Whole Foods Dumps Silk Soy
September 27, 2010 | 1 min to read
Whole Foods will no longer carry Dean Foods' Silk Soy milk–instead goes with organic brands.
Last year, Silk Soy–while continuing to offer a somewhat higher-priced organic option–pushed the majority of its soy milk to "natural" (the beans still weren't genetically modified [GMO], which is great).
It was a blow to the green movement–and one that changed Silk, overnight, from the world's largest organic brand into, well, not.
Recently, I interviewed my friends at the Dean Foods-owned White Wave/Silk Soy about their decision to go "natural." To their credit, they were open about the up- and downsides.
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