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Organic Food Companies Who Sold Out

The food giants quickly realized there was a high demand for organic products, which also meant there was an enormous amount of money to be made selling it, so they set out to take over the industry - one cool company at a time. As a result, over 80% of organic companies are now owned by mega corporations. These corporations buy their organics from third world countries where organic laws do not apply.

Here are some of the companies whose sell-out came at quite a surprise:

1. Annie’s (known for their mac-n-cheese) was bought by General Mills in late summer 2014. This company uses a lot of non-organic cheese products and does not state whether the cheese comes from cows that were fed GMOs.

2. Applegate Farms, the top distributor of organic meat to the U.S., was sold to Hormel (one of the most egregiously pro-GMO meat companies out there) in 2015.

3. Cascadian Farm has been around for so long, you can’t help but think it’s a trusted source of organic products, but it was actually bought out by General Mills in 1999. They were quick to triple the sugar content in their once “no added sugars” cereals.

4. Silk, although found in the health food section of most stores, they are not exactly organic… When the company was acquired by WhiteWave, a spin-off company of the massive pro-GMO corporation Dean Foods, they actually switched from non-GMO to GMO soybeans without telling their customers!

5. Earthbound Farms, the largest supplier of organic produce in the U.S., was also purchased by WhiteWave back in 2013.

6. R.W. Knudson’s is another one of those companies who has been around forever, but what most don’t realize is the organic juice maker is owned by Smucker’s, who publicly supports the use of GMOs.

7. Dagoba Chocolate is branded to look like a cool, independent company, but it’s actually owned by the chocolate giant Hershey’s.

8. Stonyfield Organic Yogurt Yes - Stonyfield! They are owned by the Danone Group of France, makers of Dannon yogurt, Brown Cow yogurt, and Evian water.

9. Honest Tea & Odwalla Honestly, I could not believe either of these companies sold-out to Coca Cola.

10. Horizon was scooped up by WhiteWave and are now subject to many complaints and investigations alleging they’re more of a factory farm type of operation than an “organic” company.

11. Dave’s Killer Bread is the latest great company to sell out for a whopping $275 million dollars. Basically Dave Dahl handed over his baby to the pro-GMO food corporation Flowers Food (owners of Wonder Bread) so he could “sit back and relax”. When asked in a recent interview: “What do you tell the folks who say Killer Dave sold out?” He responded: “That’s what I did,” “That’s what we did.”

12. Morning Star, Kashi, and Bear Naked are all owned by food giant Kellogg’s.

13. Boca and back to Nature are both owned by Kraft

14. Tom’s of Maine is actually under Colgate.

15. Burt’s Bees was once as independent as independent could be - that is until the company was sold to Clorox.

16. Garden of Eatin’, Arrowhead Mills, Spectrum Organics, Earth’s Best, Health Valley, Casbah, Imagine/Rice Dream/Soy Dream, Tofu Town and Westsoy all belong to the Hain Celestial/Heinz corporation.

17. Naked Juice has sadly been owned by Pepsi since 2006.

18. Humboldt Creamery sounds like a charming Northern California independent company, but no…it is owned by none other than Foster Farms.

19. Erewhon, with its organic sounding name, is actually owned by Post Foods.

20. New Chapter, a very popular maker of natural vitamin supplements, was taken over by Proctor and Gamble. This is a real shock and a huge concern for the future of the brand’s quality control.

Much longer list on link:
https://tracebotanicals.com/blogs/news/88739014-organic-food-companies-who-sold-out-to-mega-food-corporations