Food Industry

This Is Why You're Fat: The 2012 Farm Bill and the Real Obesity Lobby

Suzanne Merkelson | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: U.S. Senate, Farm Bill, Obesity Crisis, 2012 Farm Bill, Lobbying, Obesity, Beverage Industry, Monsanto, Childhood Obesity, Food Industry, Farm Subsidies, Politics News

The food and beverage industry has been relentless in Washington lately, more than doubling their spending in Washington during the past three years, completely outpacing public interest groups looking out for children's health.

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Mind-Boggling Nutrition Guidance? You Betcha'!

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 05.11.2012

The National Consumers League, claiming to represent consumers' interests, issued a press release this week announcing they had submitted a complaint to the FDA, asking the agency to banish NuVal from the nation's supermarkets.

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Nestlé Uses Avalanche Research To Improve Its Ice Cream

Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Nestle Avalanche Ice Cream, New Ice Cream Nestle, Video, Nestle Avalanche Study, Ice Cream Nestle, Nestle Ice Cream, Nestle Avalanche, Nestle, Nestle Ice Cream Study, Food Industry, Food News

Forget the tempest in the teapot. Thanks to Nestle, you'll soon be able to taste the avalanche in the ice cream cup. The Swiss company has been us...

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Toxic Chemicals in U.S. Food Packaging Must Go

Ken Cook | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, FDA Ban BPA, Bpa, Ewg, Food Safety, Fda, Bpa Ban, Food Industry, Food News

A chemical that can disrupt hormone function and potentially cause cancers, diabetes, infertility and brain disorders should not be contaminating the food that millions eat every day.

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Limbaugh: Liberals Want to Control Your Food!

Kristin Wartman | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Food Justice, Elites, Rush Limbaugh, Liberals, Corporations, The American Way of Eating, Tracie McMillan, Big Food, Food Industry, Food News

Limbaugh's a little late to the game on this one, the term food justice is hardly news and he joins an already long line of conservatives who criticize any attempt to reign in Big Food.

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A Budget Cut Only the Produce Industry Could Love

Michele Simon | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Food Safety, Produce, Food Industry, Food Politics, Microbiological Data Program, Food Safety Modernization Act, Food News

It's not like this is some wasteful government program. It's a relatively cheap way to help save lives, so what's going on?

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Nestle Says 2011 Was Good, But 2012 May Not Be

AP | By JOHN HEILPRIN | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Video, Nestle Profits, Food Industry Profits, Nestle Earnings Call, Nestle q4 Earnings Call, Nestle Earnings Call q4 2011, Nestle Revenue, Nestle 2011 Results, Nestle, Food Industry, Food News

GENEVA -- Nestle SA, the world's biggest food and drinks maker, managed to brush aside the impact of a soaring domestic currency to post a solid incre...

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3 More Pepsi Brands Join $1 Billion Club

AP | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Pepsico $1 Billion Brand, Food Companies, Brisk, Mountain Dew, Starbucks, Starbucks Bottled Drinks, Pepsi $1 Billion Club, Pepsi Billion Dollar Brand, Pepsico, Food Industry, Video, Food News

PepsiCo $1 Billion Club Gets 3 New Members: Mountain Dew, Brisk, Starbucks

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Mega Food Corporation Cuts 1,000 Jobs

AP | DAVID MERCER and CHRISTOPHER LEONARD | Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Agribusiness, Archer Daniels Midland Job Cuts, Patricia Woertz, Archer Daniels Midland Layoffs, Archer Daniels Midland, Food Industry, Video, Food News

DECATUR, Ill. — Agribusiness conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland Co. announced plans Wednesday to cut 1,000 mostly salaried jobs as it navigates...

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The Food Companies That Spent The Most On Lobbying This Year

Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Video, Lobbyists Food Industry, Lobbying, Food Company Lobbyists, Lobbyists, Food Beverage Lobbying, Food Lobbyists, Slidepollajax, Lobbyist Spending, Food Industry, Food News

A lot of the attention on the intersection between food and the U.S. legislature recently has focused on the impending revision of the Farm Bill. Thou...

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Our Pre-Occupied Food Industry: Can America Become a 'Good Food' Nation?

Paula Daniels | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Farm Bill, Genetically Modified Food, Fast Food, Holidays, Organic Food, Los Angeles, Food Industry, Thanksgiving, Impact News

This big price of cheap is a paradox that is familiar to many, but in this season, the nested ironies are worth remembering.

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Pizza Is A Vegetable? Congress Defies Logic, Betrays Our Children

Kristin Wartman | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: Occupy BIg Food, Congress on School Lunch, Congress on Pizza, Pizza Is a Vegetable, Food Politics, Food Industry, School Lunches, Food News

If there were any lingering doubts as to whom our elected representatives really work for, they were put to rest Tuesday when Congress announced that frozen pizza was a vegetable.

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Eat What You Want, Pay What You Can

Anna Brones | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Free Restaurants, Community Service, Jon Bon Jovi, Restaurants, Food Scarcity, Volunteer, Food Politics, Food, Community, Food Industry, Food News

When you go to a museum and there's a donation box, but no set entrance fee, how much do you put in? Enter, pay-what-you-can restaurants: order a meal and then decide how much you think it's worth, or give what you can afford.

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Do You Really Know What Fish You're Eating?

Posted 12.29.2011

Read More: Raw Fish, Video, Fish Labeling, Red Snapper, White Tuna, East Coast Fishing, Fish, Fish Makets, Fish Industry, Food Industry, Food News

The next time you go out for a sushi dinner, you might want to ask yourself: Do you really know what you're eating? Consumer Reports sent fresh an...

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Technology's Place in Transforming Agriculture

Elizabeth McVay Greene | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Food, Supply Chain, Community Supported Agriculture, Farming, Farmers Markets, Agriculture, Farming Business, Agriculture Business, Agribusiness, Food Suppliers, Food Industry, Business News

The distended relationship between farms and individuals is the fundamental problem in the food system we've inherited. Supply chains and the corporate cultures that house them keep information isolated.

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Let's Tell Big Food to Stop Acting Like Spoiled Kids -- and Stop Inciting Real Kids to Nag for Junk Food

Susan Linn | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Junk Food Marketing, Nutrition, Food Industry, Health Food, Fast Food Marketing, Children's Health, Children Food Marketing, Healthy Living News

As concern about childhood obesity escalates, the barrage of kid-targeted marketing for unhealthy food is increasingly identified as a factor -- not the sole cause, but an important part of the problem -- which could easily be remedied.

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Obesity Problem Is About Personal Responsibility and Access

Michelle Bernard | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Healthy Eating, Healthy Eating Habits, Childhood Nutrition, Child Nutrition, Nutrition, Food Industry, Food News

The food and advertising industry is often cast as the callous, corporate villain for a problem that, in truth, is really about personal responsibility and access to healthy and affordable foods.

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Food Industry Would Prefer to Regulate Itself

Kristin Wartman | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Let's Move, Public Policy, Nutrition, Dietary Guidelines, Food Industry, Food News

Food corporations enjoy carte blanche on what they can say about their foods, how and to whom they advertise, and even (to a large degree) the ingredients they choose to put in their foods.

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Farmers Not To Blame For High Food Prices

AP | MICHAEL J. CRUMB | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: US Economy, Food Inflation, High Food Prices, US Agriculture, Economy, Corn, Farmers, Corn Crop, Renewable Fuels Association, National Corn Growers Association, Usda, Ethanol Industry, Food Industry, Food News

DES MOINES, Iowa — Farmers and ethanol producers have braced for what they expect could be widespread criticism as corn prices are rising rapidl...

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Feds Go After Culinary Schools

Slashfood | Clare Leschin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chefs, For-Profit Schools, Federal Student Loans, Department of Education, Tiffany Derry, Le Cordon Bleu, Culinary School Tuition, Culinary Workers, Student Loan Debt, Student Loans, Culinary School, Food Industry, Food News

Federal regulators are threatening to crack down on for-profit schools that are eager to take students' cash, but aren't necessarily coming through wi...

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Little-Known Provision In New Food Safety Law

AP | STEVE KARNOWSKI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food Safety, Peanut Corp, Fda, Food Safety Bill, Food Safety Modernization Act, Government Accountability Project, Food Industry, Food News

MINNEAPOLIS — Food industry workers who become whistleblowers gained protection against retaliation from their employers with a little-noticed p...

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The Daily Meal Names America's 50 Most Powerful People In Food

The Daily Meal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chefs, Food Industry, Food News

In the food world, the people with power are the ones who affect what and how and where and why we eat -- or who can, if they want to. They're the agr...

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Chefs' Favorite Classic Cookbooks

Find. Eat. Drink. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Paul Prudhomme, Meg Ray, Baking, Cookbooks, Cheese, Holidays, Christmas, Pork and Sons, Max McCalman, Zuni Cafe, Joy of Cooking, Larousse Gastronomic, Gramercy Tavern, The Cake Bible, La Fonda Del Sol, Slidepollajax, San Francisco, Dicksons Farmstand Meats, Gifts, Miette, Cookbook, Food, Food Industry, Food and Related Products, Food and Drink, Holiday Gifts, Christmas Gifts, Food News

Whether for the holidays or to buy for yourself, these are the cookbooks the pros - chefs, bakers, butchers, cheesemongers - have found inspiring an...

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Starbucks-Kraft Split Gets Messy

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kraft, Kraft Starbucks, Starbucks, Food Industry, Starbucks Kraft, Food News

NORTHFIELD, Ill. — Kraft Foods Inc. is seeking a preliminary injunction against Starbucks Corp., saying that the coffee chain violated terms of ...

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Food Stamps Soda Ban: The Wrong Way to Fight Obesity

Joel Berg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Soda Ban, Food Stamps, Obesity Epidemic, Michael Bloomberg, Snap-Benefits, Food Insecurity, Soda Tax, USDA Food Stamps, Food Industry, New York News

Well-heeled conservatives and progressives always seem to unite on one issue: dictating that poor people should behave more virtuously than they themselves do.

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