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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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Post Recession Economic Growth Means Challenging Our Concept of "Normal"

Jenny Darroch | Posted 10.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Telephones, Supermarkets, Economic Growth, Innovation, Strategies for Growth, Marketing Strategy, Recession, Typewriters, Home News
Jenny Darroch

In my last blog, I wrote about the contribution of marketing strategy, and more specifically marketing research, to develop new recipes and ideas that...

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Can Man Challenges End Of Recession

Dan Dorfman | Posted 11.11.2009 | New York

Read More: Morgan Stanley, Recycling, Supermarkets, Soda Cans, Timothy Geithner, Ben Bernanke, Economic Recovery, Aluminum Cans, Recession, New York News
Dan Dorfman

Such informed financial minds as Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner have been telling us for months the recession is history, but just maybe they ought to chat with a can man.

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Is Whole Foods Losing Its Sustainable Luster?

Rob Smart | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

Read More: John Mackey, Farms, Whole Foods, Retail, Conventional Food, Wal-Mart, Farmers, Food, Food Retail, Business, Pro Food, Farmers Market, Community Supported Agriculture, Industrial Food, Sustainable, Organic, Supermarkets, Food Cooperatives, Local, Green News
Rob Smart

Whole Foods' very presence in small regional markets undermines established relationships between regional food retailers and suppliers, including farmers, processors and related service providers.

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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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Guess Who's Controlling Our Food Supply

Rob Smart | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Labeling, Farms, Consumer Food Expenditures, Usda, Pro Food, Monsanto, Industrial Food, Politics, Farmers, Sustainable, Food Retail, Food Safety, Supermarkets, Local, Food Marketing, Regulation, Business, Gmo, Green News
Rob Smart

It is hard to understand how a handful of companies have amassed so much control over food ingredients found in an estimated 75 percent of processed foods in America's supermarkets.

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Real Progress, 30 Years in the Making

Angela Glover Blackwell | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Healthy Food, Michael Nutter, Produce, Adolfo Carrion, Tom Vilsack, Supermarkets, Obama, Philadelphia, Policylink, Urban Affairs, Politics News
Angela Glover Blackwell

For the first time, I can see that the fight for equitable food access is winnable.

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Pushing Produce into Urban Food Deserts

Wendy Gordon | Posted 08.01.2009 | Local

Read More: Simplesteps, Fruit, Vegetables, Supermarkets, Underserved Neighborhoods, Diabetes, Obesity, Whole Grains, Lowfat, Nutritional Foods, Smartercities, Food Deserts, Local News
Wendy Gordon

New York City has approved 1,000 new mobile food carts for neighborhoods in the five boroughs that have long been isolated from traditional supermarkets, grocery stores and farmers' markets.

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Supermarket Suppliers Destroying Amazon Rainforest

The Guardian | David Adam, Environment Correspondent | Posted 07.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Uk, Meat Companies, UK Supermarkets, Rainforest, Brazil, Beef, Green, Supermarkets, Cattle, Amazon Rainforest, Deforestation, Amazon, Green News

Brazilian authorities investigating illegal deforestation have accused the suppliers of several UK supermarkets of selling meat linked to massive dest...

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Eco-Friendly Cleaning Bags -- Say no to Plastic!

Stefanie Michaels | Posted 02.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Green, Supermarkets, Adventure Girl, Clothes, Programs, Green Living, Business, Recycling, EPA Rules, Retail Sales, Bags, Environment, The Green Garmento, Reuse, Plastic, Stefanie Micahels, Dry Cleaners, Global Warming, Plastic Bags, Green News
Stefanie Michaels

Now there seems to be an answer to appeal to both the consumer and dry cleaner that makes "green sense:" The Green Garmento garment bag.

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