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You wanted GMO food labels? The marketplace is listening.
It’s a victory for the consumers who worry about genetically engineered foods -- also called GMO or genetically modified -- that Whole Foods will label all such foods in its markets. Well, at least it’s a long-term victory; the organic-foods...
Tags: Whole Foods Market, Dining and Drinking, Consumer Goods Industries, Food Industry, Organic Foods
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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: Medical Procedures and Tests, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, European Union, Consumers
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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: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Whole Foods Market, Consumer Goods Industries
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Bumble Bee recalls 2.4 million cans of tuna with loose seals
Bumble Bee Foods recalled 2.4 million cans of tuna this week because of loose seals, the San Diego-based company said Thursday. The affected products -- 5-ounce cans of chunk white albacore and chunk light tuna sold under the Bumble Bee and Brunswick...
Tags: Product Recalls, Canned Tuna
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Bills would require labels on genetically engineered food in Minnesota
Minnesota could become the next battleground in the fight over mandatory labels for genetically modified food. Bills were introduced on Feb. 28 in the Minnesota Legislature that would require food manufacturers to label their products to indicate...Tags: General Mills Incorporated, Science and Technology, Consumers, Agricultural Research and Technology, Minnesota Legislature
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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, Monsanto Company, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Food Industry, Semiconductors and Active Components
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Letters: Monsanto's court fight over its seeds
Re “Seeds of Dissent,” Opinion, Feb. 19, and “Justices consider patented seeds case,” Feb. 20 I understand a company's desire to control the use of products it has created and patented, and the importance such a right plays in its...
Tags: Consumers
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The Scripps deal: great ambitions, modest payoff in jobs so far
It was heralded as one of the greatest economic boons in Florida history, akin to the creation of Walt Disney World, the Kennedy Space Center, the air conditioner. But nearly a decade later, this much is clear. The ambitious plan for a world-class...
Tags: Ron Klein, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Colleges and Universities, Boston, Germany
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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: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Genetics, Conservation, Research, Science and Technology
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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: Monsanto Company, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Science and Technology, Consumers, Dining and Drinking
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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: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health and Safety at Work, Mining, Environmental Politics, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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