Tag: Featured Living
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New Investigation Finds Hazardous Chemicals in Kids Clothing
A new investigation by Greenpeace has found a broad range of hazardous chemicals in children’s clothing and footwear across a number of major clothing brands, including fast fashion, sportswear and luxury brands. [caption id="attachment_317861" align="alignnone" width="500"] A total of 82 children’s textile products were purchased in 25 countries worldwide from flagship stores. Photo courtesy of…
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Big Biotech Sues Little Island Over GMO Law
By Maureen Nandini Mitra As was expected, Big Biotech’s legal juggernaut has rolled into action in Hawai’i. On Friday afternoon, three big agrochemical companies—Pioneer-DuPont, Syngenta and Agrigenetics Inc. (a subsidiary of Dow Chemical)—filed a suit in a federal court in Honolulu seeking to block Kaua’i County’s new genetically modified organism (GMO) regulatory law. Two other big agribusiness…
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Maine Governor Signs GMO Food Labeling Bill
Maine Gov. Paul LePage signed legislation today making Maine the second state to require labeling for genetically engineered (GE) foods. The GE food labeling will not take effect until five contiguous states enact similar legislation. [caption id="attachment_317454" align="alignnone" width="500"] Polls show 90-95 percent of Americans want GE food labeling. In 2013, 50 bills were introduced…
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Find Out if Your Facial Scrub Has Plastic Microbeads With New App
By Lindsay Dunbar Plastic microbeads, often found in personal hygiene products, are getting rinsed down the drain and ending up in the Great Lakes and other waterways. To alert customers to these barely visible plastics, a new smartphone App lets consumers scan barcodes to see if a product contains the beads. The App was developed…
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General Mills Pulls GMOs From Original Cheerios
By Leslie Hatfield A new year meant a new formula for a classic cereal. For most of 2013, conscientious consumers led by Green America’s GMO Inside campaign kept pressure on General Mills to remove genetically modified ingredients from its iconic brand, Cheerios. And it worked—the company announced the change on Jan. 2. [caption id="attachment_317263" align="alignnone" width="500"] Only “classic”…