy and began purchasing cheaper harvests from Asia. Meanwhile, unwitting retailers had no idea that the company had ceased producing the items organically, and continued to promote the products as they had previous to the acquisition. Right now, these are some of the GOOD LABELS to look for: 7th Generation Amys Kitchens Apple and Eve Applegate Azumaya Blue Diamond Bobs Red Mill Bossa Nova Cal Organics Cedarlane Cell-nique Choice Organic Teas Clif Bar/ Nectar Fruit Coombs Family Farmers Cosorzio All Natural Country Choice Crystal Geyser Alpine Water Doctor Kracker Dr. McDougalls Dr. Praeger Eat Raw Echo Farms EcoMeal Eddies Pasta Eden Foods (The only company NOT using harmful plastic in the lining of their cans as bonding agent!) Edward and Sons Endangered Species Chocolate Ener-G EnvironKiz Fantastic Foods. Giving Nature

Golden Temple Go Naturally Greenway Farms Harvest Bay Hawthorne Valley Ians Natural Foods Koyo Organics Lakewood Lesser Evil Lets DoOrganics LifeStream Living Harvest Lundberg Family Madhava Murrays Chicken Nasoya Native Forest Natural by Nature Nature Factor Natures Path Newmans Own Organic Organic Prarie Organic Valley Pacific Naturals Pamelas Peace Cereal Petalumi Rapunzel Real Foods Republic of Teas Roads End Organics San J Sensible Foods Seven Star Farms Sunergia Tasty Bite Indian Terra Nostra Texmati Theo chocolates Think Organic Turtle Island Tofurky Vermont Mystic Pie

Vitasoy Vita Spelt Vivani Chocolate Wizards Saucery Woodstock Farms XOXOXO chocolate Yogi Tea Zija Zoes Granola More on this article: http://eatlocalgrown.com/article/11357-blacklisted-12-food-companies-toavoid.html