Whole Food's GMO Labeling Decision Reflects Struggle To Influence Food Consumption

Whole Foods To Require Labels On Genetically Modified Products by Tiffany Hsu.  Lost Angeles Times.

Implicitly, this article places the decision by Whole Foods to begin labeling GMO products by 2018 in the context of a efforts for various constituencies to exercise influence over the food that is eaten and sold.  These include customers, retailers, agricultural companies, restaurant chains, suppliers and interest groups.  For example, animal rights activists are achieving some success in influencing firms to use suppliers who use humane conditions.