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European Union bans sale of cosmetics tested on animals
Cosmetics made with ingredients tested on animals is no longer allowed in the European Union, under a ban that took effect Monday. The European Commission, the governing body for the 27-country EU, said in a statement that the new rule “is in line...
Tags: European Union, Consumers, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Whole Foods Going To Label All GMO Products By 2018
Whole Foods, which already sells lots of non-genetically modified stuff, has announced it's going to require everything it its stores to be labeled as GMO non-GMO by 2018. Here's a Reuters story on the move. This comes on the heels of reports that...Tags: Whole Foods Market
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Whole Foods to label all genetically modified products by 2018
Whole Foods Market, the supermarket chain known for its organic inventory, said Friday that it will aim for “full GMO transparency” within five years. By 2018, the Austin, Texas, chain plans to slap labels on all products in its U.S. and...
Tags: Whole Foods Market, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Consumer Goods Industries
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How Obama is wielding executive power in 2nd term
WASHINGTON (AP) — This is what "Forward" looks like. Fast forward, even. President Barack Obama's campaign slogan is springing to life in a surge of executive directives and agency rule-making that touch many of the affairs of government. They are...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Litigation and Regulation, Conservation, Insurance, Parties and Movements
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Review: No wonder the dinosaurs of 'Triassic Parq' are so edgy
If writers of the 20th century could be categorized by the war they lived through, today’s scribes might be grouped by the blockbuster movie that came out when they were about 7. The silly, raunchy, sweet “Triassic Parq: The Musical,” at...
Tags: Jurassic Park (movie), Paleontology, Morgan Freeman, Music, Fringe Festival
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Activist formerly opposed to GMOs explains his change of heart
It’s not often that you hear someone stand up in front of a microphone and tell the world they have been wrong about a high-profile issue. But that’s exactly what Mark Lynas did last week at the Oxford Farming Conference in Oxford, England,...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Dining and Drinking, Conservation, Lifestyle and Leisure, Science
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Monsanto, the court and the seeds of dissent
On Tuesday, attorneys for the largest agrochemical corporation in the world, Monsanto, will present arguments before the Supreme Court asserting the company's rights to the generations of seeds that naturally reproduce from its genetically modified...Tags: Invention and Innovation, Agriculture, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Food Industry, Monsanto Company
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Connecticut Food Activists Skeptical of Wal-Mart's Apparent Switch on GMO Labeling
You’d think that having a food-industry monster like Wal-Mart talking to federal regulators about labeling products that contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs) would have anti-GMO types jumping for joy. The New York Times and other...Tags: Walmart, The New York Times, Consumers, Food and Drug Administration, Food Industry
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Soy fish food could open markets for South Dakota farmers
BROOKINGS - Research into alternative fish feed could jump-start the fish-farming industry in South Dakota and provide a new market for soybean farmers, proponents hope. "Our target here, our aim, is to reduce operating costs by producing these novel...Tags: Environmental Issues, Aquaculture, Conservation, Seafood, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Supreme Court: Justices leaning toward Monsanto in seed battle
WASHINGTON - Vernon Hugh Bowman seems comfortable with the old way of doing things, right down to the rotary-dial telephone he said he was using in a conference call with reporters. But the 75-year-old Indiana farmer figured out a way to benefit from...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure, Arable Farming, Consumers, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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68 pythons found — gulp!
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesEven if you're not Indiana Jones, snakes can set your teeth on edge. So, those of us terrified of snakes ...... -
The Supreme Court mulls a patent over a 'product of life'
In an Op-Ed article for The Times on Tuesday, George Kimbrell and Debbie Barker of the Center for Food Safety present a forceful argument against patents on seeds or any other "product of life." The issue arises because the Supreme Court is considering...
Tags: Vaccines, Agriculture, Anthony Kennedy, John G. Roberts, Jr., Crime, Law and Justice
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