In June 2010 our GfK/NOP poll showed 89% of shoppers want a label on GM-fed animal products.

So GM Freeze wrote to the supermarkets listed below and asked them about their policy on [non-GM animal feed], labels and which lines they sell as non-GM fed. Products available from non-GM fed animals are summarised below. A chart of supermarket responses to GM Freeze is available here.

Non-GM fed conventional (non-organic) products (own brand unless otherwise stated):

NB Only the Coop carries processed foods (chicken) from non-GM fed animals.

If you want to buy...

Eggs

Milk and dairy

Poultry

Beef

Pork

Lamb

Fish (farmed)

Aldi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Asda

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Budgens

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CWS (Co-op)

 

"Our policy is to eliminate GM crops from the diets of animals reared for Co-op Brand products at no extra cost to our customers."

 

      X

 

Chicken (includes frozen, portions and processed), fresh turkey and duck

 

 All fresh

NZ lamb

salmon and trout

Iceland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lidl

Free range

 

 "Bally Manor" chicken

 

 

 

 

Marks and Spencer

 

     X

Milk

X (incl frozen chicken)

 

     X

 

     X

 

   X

 

    X

Morrison's

 

      X

 

Fresh and frozen

 

 

 

   

     X

Netto

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sainsbury's

Taste the Difference

Farm Promise milk

Chicken, turkey and duck (incl frozen)

Taste the Difference

Taste the Difference

 

salmon
Tesco     X   Fresh and frozen        

Waitrose

 

     X   

 

Chicken, duck

 

 

NZ lamb (inc frozen and NZ lamb in ready meals)

Farmed fish (inc frozen salmon)

Key:

X = from animals fed a non-GM diet

              

For more on GM animal feed see our actions and our briefing Animal Feed and GM.