New shopping service brochure

This article was originally published in July 2014

A new service for a better-informed shopping experience at PCC is coming soon.

We’ve created a brochure to help you decide what food companies and brands you may choose to avoid or support. The brochure identifies the ownership of some familiar organic brands, and brands in the Grocery Manufacturers Association that funded defeat of labeling genetically engineered (GE) foods in Washington state. It will be available in stores soon.

The Grocery Manufacturers Association and other processed food interests recently filed a lawsuit in federal court to overturn Vermont’s new law to label genetically engineered foods. They say labels on GE foods would violate their right to free speech.

Also in this issue

News bites, July 2014

Organic sales increasing, Bee rustlers, Oregon counties ban GE crops, and more

Soil & Sea: reports from our producers

Learn about the rising value of Washington's organic crops, the new Cosmic Crisp apple, exploding demand for Greek yogurt, the rebound in Chinook salmon catches and more.

Eating wild

Since the dawn of agriculture some 5,000 to 12,000 years ago, humans have been choosing to grow sweeter, less fibrous, and usually less nutritious varieties of fruits and vegetables — essentially breeding nutrients out of food.