
Megan Westgate
Executive director of The Non-GMO Project
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Jun 23, 2026
The Value of Food Integrity with Megan Westgate
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6:16PatHOST
But looking back, because you were there in the earliest days, what made the butterfly successful?

Megan WestgateGUEST
Well, it really, I would say it's successful because it was meeting a real demand.

Megan WestgateGUEST
And the original conversation was with the Natural Grocery Company in the Bay Area and Big Carrot Co-op in Toronto and Good Earth.

Megan WestgateGUEST
And so, yeah, Strong, it was really independent and co-ops who were seeing shoppers come in and ask, how do I find the non-GMO food? And there wasn't an answer.

Megan WestgateGUEST
So that ability, like retailers are at such like the critical intersection where our food system, our packaged food system is co-created through retailers.
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20:39PatHOST
And I think it it it almost helps to at least visualize where you got to the answer to my next question, which is why did you decide ultra processed foods were the next big issue? Like, why now?