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An Interview with Melanie Warner of Pandora's Lunchbox

Bettina Elias Siegel | Posted 04.16.2013 | Books
Read More: Processed Food, Kraft, Fda, Kids, Melanie Warner, Regulation, Pandora's Lunchbox, Conagra, Chemical Additives, Petition, Book, Pepsico, Interview, Food Dyes, Personal Health, Books News
Bettina Elias Siegel

"On occasions when they ask why they can't have Cheetos, Froot Loops or yogurt in a tube I tell them it's because these things aren't real food. They taste good, but they don't help their bodies grow strong or give them big muscles."

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Court Leaves Kosher Status Up To God (And Rabbis)

AP | Posted 02.04.2013 | Religion
Read More: Video, Hebrew National Lawsuit, Jewish Dietary Laws, Hebrew National, Judaism, Kosher Certification, Hebrew National Hot Dogs, Religious Freedom, Hebrew National Kosher, Triangle K, Conagra, Religion News

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A federal judge threw out a lawsuit Thursday that claimed Hebrew National's hot dogs and other meat products weren't entirely koshe...

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ConAgra Gets Even Bigger

AP | CANDICE CHOI and MICHELLE CHAPMAN | Posted 01.27.2013 | Home
Read More: Food Business, Ralcorp, Conagra Ralcorp, Private Label Food, Conagra, Video, Home News

NEW YORK — ConAgra Foods is set to become the nation's biggest maker of store-brand foods, with a $5 billion purchase of Ralcorp that expands it...

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Why Bread Is No Longer Rising

Rozanne Gold | Posted 12.31.2012 | Home
Read More: Food Trends, Wheat, Bread, Rabobank, Conagra, Carbohydrates, Baum & Whiteman Trends, Snacking, Home News
Rozanne Gold

I was struck by a fascinating web post this week reporting that, as a country, we're consuming sharply declining amounts of wheat products. Given the vast numbers of Big Macs, Subway sandwiches and Domino's pizzas we buy every day, it seemed counterintuitive.

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Hebrew National Hot Dogs Not Kosher, Lawsuit Claims

Reuters | Posted 08.19.2012 | Home
Read More: Kosher, Hebrew National Lawsuit, Video, Hebrew National, Hot Dogs, Hebrew National Hot Dogs, Reuters, Kosher Hot Dogs, Conagra, Home News

* ConAgra sued for alleged deception * Eleven consumers fault meat processing procedures * ConAgra says stands behind He...

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Grain Elevator Blast Victim Devastated Despite Settlement

AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 06.05.2012 | Chicago
Read More: John Jentz Lawsuit, Video, John Jentz Conagra, Illinois Grain Blast, Conagra Explosion Lawsuit, John Jentz, Conagra, Conagra Lawsuit, Chicago News

CHICAGO -- A man who was badly burned when an Illinois grain elevator exploded two years ago knows he may ultimately get a big chunk of the $181 milli...

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Illinois Grain Blast Survivors Awarded $181 Million In Damages

AP | By JIM SUHR | Posted 08.02.2012 | Chicago
Read More: Illinois Workers, Illinois Workers Rights, Grain Elevator Explosion, Conagra Settlement, Illinois Conagra, Conagra, Conagra Lawsuit, Grain Elevator Blast, Chicago News

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- A federal jury sided against ConAgra Foods Inc. and a subcontractor Friday in awarding roughly $181 million in damages to thre...

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Congressman Jared Polis Revisits 'Pizza = School Food Vegetable'

Bettina Elias Siegel | Posted 07.16.2012 | Home
Read More: SLICE Act, Pizza, Frozen Food, Childhood Obesity, School Food, Conagra, Tomato Paste, Jared Polis, Pizza Vegetable, Home 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 | Celebrity
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 | Home
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, Home 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 | Home
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, Home 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 | Impact
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 | Impact
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 | Business
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 | Green
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 | Healthy Living
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 | Business
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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