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Religious Investors Urge 63 Top U.S. Restaurant, Food, Beverage, Candy Companies to Oppose Spring Planting of Genetically Modified Sugar Beets
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March 4, 2008
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Ailis Aaron Wolf, +1-703-276-3265,
aawolf@hastingsgroup.com, for Interfaith Center on Corporate
Responsibility, New York City
Dont Mess With Sugar! is Message Consumers Will Send to Companies
Positioned to Block Genetic Tinkering With Sugar; Major Brand,
Reputation and Consumer Confidence Issues Seen
NEW YORK, March 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A total of 63
leading U.S. restaurant, food, beverage and candy companies -
including such household names as McDonalds, Campbell Soup, Kellogg,
Kraft Foods, Sara Lee, PepsiCo, Wendys and Hersheys - are the focus
of a major Web-based campaign at www.DontPlantGMOBeets.orgseeking to
block the April 2008 planting of ...
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