{"id":29482,"date":"2011-08-09T06:43:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T06:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=29482"},"modified":"2011-08-09T06:43:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T06:43:09","slug":"article_23755","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_23755\/","title":{"rendered":"ConAgra Challenged Over &#8220;100% Natural&#8221; Claim on Wesson Oils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For related articles and more information, please visit OCA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/gelink.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Genetic Engineering page<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/organlink.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All About Organics page<\/a>, and our <a href=\"http:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/whole_foods_unfi.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Myth of Natural page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>ConAgra Foods is facing two class action lawsuits that claim the marketing of its Wesson cooking oils as &#8220;100% natural&#8221; and &#8220;pure&#8221; is misleading because the oil is extracted from plants that have been genetically modified (GM).<\/p>\n<p>\tThe two lawsuits, one filed in Los Angeles and the other in Brooklyn, seek millions of dollars&#8217; worth of refunds for consumers who bought products in ConAgra&#8217;s Wesson range of cooking oils, as well as a court order preventing the company from labeling the oils as natural. The oils concerned include Wesson-brand corn oil, canola oil, Bast Blend and vegetable oil.<\/p>\n<p>\tAccording to the complaint, labeling the oils &#8220;100% natural&#8221; is misleading because GM plants are &#8220;unnatural&#8221;, as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO says: &#8220;Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) can be defined as organisms in which the genetic material (DNA) has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\tConAgra does not explicitly state that its Wesson-brand cooking oils are derived from genetically modified plants. however, the complaints point to a section on the ConAgra corporate website regarding biotechnology, which they claim implies that the oils are extracted from GM crops.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ConAgra Foods is facing two class action lawsuits that claim the marketing of its Wesson cooking oils as &#8220;100% natural&#8221; and &#8220;pure&#8221; is misleading because the oil is extracted from plants that have been genetically modified (GM).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2,7,32,42],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>ConAgra Challenged Over &quot;100% Natural&quot; 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