How Many Cheers For Cheerios?

How Many Cheers For Cheerios?
Boxes of General Mill's "Cheerios" cereal are displayed at Piazza's grocery store in Palo Alto, Calif., Tuesday, June 28, 2011. General Mills Inc.'s fiscal fourth-quarter net income rose 51 percent on stronger sales but was hampered by higher ingredient costs. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
Boxes of General Mill's "Cheerios" cereal are displayed at Piazza's grocery store in Palo Alto, Calif., Tuesday, June 28, 2011. General Mills Inc.'s fiscal fourth-quarter net income rose 51 percent on stronger sales but was hampered by higher ingredient costs. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Well, a major and venerable American brand has gone and announced that it contains no genetically modified organisms (G.M.O.'s). Cheerios is G.M.O.-free! And will soon be labeled “Not Made With Genetically Modified Ingredients.”

Do we care? Should we? Is this a cynical marketing ploy or a huge deal or both? (It certainly isn’t neither.)

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