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the disclosure of location data. On December 18, 2007, APHIS issued a supplemental administrative order which specifies mandatory practices that must be implemented by Roundup Ready alfalfa producers. In 2007 the USDA put a hold on any further planting of Round up Ready crops due to a lawsuit. The key issues of the lawsuit were gene flow (contamination to non-Roundup Ready crops), and the possibilities of further weed resistance to glyphosate. THESE COMPANIES WONT ACCEPTGMO INGREDIENTS: Frito Lay won't buy GMO com. Gerber won't use GMOs in their baby food. Heinz avoids all GMO ingredients. Burger King and McDonalds refuse to purchase GM potatoes Annie's Naturals won't use GMO soy Hain Group Food - the biggest natural food company in the U.S created a GMO Task Force and requires affidavits from their suppliers. Pacific Grain and Foods - their suppliers must be GM corn and GM soy free Nature's Path Food Inc - won't accept GMO grains and flours for its cereals Newman's Own Aloha Airlines includes GMO-Free snacks in their inflight snack packs Honolulu Poi Company, Aloha Poi, Hanalei Poi and other mills would not accept GMO taro. And - in the UK, the ultimate irony, Monsanto's headquarters cafeteria is GMO-Free! THESE COUNTRIES WONT ACCEPT GMO FOODS - EVEN IN FAMINE: While increasing food security and food availability is the main argument for promoting GMOs, recent research is showing that there is no significant yield increase in genetically engineered crops, only increased safety risks. Southern Africa was facing a significant famine by the end of 2002, with nearly 15 million people facing starvation in Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Yea, in October 2002, Zambia refused U.S. food aid that came in the form of 18,000 tons of GM corn. Other countries followed suit. In November 2002, India froze U.S. GM shipments of corn and soy food aid. In lauuary 2003, two U.S. relief agencies approached the Indian Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC) to gain permission for them to import U.S. GM com and soy food aid that could not be certified as rim-five. As of early 2003, GEAC has approved only the importation of GM cotton, but disallowed GM food imports. At the WSSD, African Civil Society groups composed of more than 45 African countries, presented a statement: "We refuse to be used as the dumping ground for contaminated food rejected by the northern countries. Our responses (sic) is to strengthen solidarity and self-reliance within Africa, in theface of this next wave of coloniwtlott, through GE technologies, which aim to control our agricultural