Non-GMO Project
Our idea is a voluntary labeling program giving consumers the right to choose non-GMO food and products. Working with a broad range of stakeholders, we have created a consensus-based Standard and a third-party verification program for non-GMO products. A “Non-GMO Project Verified” seal will identify compliant products starting this fall.
A propos de vous
Section 1: About You
Prénom
Non-GMO
Nom
Project
Adresse électronique
URL du site Web
Organization
Non-GMO Project
Pays
États Unis
Section 2: About Your Organization
Nom
Non-GMO Project
Site Web
Téléphone
909.626.0809
Adresse
2599 Huntington Drive, Upland CA 91786
Pays
États Unis
Your idea
Name Your Project
Non-GMO Project
Country your work focuses on
États Unis
What makes your approach innovative?
We are linking everyone in the North American supply chain (from seed companies to consumers) in a comprehensive, transparent, and rigorous process to ensure the sustained availability and clear labeling of non-GMO options. This is a ground-breaking solution that has never been attempted before.
The idea was initially conceived of by a group of natural food retailers. Over and over their customers were asking how to know if a product had GMOs in it. Without a industry-wide non-GMO standard, third party verification, and consistent labeling, the retailers had no way of answering their customers' questions, and that's why the Non-GMO Project, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, was created. For the last several years, the Project's founding retailers, along with manufacturers, farmers, seed companies, distributors, processors and consumer advocacy groups have been working together to create an innovative program that provides North Americans the ability to choose verified non-GMO products.
Describe Your Idea
Our idea is a voluntary labeling program giving consumers the right to choose non-GMO food and products. Working with a broad range of stakeholders, we have created a consensus-based Standard and a third-party verification program for non-GMO products. A “Non-GMO Project Verified” seal will identify compliant products starting this fall.
How will you sustain your solution?
We have built a strong collaborative network, with over 60 people participating in the Project's governance through our Board of Directors, Technical Advisory Board, Communications Committee and Standard Committee. We also have over 30 companies all enrolled in our Product Verification Program. Having a diverse body of invested entities is central to the strength of the Project. Financially, although we have relied mostly on donations and grants until now, we are starting to see our operating expenses covered by revenue from the Product Verification Program, and that will increasingly continue to be the case. Lists of our Board and committee members, as well as all our donors, are publicly available on our website.
What will be the impact of your solution?
North Americans will no longer be the guinea pigs of GMO products, but will instead have the same right as people in Europe and elsewhere to avoid GMOs if they want to. Many people in the U.S. and Canada who don't yet know what a GMO is will learn, as they start seeing the "Non-GMO Project Verified" seal on products, and as our retailer programs reach them with education and information. Also, we have already heard from groups in countries like Brazil and Australia who are interested in using the Non-GMO Project model, and we hope to extend the program as soon as it is well established in North America.
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Great to see you enter the challenge. We should all have the right to choose what's on our plate. The Non-GMO Project will allow us to do just this!
It's so exciting to see the much needed and long awaited idea of verified non-GMO labeling starting to really happen!
On what planet do you think that the idea of non-GMO labeling is really starting to happen? It's going to take a lot more than a few votes on Changemakers, to combat the evil (yes evil) of GMO and those who produce same.
We have been working for the past 4 years on launching the Non-GMO Project, and the first "Non-GMO Project Verified" labels will start appearing in the next couple of months. Please check out our website: www.nongmoproject.org
We vote with purchase decisions. Please vote for Non-GMO food. Industrialized food is destroying Health, Happiness, and Life.
Thank you for founding the non-GMO Project. If we don't know what foods are and aren't GMO, there's no way we can vote with purchase decisions. This is a crucial first step. I love the seal too - great design!
It is a right and expectation that consumers should have knowing what is in their food. I applaud those committed to the non-GMO project and encourage all of you to increase your awareness of this issue and it's global impacts.
This is an important contributor to encourage non violent revolution as is also in progress with vaccination and corrupt medicine. Every move we can make away from corporate control in our daily lives moves the global citizenry toward unity consciousness and now is the time to do all we can.
It's so important that consumers have the right to know what they and their families are eating. I also applaud this project for tackling this denial of information. I urge everyone to vote for this important project.
I think yes people should definetely know what is in their food for sure,but we should all be avoiding GM crops right NOW in the food we eat and give to our families so that in the not too distant future the Earth will no longer be contaminated with GMO's .I urge people of all nations to print off the following flyer and hand it out to as many people as you can.Thanks.NO TO GMO!!
http://www.gmwatch.org/images/stories/10reasons.pdf
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