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BAM! Chipotle goes 100% non-GMO; flatly rejecting the biotech industry and its toxic food ingredients
2015-04-27 07:11:35| Biotech - Topix.net
The free market victories against the sleazy biotech industry are coming at a rapid pace now, and the latest announcement is a real game changer: Chipotle Mexican Grill has outright rejected all GMOs and, as of today, is now serving all non-GMO ingredients in its foods. "When it comes to our food, genetically modified ingredients don't make the cut," says an official announcement on the Chipotle website .
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Dispersants sprayed after Deepwater Horizon oil spill more toxic oil alone
2015-04-26 13:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: The dispersant used in the Deepwater Horizon clean-up appears to be more toxic to corals than crude oil, writes Danielle M DeLeo. It also increases the concentration of oil in seawater, leading to higher, more toxic exposures of oil components when they come into contact with corals and other marine organisms. Corals exposed to higher concentrations of dispersant, alone or mixed with oil, had the greatest health declines. In some cases the corals even appeared to do best in the oil-only treatments....
Whole Foods hosts toxic swimmer for Earth Day
2015-04-22 16:26:52| Grocery - Topix.net
Whole Foods celebrated Earth Day by serving as the kickoff site for environmental activist Christopher Swain's historic swim in a toxic canal. Swain departed from the Whole Foods Market at 134 Street in Brooklyn and swam the polluted Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn despite warnings from federal agencies and health experts.
Toxic Smog Puts Cancer as Leading Cause Death in China
2015-04-15 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Beijings 21-million residents live in a toxic fog of particulate matter, ozone, sulphur dioxide, mercury, cadmium, lead and other contaminants, mainly caused by factories and coal burning. Schools and workplaces regularly shut down when pollution exceeds hazardous levels. People have exchanged paper and cotton masks for more elaborate, filtered respirators. Cancer has become the leading cause of death in the city and throughout the country. Chinese authorities, often reluctant to admit to the extent...
S. Phila. refinery creates toxic air as well as jobs
2015-04-13 14:49:36| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
NICOLE JONIEC'S biggest regret, five years after moving into a century-old rowhouse in South Philadelphia with her husband and their two cats, is that she didn't zoom out a little more when she had checked out her new address on Google Maps. Joniec, 37, who works at the Free Library, said she now feels "silly" that she didn't realize how close they would live to the ancient, sprawling refinery on the banks of the Schuylkill, then owned by Sunoco and which today - with a new owner, Philadelphia Energy Solutions - is booming with crude oil fracked in North Dakota.
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