Tag: food
Removing Artificial Ingredients Helped Turn Around Cereal Sales
General Mills is selling more Cheerios, Lucky Charms, and other products, reversing losses suffered last year.
If There Are No New Farmers, Who Will Grow Our Food?
Programs across the country are trying to make it easier for new farmers to get started and put down roots. Here's why: There's only one farmer under 35 for every six over 65. By 2030, one-quarter of America's current farmers will retire.
The Rise of the Food eVangelist
Highly opinionated consumers account for a growing percentage of the global market.
The Future of Food: 16 Most Exciting Stories for 2016
Here we have selected 16 stories that represent the most exciting food trends for 2016.
WHO Announces Processed Meat Causes Cancer
According to the World Health Organization, it now classifies processed meats as a major cause of cancer, alongside cigarettes. Will this newest development encourage Americans to cutback on their meat intake?
Big Food and Hotel Giants Trying to Peddle Plastic ‘Authenticity’
More and more businesses across the country are adopting an attitude providing a buy-local, un-corporate, anti-chain alternative for customers. But beware of the corporations that are playing the profitable imitation game—don't be duped.
Genuine Corporate Posers
Many people are no longer eating at fast food restaurants, they prefer to dine at upstart, independent outfits. But most of these outlets are owned by corporate fast-food giants. So are McDonald’s, Taco Bell and Pepsi trying to dupe their customers?
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Nearly all plant-based meat alternatives Contain mycotoxins
The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).
Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...
A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.
The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war
The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.