Welcome to the News Room. Here you will
find the latest press releases, stories and information about the Kraft
Campaign.
Latest News
Kraft focuses on revitalization at annual meeting
Annual meetings attract all types, Shareholders make sure
voices are heard
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Can new wheat be separated from the chaff of uncertainty?"
Chemical and Engineering
News "Biotech wheat's intense debate"
Recent News Releases
Press Release "Investors, Consumers, Scientists, and Environmentalists Present New Information and Voice Concerns About Genetically Engineered Foods at Kraft Shareholder Meeting"
Press
Release "Consumers in More than 250 Locations Call on Kraft Foods
to Stop Putting Human Health and the Environment at Risk"
Controversy
over Biotech Food Hits Downtown Chicago Food Conference: Protesters say
biotech companies misleading the world not feeding the world
Similar to Obesity, Biotech
Weighs on Kraft: At Major Chicago Food Conferences Coalition Calls for
Kraft to Stop Putting Consumers at Risk
Report Finds Genetically Engineered Foods a 'Risky Business' for Kraft
(KFT)
Kraft (KFT-NYSE) Investors Raise Concerns About Genetically Engineered
Foods at Shareholder Meeting
Citizens
Gather at Kraft Foods Headquarters and Call On Company to Remove Engineered
Ingredients
Consumer
Campaign Targeting Kraft Foods in 150 Cities
New
Consumer Campaign Targeting Kraft Foods Launched in 170 Cities Today
Press Coverage
Print:
Coverage of Recent Actions:
Reuters
"Green group protest Kraft for using biotech crops"
Chicago
Sun TImes "Group says Kraft cuts biotech in 4 products; company says
no"
Chicago Sun Times on July
16, 2003 Protest at World Food Congress in Chicago
Winnetka Talk/Pioneer Press "Group stages protest at Kraft CEO's
grocery"
UPI Farming Today "Activists to protest Kraft"
Chicago Sun-Times "CEOs urged not to ignore activist groups"
UPI "Kraft blasted for genetic food claims"
Agance
France Presse "Kraft Foods critics say company might be backing away
from biotech ingredients"
Agance
France Presse "Kraft Foods defends biotech ingredients in face of
planned US protests"
Agance
France Presse "Kraft Foods to be target of US protests starting Oct
5"
Coverage of Shareholder
Meeting 2003:
Chicago
Tribune "Actor Chevy Chase Speaks Out at Shareholder Meeting"
Chicago Sun-Times "Actor
asks Kraft to take biotech out of its U.S. Food"
Food Chemical News "Anti-biotech groups warn investors against Monsanto,
Kraft: Biotechnology"
Daily Record "Smoking
verdict won't hurt Kraft case / Use of genetically modified foods protested"
Star-Ledger (NJ) "Kraft Foods meeting no laughing matter"
UPI "Kraft investors concerned w/ genetic crops"
Campaign Launch:
The
Wall Street Journal "Kraft Foods Draws Consumer Ire For Its Use of
Modified Ingredients"
Chicago Tribune "Kraft to Be Target of Anti-Biotech Campaign"
Chicago Tribune "Group
Names Bioengineered Kraft Foods"
Chicago Sun Times "Groups Want Kraft Change"
Boston Herald "Biotech
Fears Hit Kraft - Group Cites Lack of Tests on Ingredients in Seven Foods"
Reuters "Anti-Biotech
Group Targets Kraft Foods"
The Journal News (NY)
"Activist Protests Kraft's Genetically Engineered Foods"
Web:
WebMD
"Are Genetically Modified Foods Safe?"
Radio:
"The ramifications
of the production of genetically modified foods at Kraft." 90.1 FM
WEFT, Urbana, IL Community Radio. Aired 4-28-2003 at 5:30 pm. Click here
to listen:
htto://www.icimc.org/newswire/display_any/11518
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