1. It’s delicious.
Feeling super is a state of mind. Eating something tasty is an instant way to boost your spirits and bring about feelings of joy—and Oikos Super Fruits are super tasty! Bursting with pomegranate, raspberry, and acai take just one bite and a feeling of super-ness will settle over you.
2. It’s organic.
Organic is pretty much synonymous with super. An organic certification on your Oikos cup means you are eating delicious yogurt produced without the use of toxic persistant pesticides and chemical fertilizers, antibiotics, synthetic growth hormones, artificial flavors, colors, or preservatives. Plus, you’re supporting sustainable agriculture that seeks to improve all manners of health – yours, animals, and the environment. Pretty super, no?
3. It’s packed with protein.
Popeye may have had his spinach but we like to think that Superman (and Batman too) pick organic Oikos as their fuel of choice. There’s nothing like 13 grams of protein in one serving to help super-power you through your day!
4. It has five probiotics.
Probiotics are microorganisms that may help with digestion, offer protection from harmful bacteria, and prevent or reduce the severity of colds and flu. That’s important to keeping a super-feeling going strong because the better you feel physically, the better you feel overall.
5. It helps support small family farms.
When you buy Oikos, you help support organic family farms. Our organic milk comes from dedicated Organic Valley/CROPP farmers who work hard to care for the land, their animals, and all of us. Eating a cup of Oikos Super Fruits means supporting someone else. How can you not feel super about that? (Meet some of the farmers who produce the milk for our yogurt here.)
Check out our #SuperOikos Twitter Sweepstakes to win a free cup of Oikos and keep that super feeling going strong! Follow us @Stonyfield, tweet a photo of your empty Oikos cup @Stonyfield (include #SuperOikos), and if you’re one of the first 160 tweeters we’ll send free coupon to fill your Oikos cup back up.
Just an over 50 something, long time, well read consumer and not an activist, but no more SB’folks. Not using your products, don’t shop at WF’s and although, convenient to grab the only organic @ Publix, I’ll make the trip to my local health food store and buy a lesser known, more dedicated brand to satisfy my convictions. We just will not let greed undo what progress has been made in the last 40 years in our farming communities and for the good of all Americans and our country. New grandchild, first won’t be a SB brand consumer like his G-ma, sorry, unforgivable ‘Organic’, Inc, unforgivable.
Why Is Organic Inc. Surrendering?
According to informed sources, the CEOs of WFM and Stonyfield are personal friends of former Iowa governor, now USDA Secretary, Tom Vilsack, and in fact made financial contributions to Vilsack’s previous electoral campaigns. Vilsack was hailed as “Governor of the Year” in 2001 by the Biotechnology Industry Organization, and traveled in a Monsanto corporate jet on the campaign trail. Perhaps even more fundamental to Organic Inc.’s abject surrender is the fact that the organic elite has become more and more isolated from the concerns and passions of organic consumers and locavores.
Hi Melissa:
We wanted to encourage you to read our newest blog posts here on the Buzz for insights from our CE-Yo and an important call-to-action for what we can all do to help.
Last week’s USDA decision supports the interests of Monsanto and big biotech and deals a major blow to the organic industry. Like you, we are deeply disappointed. The decision clearly demonstrates that current laws in this country do not adequately protect consumer choice and health. This is where we now must be united and focusing our attention. There is overwhelming scientific evidence why GE crops should not be approved. Now is the time for all opponents of GE crops to come together and fight the real problem: the risks that GE crops pose to organic and consumer choice.
We are not nor have we ever ‘sold out’ to Monsanto. We have gone head to head with them over rBST (synthetic bovine growth hormone) and now again over Genetically Engineered alfalfa. What’s more, we are and always have been 100% against allowing GE crops to be planted and for years we’ve fought to protect organic from GE and GE contamination of organic.
Please read the recent blog post from Gary Hirshberg, our CE-Yo: http://www.stonyfield.com/blog/2011/01/29/the-organic-community-must-come-out-swinging-at-the-right-opponents/#comments
We will overturn the USDA decision by standing together in the organic community and speaking with one united voice. Please also read a letter (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-rodale/we-stand-united-in-opposi_b_816637.html) from Maria Rodale, Michael Pollan and other lifelong advocates for organic to learn what we are doing now and what you can do to help.
Best,
Stonyfield Amy
As the Chairman of NOFA-NH’s Public Policy & Advocacy Committee, I must send my great appreciation to Stonyfield for its continued leadership in the valiant fight to stop the deregulation of GE alfalfa. Good fight! Thank you.
I understand the misleading nature of OCA’s message. Now is not the time for devisive language; now is the time to re-gear, re-tool, and re-energize.
I’m sending out an email blast to our membership on Monday with this same message.
Stonyfield, Whole Foods, and Organic Valley are our colleagues. Thank you!
Onward,
Mario Capozzoli
NOFA-NH Chair of Public Policy & Advocacy
As the Chairman of NOFA-NH’s Public Policy & Advocacy Committee, I must send my great appreciation to Stonyfield for its continued leadership in the valiant fight to stop the deregulation of GE alfalfa. Good fight! Thank you.
I understand the misleading nature of OCA’s message. Now is not the time for devisive language; now is the time to re-gear, re-tool, and re-energize.
I’m sending out an email blast to our membership on Monday with this same message.
Stonyfield, Whole Foods, and Organic Valley are our colleagues. Thank you!
Onward,
Mario Capozzoli
NOFA-NH Chair of Public Policy & Advocacy
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