Weekly Links: Haircare Developments, GMO Updates, & Big Box News

Send to KindleTweet Link love from this week and last – hipsters at hotels outside Manhattan (I know, brace yourself), Nordstrom may finally arrive on NYC soil, hair care innovations, GMO updates and more! L’Oreal apparently has some new hair cair ingredient dubbed neogenic that could possibly help improve hair density, according to Cosmetics Design. [...]

GMO Spotlight: Spuds

Send to KindleTweet Are you ready for GMO french fries? You better be because at this very moment, now that the Europeans have rejected GMO foods, multinationals are testing genetically engineered potatoes on U.S. soil. I don’t trust anything that involves a company that has been part of 1) agent orange 2) the making of [...]

U.S. Gov’t Deregulates Genetically Modified Alfalfa

Send to KindleTweet The Department of Agriculture has moved to deregulate genetically engineered alfalfa. The decision is a win for one of America’s biggest agricultural companies, publicly traded Monsanto, which developed a Roundup Ready alfalfa seed with Forage Genetics International (FGI). Genetically engineered seeds are usually touted by the makers as having three benefits: higher [...]

European Union Member States Debate GMO Crops

Send to KindleTweet A few member states of the European Union are debating genetically modified organisms, specifically potatoes. A form of genetically engineered potato was approved by the European Commission in March 2010, for use to develop industrial starch. BASF‘s approved GE potato, Amflora, received the OK from the EC in March and was to [...]

An 11-Year-Old Takes On the Food “System”

Send to KindleTweet This amazing 11 year old, Birke Baehr, spoke at a TED event about what is wrong with the food system in America and what we can do to change things. From pesticides and genetically modified seeds, to sugar-laden cereals and marketing to kids, this kid makes amazing points. Most important, though, is [...]