Thank you for the information and links. I have a friend so concerned about this she is considering moving out of the country!

I am ashamed to say that I have been totally blind to the GMO epidemic in the world. I knew they were bad but just did not pay attention. I have woken up and through an unopened box of Kashi this morning and explained to my roommate the situations regarding GMO foods and the companies that lie about their safety.
I live in Hawaii were it has been the epicenter for experiments for GMOs for the world! WOW, talk about being sick when you think you live in Paradise and they are here polluting it! Well, I’m standing up now and taking arms to spread the word to my friends and tell them who is GMO free and who IS and who is NOT. This bs about being partially GMO is out. Once you were in you were guilty of being money hungry as the Killer chemical companies that you sold out to.

Kelloggs spent close to $800k to defeat California prop 37 to fight labeling GMO’s. I’m so sad that Kashi isn’t GMO free. I trusted the Kashi product and fed it to my kids. I had no idea that Kashi contains that crap. I haven’t been buying Kelloggs products because I know they use GMO sugar beets. I’m sad…I already started making my own granola bars.

Although, your being a product of Kelloggs still will sway my purchase habits. Tell kellogs to clean up its act, do they know how much i miss cornflakes.

I am pleased to know you are doing something about Gmo’s Please mark your Non-Gmo products with the non gmo label clearly. I only buy non gmo. NON GMO COOKIES AND BARS WOULD BE GREAT. I dont mind sacrificing taste to not have monsanto corn syrup

Game over Kellogs and any company involved in gmo.
How dare you support gmo and then feed it to an unknowing people.
gmo is banned in a growing number of countries for a reason!
How dare you spend money to vote no on anything that would
allow people to have informed consent as to what they are buying.
Monsanto and all it’s satellite companies and minions
are finished!
How dare you lie and obfuscate the truth!
THIS IS OUR HEALTH…not yours.
You do not speak for the world.
You disgust me.
The world can do better.

You have some nerve selling GMOs and donating to NO on 37 campain (against GMO labeling) and than preaching how “pro organic” your company is. YOU ARE A SELLOUT! And I’m not buying anything from you until you are on the side of consumers. Which means: “ALL NATURAL” labels should be EQUAL to USDA 100% Organic and not anything else… Definitely no GMOs please!

My grandparents didn’t have to label their foods. All foods were organic. Then harmful chemicals were introduced into food production. These chemicals were not labelled. The chemicals got to the point where they were out of control and got into almost all of our food. How could we tell which foods were free from artificial chemicals? Those who did not use these chemicals began to label their food “organic.” The rest of the food supply, by default, attained the misleading signifier; “conventional.” This precedent is being followed by Kashi in their participation in the so called “non GMO project.” GMOs are out of control in the food system in this country, because unlike most countries, the US and Canada did not require labeling from the outset. The non GMO project will do the same thing that the organic vs conventional designations have done; make natural foods more expensive when compared to GMO laden foods by putting the administrative onus of separating GMO contaminants from natural foods on the shoulders of the natural food producer. The non GMO project will bear the cost imposed upon them by the GMOs infesting the food environment. The non GMO project is analogous to having the fishermen pay for cleaning up after oil spills. Prop 37 would have put the responsibility in the hands of those who produce GMOs to identify themselves. As a token (partially) natural food arm of a giant industrial food company (that sells exclusively GMO laced products – one can only assume, as GMO labeling is non-existent in this country) Kashi is pretending to address the labeling of GMOs in a manner that will continue to keep natural foods out of financial reach of most ordinary people in this country. It doesn’t matter that supporters of prop 37 might threaten to boycott Kashi over their role in defeating the proposition. Kashi is a patsy for Kellogs, posing as a natural food company, providing a model of an ideal alternative that allows the parent company to increase their supremacy of profitability. I don’t presume to shame a corporation without a soul. Shame on us for buying into the lies that were sold us by the no on 37 campaign.

You really have a lot of balls pushing this project when your parent company, Kellogg, donated ($632,500) in 2012 to the smear campaign to defeat California Proposition 37, which would have required labeling GMOs in food products. The industry spent $46 billion to keep their dirty little secret. Unfortunately because of this heinous breach of public trust, I can no longer buy Kashi products and will be informing my friends of alternatives from companies that, in the best interests of their customers (not their corporate overlords) contributed money to fund the labeling effort. Shame on you!

Recently, I found out that Cheerios have GMOs so I switched my 3 year old daughter to Heart-to-Heart cereal. She loves the “heart” cereal for breakfast. After that I discovered how delicious Go-lean Crunch tastes with Greek yogurt, so my 15 year old daughter have been eating that for breakfast. Now I find out that it didn’t really matter and the extra money I spent for these particular products didn’t get the GMOs out of our food. When Kashi states that they are searching the world for the “best ingredients”, in my opinion they aren’t searching far enough out of our damaged food system. Maybe that’s impossible now that Monsanto has control of most of our food. I can only hope that Prop 37 will pass and we as consumers can take back control from Monsanto. It’s gone far enough already. At this point, I’ve come to the conclusion that the only way to feed my children with a clear conscious is to buy organic everything and as local as possible. Kashi, please continue verifying your non-GMO products and please hurry to get Heart-to-Heart and Go-Lean Crunch on the list. They’re delicious and I’d love to eat them again.

What a disappointment to find out Kashi is supplying consumers, which use to include myself and our family with products containing GMOs and pesticides. Until Kashi fixes this major issue and rebuilds our trust as consumers we will no longer buy or support Kashi or Kelloggs. In fact any such personal or corporate financial investment in Kelloggs as a publicly traded company would never be considered and if made withdrawn/sold. We do not believe we were treated with integrity, honestly or value by Kashi and Kelloggs. Perhaps Kellogg needs to revisit their corporate responsibility report. If both companies are able to fix this problem they may show value to us as a worthy organic product to once again purchase and/or even invest in. Until then we will not support either company or any of their products.

Our family very much appreciates Kashi’s commitment to having 3rd party testing and verifcation of the absense of GMOs in their products. And we SO look forward to returning as customers when Kelloggs and Kashi take the high road and support Proposition 37. Your leadership in this matter would launch your business to greater revenues and, also, be the right thing for all consumers.

I am completely shocked to here that Kashi opposed to Prop 37. By promoting your products as a healthy alternative to the other products, you have an obligation to to your consumers to keep them and their health first. This is the basis in which your company was founded. If Kashi would support Prop 37 or just identified on the labels the GMOs contained in there products and let the consumer decide, your fan base would grow instead of diminish. I personally will discontinue purchasing Kashi products until all GMOs have been identified on their labels, or until all Kashi products no longer contain GMO’s.

Until I read about Kashi’s opposition to GMO labeling, naively, I had no awareness that most of your product line was high in GMO grains and soy. While clearly late to the party, happy to now know this, and will now be spending my dollars elsewhere until you make more progress than this first step.

When will you be making GoLean Crunch GMO free? I had eaten this cereal for years and years until I learned it contained GMO’s.

Everyone, haven’t you ever thought of this….A company gets bought out by large corporation because of lack of support from consumers in the form of purchases to help the company keep going or to help it grow. So, if we don’t want something like this to happen again…maybe we as consumers need to be more diligent in supporting our smaller businesses and make it where they don’t have to rely on big corporations to survive and grow. Haven’t you ever thought of that before? Its easy for us to complain, but a business is there to make money. That is what a business does. It can have a worthy purpose, but if we don’t support then it either goes under or gets bought out. So we as consumers are likely also at fault for this, maybe Kashi or other companies we believed in didn’t have to get bought out if they had more of or support to make it unnecessary…and where they can grow as a business without corporate dollars. We need to stop complaining after the fact and support our smaller businesses so they can grow and be robust without big corporate money.

Everyone needs to calm down! First, Kashi can’t control what their parent company is doing. They made a mistake by allowing Kelloggs to purchase them, but Kelloggs has the power now….you as a consumer can boycott Kellogs and bring the fight to them. Why bring it to just Kashi, when its Kelloggs you are mad at. SO stop complaining and crying, go and boycott Kelloggs if you are so mad about Kelloggs. As far as the GMO, most of the food that you eat regardless has GMO in it. So you are eating it anyway. What Kashi is doing is trying to meet a legitimate concern about GMO’s by having more non-GMO cereals. Instead of you appreciating what Kashi is doing, you still want to bash them. Okay, are you bashing any other companies who you purchase food from, which has GMO’s….are you bashing any restaurants who most certainly feeding you GMO’s? If you are really that concerned about GMO’s, and not just blowing steam to make yourself feel better, then do something about it. Don’t just scream and yell, DON"T BUY THE PRODUCT…but buy the products that don’t use GMO’s! The more you scream and yell, the more you look like you won’t do anything else constructive. I commend Kashi for making this effort, and I will buy Kashi no matter what anyone here says. I support any company that changes what they can control.

I am a label reader, you have to be these days. I thought it was bad when a product contains 3 days worth of sodium, or a heart attacks worth of cholesterol and fat. Now I have to check somewhere else (like the internet), to see if the product contains GMO’s. If you are proud of your product, why would you (or your “parents”) want to pass a law forbidding this information? You are what you eat, and I am NOT genetically modified or “engineered.” I have always thought that you were a company that uses “natural” ingredients, that is what your advertising states. GMO’s are not natural, get them out of your products. Another thought, since we don’t know how these seeds are modified, what about people who are allergic to certain foods?

You talk about Kashi as if it were an independent company. Your not. You sold out to Kellogg over 10 years ago, and are therefore servants to your corporate masters, who are interested in one thing and one thing only… profit! I wonder what W.K. Kellogg would think of the crap (GMO’s) you put into your products? 7 grains on a mission… to deceive! Shame on you! I just literally threw out 6 boxes of Kashi trail mix bars. One of the few choices we have in this country is what we eat, and you’re no longer it.

LIES AND DECEIT for profit and gain.
I no longer trust the Kashi Brand!!! I believed in your marketing campaign that your product was all natural. Only now that you got caught lying to the public, (through independent testing) are you making any effort to clear the name. As a consumer, I should have been aware that the use of Soy in your Kashi Go Lean Cereal was an indication that there were GMO’s in your product, but I believed that Kashi had it’s customers’ interests at heart! Evidently, YOU DON’T, you’re just feeding bank accounts, no longer caring for the people that helped grow your company. Shame on you.

I’ve made choices about what products I put in my body, No HFC and No GMO’s. I’ve eliminated soy based products with the exception of my Kashi Go Lean Cereal-because I trusted you. So, you now have a line of products that are GMO free, the product I’ve enjoyed for years is not on the list. You’ve lost a loyal customer.

I am so sad to find out you have lied to all of us. As long as you are associated with Kellog’s, which does not support Prop 37, I will no longer buy ANY of your products. Kashi, your name once meant something! No longer! We want to know what is in our food!

such a shame. I enjoyed you products, but I won’t be buying them anymore until all of them are GMO free

Yes, Kashi’s parent company is spending big money opposing the effort to require labeling of food that contains GMOs so that people can decide for themselves whether to eat them or not. But on the bright side, they do have those pretty rainforest commercials.

I am sorry to see that your parent company Kellogg has donated against Prop 37 in California for labeling GMOs or genetically engineered food ingredients on food packaging. I will no longer be supporting your business or your parent corporation.

James Knauer

I’m confused. Why sport the Is a Non-GMO Project on your box, but then contribute $612,000 to defeat Proposition 37. Why don’t you believe that Californians have the right to know what is in our food? I used to be proud that you started out in La Jolla, but now I’m ashamed of you. The marketing is transparently false when your actions speak so loudly.

From the Kashi FAQ “The foundation of our foods is our unique combination of seven whole grains which are not grown using GMOs. However, the majority of food crops grown in the U.S. are genetically engineered.”

Yes, Kashi, that’s true—they’re patenting the entire genome to make an extra profit. But guess what? YOU’RE a huge company, owned by another even more huge company (Kelloggs), and if Kelloggs said they wanted NON-GMO grain by the millions of tons for its cereals, someone—no lots of someones—would grow it.

What technique is that? I thought GMO is the alteration of genes in certain organism to produce what they want? IS this correct?

The only thing that keeps me from buying the Kashi brand is your parent company is Kellogg’s. This is the same company that has SEVERE quality control issues. EGGO and other sister brands have been in the news. I even experienced it myself with some sticks in my cereal and bugs in my Kashi frozen dinners. That a a ton of salt. No thank you! Can we trust Kashi is certified GMO free??? NO… Not too much. If you were NOT owned by Kellogg’s, I would trust you. Too bad.

I am very disappointed that kashi would contain any gmo’s in their products. Please do not say it is because our bought off politicians say it is safe, there has been no in depth testing to prove safety and last I checked the crooks in Washington that made that decision are not scientists but in fact ignored recommendations by scientists to do further testing.
I will not purchase GMO food or support a company that uses GMOs. One customer you won’t get back until you label your food as non-GMO.

I have been buying Kashi products for over 20 years now and I am really disgusted to hear about you using GMO ingredients! Guess I should have expected that from Kellogg’s! I will not be using anymore of your products or selling them in my health food store until ALL of them are GMO FREE! Even then I may have a hard time trusting your company again! You act proud because a few of your products are now NON-GMO certified, what a joke! You are a disgrace to health seekers everywhere!

You say, “The scientific community has not established a causative link between GMOs and any impact on human health.” That’s hardly surprising when political appointees (often former employees of Monsanto) headed USDA, FDA and EPA (still do), and ruled that foods produced by the “relative new science” of genetic engineering are equivalent to the foods developed through natural breeding over millennia—and therefore don’t require labeling or testing. Yet it was revealed in a lawsuit that even the government’s own scientists warned that these novel foods should be tested. And now they are being tested, in a truly frightening manner, by the biggest group of Guinea pigs on earth…the American people! And with no labeling, many Americans are still unaware of this.

You also lament “factors outside our control, such as pollen drift from nearby crops and current practices in agricultural storage, handling, and shipping [have led] to an environment in North America where GMOs are not sufficiently segregated. As a result, some of our foods may contain GMOs.” Are we supposed to believe that a big conglomerate like Kellogg’s is just a poor hapless victim of outside factors? That you never actively purchased GMO crops, that it was pollen drift that caused your soy (see cornucopia.org ) to test 100% GMO! Nonsense! If giant corporations like Kellogg’s—and the companies they acquire like Kashi—had not knowingly bought GMOs and quietly slipped them into our food supply without labeling, this outrageous situation that you claim is “outside your control” would never have become so severe. And now you want to blame pollen drift and agricultural practices for all your problems. No way! Put the blame where it belongs.

Blame yourself, Kellogg’s, for calling roundup ready soy inserted with bacterial and viral genes and antibiotic markers “natural.” Blame your greed for calling Kashi “natural” when your own market research must have told you most people thought it meant no pesticides or GMOs—some even thought it meant organic. Surely you knew that, but then you insult us by concocting your own ridiculous definition of the word.

Kellogg’s, you knowingly deceived us. I believe that calling Kashi “natural” was a deliberate effort on your part to “green-wash” GMO soy in the name of profits. It was a lie. How can we trust your products now? I will never again buy Kashi as long as Kellogg’s continues to peddle unlabeled GMOs in its other products. Only companies as large as Kellogg’s can turn around the awful situation they helped create. If Kellogg’s demands non-GMOs from farmers, farmers will grow them.

By the way, I am boycotting (and urge others to do so, too) anything claiming to be “natural” or “all natural”. It has no legal meaning and is meant only to deceive the public into buying their products thinking they are organic, or at least, free of pesticides, GMO and all the other bad things we can only avoid by buying organic. I have learned to ask the questions, and the answers all point to attempts to mislead people.

Kashi’s response to this crisis displays how clueless their management is in handling this crisis. It does not realize that this is its “Tylenol” moment but unlike then J&J’s response, Kashi’s response has been to double down by saying that they followed the rules. Who cares about rules- SPAM makes meat as per the rules! That does not mean I am gonna buy it!!
They are not realizing that their customers flocked to them because other food companies were untrustworthy and the most valuable facet of their brand is damaged. Also, their customers are educated and web savvy, so they should have gone into damage control instead of shooting the messenger.

I’m very sorry to hear that Kashi still uses GMO’s in their products. I always thought they were a healthier company, but now realize they are just poison in a box. As many of the posters stated, Monsanto has infiltrated our food supply with products that are bad for our health, economy and environment. Read for yourselves. Unbiased facts don’t lie. I support the country of Brazil in its fight against Monsanto and I will no longer be purchasing any Kashi products. Accessory to the crime…let our consumer dollars speak!

PS -I would add that there was no “causative link” established because the FDA approved GMO use without benefit of testing. Catch 22: no testing = no causative link . . . no causative link implies it’s healthy. FDA approval implies no need to test. I would urge anyone interested in this topic to google “fda + monsanto”. Anyone that can read will clearly see why there is no “causative link”, and as long as the revolving door exists in Washington, there never will be.

Kashi makes it sound like GMO’s are floating around all over the place and there’s no way to avoid them. Their argument also ignores the fact that their product WAS tested by an independent lab. Their Go Lean cereals, which gets their protein from soy, tested 100 percent genetically engineered. While I encourage them to clean up their act and finally tell the truth, it’s clear their parent company, Kelloggs, is far more interested in damage control than truth at this point.

VERY disappointed to read that the Kashi GoLean cereals use GMO soybeans among the ingredients. It was my understanding that this was an all natural product as claimed by the packaging. As well by consuming the product I was supporting my effort to consume natural, healthy food and not to poison myself with toxins. You should be ashamed as you have betrayed your customer base and I will never purchase another Kashi product (or Kelloggs product for that matter!).

Perhaps it’s time for Kellogg’s to creeate a new kind of cereal, one that more clearly represents it’s brand, name it Monsant "O’s! Pure GMO goodness, sprayed, doused, and drenched in chemicals, and you can still use your all natural label on it. I certainly feel like you owe me for overpaying for years for subpar cereals, thinking you were doing me better by your higher price, but I am feeling, cheated, lied to and purposely misled. Is there any chance you can do better in the future?

I am sure if the former owner of this company still owned this company, instead of being bought out by Kellog, they would STILL be organic and non-gmo. Sorry, you just lost a good customer…

I will never buy a Kashi product again and will continue to urge others not to. The point is if you are all about organic’s, you don’t ever expect a company who puts themselves out there as such to deceive you in such a horrific way. Kashi, you are now in bed with Monsanto and can never be trusted again!! I threw out all of your products, You are dead to me!

I recently read about the GMO in my favorite- kashi go lean- and I am IRATE. I have long trusted this brand and recommend it to all of my pregnant and nursing moms for a great source of protein and fiber to keep them and their wee ones healthy. I am glad to hear that there is a move to nonGMO and I am glad- keep it up and I will continue to trust this brand but will not buy any product unless it is nonGMO. Please aim to make your ENTIRE line this way- for the health of your consumers and this planet too.

We feel misled by Kashi. I thought they were a cereal to be trusted. I want healthy food, not genetically modified. Won’t be buying ANY Kashi until they fix all their products.

We used to enjoy kashi but the kind that we like has GMO’s in them. Goodbye Kashi. We believed in the quality of your product and now know that you sold out to increase your profit. Never again!!!

Total lack of transparency! Your commericals show many “Natural” fields and selection of ingredients. Why do you not show a crop duster spraying Roundup on the same? If you want to be a leader – be one! Otherwise get out of the way and let others lead. This attitude of saying/showing one process and selling another will only make Kashi (Kellogg) a former favorite in many stores. Put up all the video messages you want about why you do not specifically tell us what in in your products but it is the message in your ads that is misleading consumers.
Shame on you!
Signed ,
Former consumer and product ambassador

Like the no gmo project! Do not like your use of the term natural on things that contain gmo ingredients. It is dishonest and misleading. Also Kellogg’s openly admits that it’s food in Europe is gmo free because of consumer demand but that it has gmos still in the US. I have lost all respect for a company that would knowlying give us gmos when obviously they can make the same thing without it. Shame on you. What do you feed your own families?

WHAT A ROYAL SCREW UP!
KASHI (KELLOGG)WILL NEED TO GET THIS RIGHT QUICKLY OR LIKE THE OTHERS YOU WILL DIE A QUICK DEATH AT THE HANDS OF LOYAL CONSUMERS…CONSUMERS HAVE REALIZED FOR SOME TIME WHO HOLD THE POWER TO CHANGE THIS…THERE IS NO TURNING BACK AND NO MORE TIME FOR DECEPTION…
PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ALL ABOUT THEIR FOODS, BUT OVER THE YEARS HAVE COME TO TRUST COMPANIES LIKE KELLOGG WHO USED TO STAND FOR A HIGH LEVEL OF QUALITY…THIS IS NOT THE CASE ANYMORE…CONSUMERS NOW TRUST NO ONE…NOT YOU OR ANYOTHER BRAND…TODAY KEEBLER STILL USES HYDROGENATED OILS (TRANS FATS) IN MANY OF THER PRODUCTS EVEN THOUGHT THIS STUFF GIVES YOU GLOGGED ARTERIES AND HEART DISEASE
WHATS SAD IS…IT IS THE COMPANIES LIKE KELLOGG THAT HAVE THE RESOURCES AND POWER TO EASILY CHANGE THIS AND THE INDUSTRY..AND LIKE THE OTHERS HAVE SUBMITTED TO WALL STREET IN FAVOR OF PUMPED UP PROFITS AND EARNINGS!

Good work Kashi – keep us informed!

I find it sad that with all that has been published online about how consumers want GMO’s labeled (not to mention eliminated) that Kashi only has 7 products that are verified non GMO and that recently with the Green Grocer taking off the shelves non GMO Kashi products that you had to post a video saying that it is inevitable that GMO’s will get into our food supply – so what direction are you taking here? I have to say that I will no longer purchase Kashi products, since selling to Kellogg’s you have gone the way of bowing to the large food conglomerates who want to give the impression of being ‘a healthy and natural choice’ but actually it is all smoke and mirrors. Goodbye Kashi.

I enjoyed eating my Kashi cereal each morning. Now I am perplexed as to what I should do with the remaining boxes I have (Heart to Heart oak flakes and blueberry clusters and Heart to Heart warm cinnamon oat cereal). Not only is this a GMO problem I am now reading about pesticides. Please tell me what should I do about the remaining 4.5 boxes of cereal I now have in my pantry. Thanks!

I am hopeful that Kashi will continue to move toward total non-GMO ingredients in their cereal. Unfortunately the two products we have bought in the past include GMO products(Heart cereal, Go Lean)…so I will have to look at other alternatives. I am sure you are aware that there is a picture floating around on the web, and social media of sign posted in a grocery store that says why they pulled your products from the shelves(use of GMO ingredients). It is unfortunate that Kashi when bought by Kellog had to sell out to sell more cereal. The movement for non GMO foods and the labeling of them is growing. Be ahead of the curve and move toward total non-GMO. Thank you!