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THE CASE OF SOY: NO SUCH THING AS GMO-FREE ANYMORE ExAlla, a New Zealand company that specializes in gluten-free bakery products, flour mixes and other baking products for those with gluten allergies in trying to remain GMO- free writes on their web page: "There is a small quantity of soya flour in our bread mix, and some soya lecithin in the chocolate component of the Chocolate Chip cookies, and neither of these can be guaranteed to be GMO free. Contamination of soya is now so widespread that we suspect that no-one in the world can claim that any soya product is GMa-free, in the strict zero-tolerance sense required by labelling regulations." The directors of Natural Products Inc, and Sun Ritch Inc, both of whom supply soy flour to Silk brand soy milk's parent White Wave, an $80 million dollar a year company, feel the same way. In an eye-opening Wall Street Journal article (Laboratory tests belie promises ofsome 'GMO free'food labels, 5 April 2001) companies such as Gerber and Iowa Soy, whose growers plant 3,000 acres of non-gmo organic soy beans under the strictest set of conditions describe how they have been unable prevent contamination. There is so much acreage planted in GM crops throughout the U.S. that it is impossible to isolate organic farms; contamination occurs from the seed to the silo.