Handcrafted Soup Company Facing Class Action Over 'Natural' Claims

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New Jersey’s Tabatchnick Fine Foods Inc. is the defendant in a proposed class action that alleges that despite claims of crafting its soups from the “highest quality, natural ingredients,” the company’s products in fact contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The case specifically claims the defendant’s soups can include GMO soy, GMO soy-derivatives, GMO corn, GMO corn-derivatives, and GMO canola. From the lawsuit:

“The terms GM foods or GMOs commonly refer to crop plants created for human or animal consumption using the latest molecular biology techniques. These plants have been modified in the laboratory through a process whereby the genes of one species are inserted into another species. The purported purpose of genetic engineering plants is to enhance certain traits, such as, for example, increased resistance to herbicides.”

The products named in the lawsuit include:

The plaintiff argues that he and other consumers were induced into buying the defendant’s products thanks to “All Natural” being printed on the soups’ labels, and thus expected to pay for ingredients “untouched by scientific modifications.”