April 3rd, 2014
Industry Profile: Grocery Manufacturers Association
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) represents more than 300 of the United States’ biggest food and beverage companies. GMA members also include some of the largest seed and biotechnology companies (like Monsanto, Dow AgroSciences and Syngenta).
The GMA lobbies the federal and state governments to keep business costs low for its members by keeping regulations loose or even voluntary. The priorities of the GMA align its member companies’ bottom lines, and not with the health and well-being of its consumers. The GMA fights to keep genetically engineered foods (GMOs) unlabeled, to oppose mandatory country-of-origin labeling and to block any limitations on marketing junk food to children.