Cargill nonGMO food ingredient project. What do you folks think?

[monte]

this is from the Cargill website.

Not sure if this is bad or an opportunity for farmers.



MINNEAPOLIS – March 10, 2017 – Furthering its commitment to help food and beverage customers address growing consumer demand for non-GMO product offerings, Cargill has announced an identity preservation process and several additional Non-GMO Project Verified food ingredients.

Cargill’s KnownOrigins™ identity preservation process delivers transparency so food and beverage manufacturers can efficiently source the ingredients they need to deliver non-GMO products to consumers.

“Cargill is uniquely positioned to help our customers translate growing consumer demand for non-GMO products into profitable growth,” said Lea Buerman, Cargill Food Safety, Quality and Regulatory Manager. “Cargill’s combination of the industry’s broadest portfolio of non-GMO ingredients, well-established crop sourcing programs and our KnownOrigins™ identity preservation process enables our customers to scale production with confidence and get to market quickly with new non-GMO products.”

Cargill’s KnownOrigins™ process features robust testing, approval and evaluation protocols that enable food and beverage manufacturers to make non-GMO claims with the confidence of knowing that Cargill’s non-GMO ingredients meet the agreed-to non-GMO standard. Key features of KnownOrigins™ include:
• Traceability back to producers – Each farmer in Cargill’s non-GMO producer program is identifiable so that non-GMO soybeans, corn and high oleic canola can be traced back to producers1.
• Testing to verify non-GMO status – Testing is performed on either harvest bin composites, incoming truck deliveries, or the finished ingredient to ensure that Cargill’s non-GMO ingredient products comply with the agreed-to non-GMO standard (e.g. Non-GMO Project Verification, European Union).
• Stringent raw material evaluation and approval protocols are used for all raw materials and processing aids so that Cargill customers can make a non-GMO claim with the confidence of knowing that Cargill’s non-GMO ingredients meet the agreed-to non-GMO standard.
• Cargill’s specific segregation, cleaning and flushing procedures protect against cross-contact with GMO ingredients and ensure that co-mingling levels are within the agreed-to non-GMO standard.
• Cargill’s non-GMO production facilities operate under food Good Manufacturing Practices that have been verified by industry-leading Global Food Safety Initiative certification agencies.
• Internal review by Cargill’s legal, regulatory and food safety experts means that Cargill customers can make a non-GMO claim with the confidence of knowing that Cargill’s non-GMO ingredients meet the agreed-to non-GMO standard.

Non-GMO Project Verified Ingredients

Cargill has recently received Non-GMO Project Verification of the following food ingredients: Stevia sweeteners, dry corn (mill, grits, flour), glucose heirloom syrup, corn syrup solids, dextrin, maltodextrin, modified food starch, native starch, mid oleic sunflower oil, Clear Valley® High Oleic Canola Oil, soybean oil, chicory inulin2, and erythritol (using corn feedstock). Previously announced Cargill ingredients with Non-GMO Project Verification include: erythritol (using cane sugar feedstock), cane sugar, Clear Valley® High Oleic Sunflower Oil, and Clear Valley® Expeller Pressed High Oleic Sunflower Oil.

“Non-GMO Project Verification remains the most trusted emblem for consumers seeking non-GMO food options,” Buerman said. “We continue to work closely with the Non-GMO Project and hope to have even more Cargill ingredients verified in the near future.”

NSF International is the Technical Administrator for Cargill's Non-GMO Project Verified ingredients. NSF International is a global independent organization that writes standards, and tests and certifies products for the food, water, health sciences, and consumer goods industries.

1. Cargill’s corn and soybean non-GMO producer programs are based in North America; the high oleic canola producer program is based in Australia.


2. Cargill is the exclusive North American distributor of chicory inulin manufactured by Cosucra.

[ColevilleH2S]

I don't much mind the Non-GMO thing, if it just stayed as a market segregation. But these clowns at The Non-GMO Project continually attack agriculture with innuendo and sometimes outright lies about us. Any ag related organization that partners with them are enabling the further spread of misinformation about our industry to the general public.

[Braveheart]

I think the firestorm on Twitter has Cargill back pedalling. Someone at Cargill didn't do their homework on the Non GMO Project that's certain.

Cargill is heading for the penalty box with A & W and Chipotle.

[blackpowder]

At least they profit coming or going.

[AllisWD45]

Check out a California company called Cibus and their Group 2 tolerant non GMO canola varieties. USA farmers are contracting with Cargill and receiving premiums for these varieties.
Apparently some varieties are now licensed in Canada and will be widely available in 2018 with Cargill contracts. This would be a tremendous alternative in soybean and corn country
They are also working on a non GMO glysaphate Flax variety

[Braveheart]

All those are good alternatives, although it might get too hot in corn and soy country for canola blossoms.

What people are upset with Cargill for though, is partnering or even acknowledging the Non GMO Project. This is a non science based, wingnut group that spouts bs, much like The Food Babe.

[ColevilleH2S]

...although it might get too hot in corn and soy country for canola blossoms...

I would suspect down there they would grow Winter Canola, like the Europeans

[farmaholic]

This "campaign" reminds me of Viterra's sustainable canola program. Or Warburton wheat. Sometimes I don't think the carrots are big enough for the extra expectations put on us.

[Hopalong]

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Dropped in at a big city natural foods store this afternoon.
It was a higher end store with prices to match.
Not the cramped health food store of fifty years ago.
Admit some satisfaction to see very few customers.
Have long thought that consumers would slow support.
Still waiting.