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Abby's Magazine - May / June 2014 | Page 29 10. Livestock eating genetically modified grain causes GMOs in my meat? It's a wide open landscape for attorneys. So what's a company to do? The fiduciary duty of the executives inside the food companies still using these ingredients is to protect shareholder returns. According to attorney Jordan Grotzinger: "What's the takeway for companies selling products with GMOs? Pay attention to consumers' questions. They're your customers. They're also your potential adversaries in litigation, if you don't disclose arguably material facts. If appropriate, consider addressing issues about which your customers might be concerned in your advertising or labeling. Lawsuits over "all natural" products or products containing GMOs usually involve claims of deception, that the consumer didn't know this or that about the product. You can get in front of this risk and minimize the chances that someone can accuse you of misleading them by disclosing facts about which they're curious." Given the legal climate, you'd think U.S. companies would dump GMOs and replace them with non genetically engineered ingredients. It's not like they're reinventing the wheel here. It's the way they formulate their products in other countries and it is also the way they formulated their products fifteen years ago, prior to the introduction of GMOs in the 1990s. The question now, in light of this legal landscape and the risk that using unlabeled GMOs presents to their shareholders, is: At what point is it the fiduciary responsibility of the food companies to avoid this legal liability, dump GMOs and formulate their products without them? The time, in light of the escalating rates of diseases we are seeing in the health of our loved ones, just might be now. 5Key Benefits of Garden of Life Coconut Oil • Contains meat from only the freshest, organically grown coconuts • Produced using the same methods Philippine farmers have used for centuries • Helps maintain already healthy levels of cholesterol and thermogenesis† • Can be used in place of butter. Enjoy in cooking, frying, baking or in smoothies • RAW, vegan, non-GMO, not hydrogenated, refined, bleached or deodorized † These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.