Whole Foods might be hellbent on taking over the world one organic Fuji apple at a time, but at least they're doing it responsibly: the retailer says they will now require labels on all genetically-modified foods they sell.
Though there's been a recent push to disclose more information about genetically-modified ingredients in food, Whole Foods is the first retailer in the country to require labels, though it'll take five years for the mandate to be in place. As of now, all food they sell that's guaranteed to contain no genetically-modified ingredients is labeled as such, so that's a start, at least.
"We’ve seen how our customers have responded to the products we do have labeled,” A.C. Gallo, president of Whole Foods, told the Times. “Some of our manufacturers say they’ve seen a 15 percent increase in sales of products they have labeled." Hopefully, they'll have the labeling worked out by the time Super Salmon hits grocery stores. But the real question, though, is what kind of warning labels will they attach to produce at the Gowanus Whole Foods?
