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Center for Food Safety Urges Mars and Hersheys to Stop Using GM Sugar Beets
From the Center for Food Safety: Today the Center for Food Safety, along with environmental and corporate watchdog groups, launched the Non-Genetically Modified (GM) Beet Sugar Registry, documenting...
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L.A. Green Bean is Back….for Now
For those LAgb fans out there, sorry for the long hiatus. Also, our site lost a few archives, resulting in missing stories since February '09. Not to worry — we seem to have fixed the problem. We're...
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Happy New Year! LAgb is back!
Welcome Back! Or shall we say, welcome us back! Thanks for the LAgb fans out there that stuck it out with us. It was a crazy 2009, and we can't wait to update you on the exciting stories we left...
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"Obama Jacket" Made from Sweatshop Labor
A jacket LAgb will not be buying this winter. From the National Labor Committee: The Weatherproof Garment Company has mounted a huge billboard on 7th Avenue in New York City's Times Square advertising...
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NFL Condones Workers Abuse, Women Paid $0.10 Under Extreme Labor Conditions
Football is great, but NFL needs a bucket of chicken thrown at them. From the National Labor Committee: NFL jerseys have been sewn under illegal sweatshop conditions at the Chi Fung factory in El...
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Fish Oil Takers Beware – Ten Fish Oil Supplements Found with Dangerous Levels...
Some fish oil capsules sold as health supplements for their Omega-3 fatty acids content have illegally undisclosed unnecessarily high levels of contamination with polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)...
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L.A. Kids Living in New “Eco-Smart” Development May Suffer from Asthma and...
Poor kids. L.A. should get with the mass transit. From the L.A. Weekly On a recent afternoon in the Eastside neighborhood of Lincoln Heights, Fay Green stands in the hallway of her apartment complex,...
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High Fructose Corn Syrup Makes you Fatter than Average Table Sugar
A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than...
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After More than a Decade, EPA Plans to Add to Toxic Release Inventory List
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to add 16 chemicals to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) list of reportable chemicals, the first expansion of the program in more than a...
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New L.A. Green Bean Starts Fresh
Hi LAgb fans. It’s been a long time since we’ve posted. Sorry about that. We finally made the switch to give LAgb its much needed makeover. So, please be patient if you notice that some of the old...
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