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Congressman Jared Polis Revisits 'Pizza = School Food Vegetable'

Bettina Elias Siegel | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: SLICE Act, Pizza, Frozen Food, Childhood Obesity, School Food, Conagra, Tomato Paste, Jared Polis, Pizza Vegetable, Food News
Bettina Elias Siegel

The agricultural spending bill that gutted the pizza rule will expire at the end of the current fiscal year, i.e, September 2012, creating an opportunity to revisit the issue.

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How Jewel Inspires

S.Z. Berg | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Project Clean Water, You Were Meant for Me, Hunger, Alaska, Jewel, Here's Hope, Who Will Save Your Soul, The Voice, Homeless, Pieces of You, Album, Cd, Conagra, Child Hunger Ends Here, Platinum Recording Artist, Celebrity News
S.Z. Berg

It wasn't like Jewel was trying to "make it" when it happened. She was just trying to make it from one meal to the next. No, her hunger wasn't for fame, it was the real hunger, the kind that having the misfortune of being born into poverty brings.

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ConAgra's Bait-And-Switch

Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: George Duran, Sotto Terra, Marie Callendar's Frozen Meals, Bloggers, Phil Lempert, Marie Callendar's, Conagra Bait and Switch, Underground Restaurant, Underground-Restaurants, Conagra, Conagra Bloggers, Ketchum, Food News

About a month ago, HuffPost Food, along with many food bloggers, received an email from the PR agency Ketchum. Our invitation read: We would like t...

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Cooking Oil Maker Sued Over Fishy 'All-Natural' Claims

Posted 10.25.2011

Read More: All Natural Regulations, Canola Oil, Gmos, Conagra All Natural, All Natural, All Natural Lawsuit, ConAgra Foods, All Natural Canola Oil, Conagra Lawsuit, Conagra, Food News

A class action lawsuit has been filed against ConAgra Foods regarding the company's use of the term "all-natural" in the packaging and advertising for...

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Food Giant And Hunger Charity Join Forces To Solve Child Hunger

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Solving Hunger, Nourish Today Flourish Tomorrow, Hunger, Conagra, Feeding America, Child Hunger, Al Roker, Feeding Kids, Impact News

Up to one in four children in the U.S. go to bed hungry every night. That is the message ConAgra and Feeding America, with the help of Al Roker, hav...

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America's Problem of Child Hunger (Video)

Vicki B. Escarra | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Child Hunger, Hunger, Hungry Kids, Nbc, Feeding America, Conagra, Vilsack, Childhood, Al Roker, Impact News
Vicki B. Escarra

Child hunger is a crisis in America and as long-term unemployment and under-employment continue, a greater number of children will go without enough to eat.

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Oil Market Manipulation has Crude Prices Sky High

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Lobbyists, Oil, Obama Administration, Conagra, Department of Energy, Opec, Wall Street Journal, Nymex, Cftc, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

The current price of crude taken together with the country's jobless rate makes no sense at all. Clearly the price of oil has lost all ballast to the dynamic of supply and demand.

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Nutritionism: The Numbers Game That Doesn't Add Up To Good Health

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Healthy Eating, Conagra, Nutritionism, Joan Dye Gussow, Healthy Choice, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nutrients, Green News
Kerry Trueman

I'm not out to mock Julia Louis-Dreyfus's apparent hypocrisy, here. What really galls me about Healthy Choice is what it represents: the triumph of that dubious dietary trend, "nutritionism."

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A Darker Shade of Green

Elissa Altman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Usda, Whole Foods, Emeril Lagasse, New York Times, Sustainability, Washington Post, Conagra, Nebraska Beef, Coleman Meats, Food, Healthy Living News
Elissa Altman

It's been a bang-up week in the increasingly green world we food professionals inhabit. To start, New York Times contributor Alessandra Staley brillia...

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Food Companies Suspected Of Jacking Up Prices For Military Suppliers

Wall Street Journal | Glenn R. Simpson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sara Lee, MIlitary Food Supply, ConAgra, Public Warehousing, Perdue Farms, Business News

Prominent American food companies are under scrutiny in a federal probe of possible fraud and corruption in the military's food-supply operations for ...

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