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Food Lobby Mobilizes, As Soda Tax Bubbles Up

HuffPost Investigative Fund | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Funds, Fast Food, Congress, Nhma, Snapple, Senate Finance Committee, Lobbyists, Agriculture, American Beverage Association, Soda Tax, Food Loby, Funding, Hispanics, National Corn Growers Association, Health Insurance, Policy, National Hispanic Medical Associaiton, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Coca-Cola, Soft Drinks, Chuck Grassley, Dr. Pepper, Food Politics, Health Care, Beverage Tax, Aba, Lobbying, Corn, Americans Against Food Taxes, Supermarkets, Coke, Alex Padilla, Pepsi, Corn Syrup, Nutrition, Grocery Stores, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Green News

By Christine Spolar, Huffington Post Investigative Fund and Joseph Eaton, Staff Writer, Center for Public Integrity Washington lobbyists have been en...

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Latino Firm Opening Supermarket In Food Desert

Chicago Public Radio | Chip Mitchell | Posted 11.24.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Food Desert, Chicago Food Deserts, RincóN Capital, Grocery Stores, Back of the Yards, Chicago News

A Latino-led private-equity firm has agreed to open a supermarket in a Chicago area that's been labeled a food desert....

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Food, Retail Deserts Cause South Siders To Spend Billions In Other Areas

Chicago Public Radio | Natalie Moore | Posted 10.17.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Food Deserts, South Side Food Deserts, Kenwood, Retail Leakage, Grocery Stores, Chicago South Side, Chicago News

South Side of Chicago residents are forced to spend billions of dollars each year outside of their communities. There are few restaurants or retail sh...

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Armed Paramilitaries Guarding Detroit Grocery Stores

CNNMoney.Com | Steve Hargreaves | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Farming, Food Banks, Economy, Urban Farming, Middle Class, Supermarket Guards, Recession, Hunger, Grocery Stores, Detroit, Supermarket, Financial Crisis, Armed Guards, Michigan, Detroit Michigan, Business News

On a side street in an old industrial neighborhood, a delivery man stacks a dolly of goods outside a store. Ten feet away stands another man clad in m...

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Seeing Through the Food Industry's "Personal Responsibility" Smoke Screen

Rob Smart | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Consumer Food Expenditures, Retail, Conventional Food, Personal Responsibility, Family, Cooking, Food, Food Retail, Community, Home Cooking, Business, Innovation, Food Preparation, Triple Bottom Line, Pro Food, Eating, Industrial Food, Sustainable, Supermarkets, Food Marketing, Local, Consumers, Real Food, Grocery Prices, Walmart, Unhealthy Food, Food Politics, Cheap Groceries, Healthy Food, Healthy Eating, Cargill, General Mills, Food Policy, Family-Meal-Time, Healthy Eating Habits, Grocery Shopping, Family Meals, Unhealthy Eating, Local Food, The-Food-Revolution, Grocery Stores, Green News
Rob Smart

"Personal responsibility" is used as a smoke screen to cover the tracks of industrial food, tracks that run roughshod over the mirage of choice and personal responsibility.

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This Injustice Is Bananas

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 09.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Marc Kielburger, Bananas, Latin America, Craig Kielburger, Grocery Stores, Supermarkets, Banana Plantations, Green News
Craig and Marc Kielburger

The banana is one of North America's favorite fruits. But rarely do we wonder how the item gets to our cold, northern climate or how we can make things better for those who pick them.

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Too Poor to Get the Groceries Home?

Valerie Tarico | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Reciprocity, Seattle Referendum 1, Grocery Bag Fee, Plastics, Reusable Grocery Bags, Seattle-Washington, Grocery Stores, Working-Poor, Chemical-Industry, Grocery Shopping, Helping the Poor, Green-Grocery-Bags, Politics News
Valerie Tarico

It's time to stop the utter condescension that says harried poor people can't learn new tricks too or be expected to inconvenience themselves for the common good.

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More Retailers Accept Food Stamps During Recession

usatoday.com | By Jayne O'Donnell and Rachel Huggins | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Retailers, Poverty, Food Stamps, Electronic Benefit Transfers, Recession, Grocery Stores, Business News

More retailers are accepting food stamps, as a record number of consumers are turning to government aid to pay for groceries. Nearly 39 million peopl...

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Real Food Rehab: The Best Tasting Food On Earth

Dana Joy Altman | Posted 05.30.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Local Food, Sustainable Food, Health, Grocery Stores, Farmers Markets, Santa Monica Farmers Market, Local Farmers, Food Matters, Chicago Farmers Markets, Eating Locally, Food, Chicago News
Dana Joy Altman

Your local farmers' market is where you will find the most beautiful, wonderful tasting, alive, fresh foods you can possibly get your hands on.

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Jewel Slashing Prices At Chicago Grocery Stores

Crain's Chicago Business | Posted 05.24.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Jewel Osco, Jewel Prices, Grocery Stores, Food Prices, Recession, Chicago News

Jewel-Osco is cutting prices up to 20% on thousands of items in a push to attract cash-strapped shoppers and fend of discounters. ...

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The Positive Economics of Food Stamps

Don McNay | Posted 04.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Bookmaker, Welfare, Wall Street Bailout, Food Stamps, Economy, Gambler, Cincinnati, Main Street, Aig, Don McNay, Stimulus, Bookies, Merrill Lynch, Food Stamp Program, Bailout, Grocery Stores, Kentucky, Food, Economic Stimulus, Personal Finance, Citigroup, Business News
Don McNay

A program that gives back $1.73 for every dollar spent is a better return than Wall Street is offering.

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Economy In A Tailspin

Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 03.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Retailers, Unemployment, Economy, Grocery Stores, Jobless, Jobless Claims, Retail, Factory Orders, Unemployment Rate, Recession, Business News

The number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits last week surged to 626,000--the highest level since 1982. At the same time, the number ...

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I Was a Victim of the Peanut Butter Recall

Scott Dodd | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Salmonella Peanut Butter, Personal Health, Books, The New York Times, Email, Omnivore's Dilemma, Fresh Direct, Fda, Eating Local, Peanut Butter, New York City, Michael Pollan, Bush Administration, Food and Drug Safety, Health, Grocery Stores, Fast Food Nation, Eating Locally, The Omnivore's Dilemma, New York Times, Peanut Butter Salmonella, Food and Drug Administration, Peanut Butter Recall, Living News
Scott Dodd

I can't say that I was in the dark when I bought my honey-roasted peanut butter last week, but like so many people, I had the impression that someone was looking out for me.

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The Immortality of the Name

Earl Pomerantz | Posted 03.02.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Living, Jokes, Names, Humor, Kids, Children, Shopping, Grocery Stores, Parenting, Comedy News
Earl Pomerantz

It's fun watching kids learning stuff they didn't know. Grownups are more knowledgeable, of course. But we may not be as knowledgeable as we think.

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America's 10 Healthiest Grocery Stores

msnbc.com | Pamela Paul | Posted 12.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Personal Health, Healthy Grocery Stores, Grocery Stores, Living News

Let's face it: Your weekly (or daily!) run to the grocery store is the foundation for your good health. So it's thrilling news that the supermarket in...

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Prime Borrowers Penalized While the Sub-Prime are Subsidized

Grant Cardone | Posted 03.02.2009 | Business

Read More: America Business, Subprime Mortgages, Auto Dealers, Grocery Stores, Banks, Bad Service, Failure, Grant Cardone, Customer Service, Auto Manufacturers, Business News
Grant Cardone

Everywhere I look today the chant of our culture is "reward, support, subsidize, and bail out the losers and penalize those the winners and the ethical!

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Grocery Stores Teaching How To Feed A Family On A Shoestring

New York Times | Stephanie Rosenbloom and Andrew Martin | Posted 11.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Depression, Economy, Grocery Stores, Personal Finance, Thrift, Recession, Money Saving, Business News

Home economics, that lost art in which generations of students learned to keep a household going on a tight budget, is making a comeback. Only this ti...

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Grocer, Can You Make a Profit?

Mari Gallagher | Posted 10.16.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Healthy Eating, Grocery Stores, Food Desert, Chicago Food Deserts, Obesity, Civil Rights, American Food Deserts, Chicago News
Mari Gallagher

We spend billions of dollars in this country treating diseases that could be moderated or prevented by better and healthier food access and choice. A great number of these treatments are for the uninsured and take place in the emergency room. This is not cost-effective.

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Brother, Can You Spare an Apple?

Mari Gallagher | Posted 10.10.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Inner City Poverty Campaigns, Chicago Food Choices, Fresh Food and Cities, Food Choices, Poverty, Roseland, Public Health, American Food Deserts, Food Deserts, National Food Desert Awareness Month, Grocery Stores, South Side Food Desert, Food, Chicago Food Deserts, Community Organizing, Chicago News
Mari Gallagher

Can the market do well by doing some good? Why not? In Chicago alone we have identified a half-million-plus people who live in a Food Desert with no or distant grocery stores but nearby access to fast food.

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9 Ways to Cut Down on Food Waste

Maura Judkis | Posted 09.08.2008 | Green

Read More: How to Save Money, Recipes, Compost, Refrigerators, Grocery Stores, Waste, Food, Green Living, Grocery Lists, Green News
Maura Judkis

Nearly half of all food in America goes to waste. Setting aside for a minute the "finish your supper, there are starving children in China" implications of this, think of your grocery bill.

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Eating Local or Not: It Depends

Graham Hill | Posted 09.07.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Local Produce, Organic Farming, Farming, Local Food, Organic Food, Grocery Stores, Vegetables, Food, Eating Locally, Life Cycle, Local Farmers, Green News
Graham Hill

The burning question: local vs. imported. When we want to make the best food decision what should we choose?

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4 Easy Ways to Be a Freegan

Maura Judkis | Posted 08.06.2008 | Green

Read More: How to Save Money, Freegan, U.S. News & World Report, Dumpster Diving, How to Save Money on Food, Freeganism, Save Money Groceries, Grocery Stores, Green, Green Living, The Giving Life, Green News
Maura Judkis

Conventional wisdom states that dumpster-diving is for the homeless. Freegans, however, are a small anticonsumerist group who won't allow anything use...

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Would You Kill What You Eat?

Graham Hill | Posted 07.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Eggs, Food, Chickens, Organic Food, Meat, Organic, Impact of Eating Meat, Grocery Stores, Green News
Graham Hill

From cruel conditions, to carbon footprint, to waste of packaging, to harmful chemicals -- there's so much going on with that food on your plate before you see it.

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Grocery Store Misses Sales Target By 70 Percent

Los Angeles Times | Jerry Hirsch | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Tesco, U.S. Stores, Grocery Chains, Simon Uwins, Fresh & Easy, Recession, Grocery Stores, Shoppers, Business News

Fresh isn't turning out to be all that easy. With much fanfare, British retailer Tesco this fall billed its Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market chain of...

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