Advertising
Featuring native peoples from exotic locales who have never eaten a hamburger, new television spot (click 'See also') from Burger King feature 'Whopper Virgins' sampling - and choosing - between company's product, those of McDonald's. Critics call documentary-style ads 'ugly Americanism,' and misuse of money in food-starved world.
By Tom Hundley
Chicago Tribune 2008-12-16 (entry)
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Marketing campaign includes fast-food chain's mascot, the 'King.'
Fast-food chain introduces $4 meat-scented men's body spray, 'Flame,' to mixed reactions in Boston. One tester detects note of cinnamon. Another declares it 'too heavy,' and another wonders if it could cause a rash.
By Christine McConville
Boston Herald 2008-12-16 (entry)
Citing urgent need to retain viable fishing industry, European Commission proposes drastic cuts in fishing limits and ban on several others to let populations recover from overfishing. But EU governments regularly ignore pleas from EU and scientists to limit fishing. And: Anchovy populations now unstable, UK group says (click 'See also').
By Jessica Aldred (and agencies)
The Guardian (UK) 2008-11-10 (entry)
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Wood-devouring beetle chews into valuable maples, threatening New England's syrup industry, leaf peeping, timber. Calling it a national emergency, government commits to spending tens of millions of dollars to fight 62 square-mile invasion; 1,800 trees must be destroyed. Eradication efforts in New York, New Jersey, Illinois have cost $268 million over past 11 years.
By Rodrique Ngowi
The Washington Post 2008-11-05 (entry)
In survey of 60 seafoods at New York sushi restaurants and seafood markets, a quarter of labels didn't match product, young researchers learn from newly available DNA analysis. Genetic fingerprinting technique, used by one sleuth's dad in his work with birds, showed that one fish labeled as white tuna was really tilapia, and in another case, red snapper was cod.
By John Schwartz
The New York Times 2008-08-21 (entry)
Some Kellogg's Eggo products advertised for sale a pirate bandana 'like the one worn by Jack Sparrow' in a 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movie.
Pitches for sodas, restaurant items, boxed cereals led $1.6 billion in spending to sell processed food items to children in 2006, FTC report says. Beyond that 63 percent, $860 million aimed for children 12 and younger; $1 billion was directed at adolescents. And: In 1999, candy and snack ad spending was $1 billion; USDA spent $333 million on nutrition education, evaluation, and demonstrations (click 'See also').
By Bob Dart
Cox News Service/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2008-07-29 (entry)
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Breakfast, lunch and fancy restaurant dinners still allowed under pharmaceutical industry's new voluntary guidelines for drug marketing campaigns. In 2002, industry banned "dine and dash" events where they provided free take-out dinners and other gifts to doctors who listened to sales pitches.
By Gardiner Harris
The New York Times 2008-07-10 (entry)
Virulent banana fungus threatens single variety shipped around the world, but big banana companies have been slow to seek cure or diversify crop by preserving little-known varieties that grow in Africa and Asia. That means bananas could become, to our pocketbooks, the exotic luxuries that they are.
By Dan Koeppel
The New York Times 2008-06-18 (entry)
Senators lobby to retain enforcement of Country Of Origin Labeling for ginseng in compromise farm/food bill. Wisconsin ginseng growers have complained that imported ginseng is sometimes mislabeled.
Yara Korkor
Wisconsin Public Radio; The Associated Press; WBAY 2008-03-03 (entry)
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Reveling in post-modern gluttony, CKE Restaurants, parent company of Hardee's and Carl's Jr., goes for the bloat and gloats about it. The attitude disarms the food police and allows diners a feel-good aspect about getting fat and the chance to strike a blow against political correctness. The strategy is making money, and copycatting is rampant.
By Joe Keohane
Portfolio 2008-02-01 (entry)
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Pesticide and GMO seed giant Monsanto donates $5 million to help refurbish old Des Moines library as headquarters for World Food Prize Foundation, following promise of $1 million last week from DuPont. Hugh Grant, Monsanto head, said he hopes annual WFP symposium will evolve into global agricultural equivalent of Switzerland's Davos World Economic Forum.
By Jerry Perkins
The Des Moines Register 2008-02-15 (entry)
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California amphitheater loses Coors sponsorship but it's a gain for NASCAR. The beer company is also the official beer sponsor of the NFL, and sponsors Coors Field in Denver, home of the Colorado Rockies baseball team. In 2005, the brewery merged with Canada's Molson; in 2007, it joined Miller.
By Tanya Mannes
The San Diego Union-Tribune 2008-02-02 (entry)
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Consumers can sue to force food stores to label farmed salmon that is artificially colored to resemble its wild kin, California Supreme court says. Lawsuits, previously dismissed, said the color led some shoppers to pay higher prices for the fish and others to buy it. Defendants include Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Safeway, Albertsons, Costco, Kroger, Bristol Farms and Ocean Beauty Seafoods.
By Bob Egelko
San Francisco Chronicle 2008-02-11 (entry)
Tyson, told to remove or clarify package labeling on chickens that don't qualify as "raised without antibiotics" after USDA mistakenly OK'd label, has changed wording to "Chicken Raised Without Antibiotics that impact antibiotic resistance in humans." Competitors had complained of misleading advertising claims that break federal and state law.
By Lauren Etter
The Wall Street Journal 2008-01-26 (entry)
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Cloning industry has learned from ongoing controversy surrounding Monsanto and GMO seeds. But cloning may be more readily accepted because customers, not solely producers, could benefit if advocates are correct in forecasting superior products. But if they're superior, why not label them?
The Economist 2008-01-17 (entry)
As USDA takes comments on its voluntary "naturally raised" label proposal, debate continues on true meaning of words. The agency says its new label would mark packaged meats as free of growth hormones and antibiotics and show it wasn't fed animal by-products, but critics say label won't reflect whether animals were confined during life.
By Mike Hughlett
Chicago Tribune 2008-01-06 (entry)
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Do farmed fish deserve organic label, and a piece of that $15.5 billion market? Hearings open, with industry asking for rules of competition against imports so labeled but with possibly suspect standards. Opponents say no, that the fish food contains hazardous chemicals and that common practices pollute the waters and aren't sustainable.
By Ashley Gosik
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Cox News Service) 2007-11-27 (entry)
USDA reverses its approval of "raised without antibiotics" on Tyson chicken labels after belatedly noticing that ionophores were included in the feed. Tyson, world's largest meat processor, maintains that the feed additive is not an antibiotic, but USDA disagrees.
By Marcus Kabel
The Associated Press; ABC 2007-11-20 (entry)
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One day, a star of the table, the next day, nothing. The sweet potato, with its noble nutritional profile (fiber and vitamins A,C and E), trails celery in its per capita consumption of about 4 pounds and levels of 1920 - 29.5 pounds - seem miraculous. But fans seek the boost that bubbling oil and salt gives the russet potato.
By Robert Tomsho
The Wall Street Journal (may require subscription) 2007-11-21 (entry)
As large farms and companies acquire organic label, small farmers believe they must choose between the principles of healthy eating and environmental stewardship or federally sanctioned organic certification. One farmer, faced with choice, changed "organic" to "ornery."
By Matt King
Times Herald-Record (NY) 2007-11-11 (entry)
As campaign against throwaway water bottles continues, filtration system companies jump in, selling purity from the faucet, while reusable bottle manufacturers point out their environmentally friendly approach.
By Claudia H. Deutsch
The New York Times 2007-11-10 (entry)
With their share of the fast-growing $13 billion market for "natural" foods and drinks at stake, producers swipe at each other and public interest group wants to know: Is saltwater plumping up a chicken "natural?" How about the corn-based flavoring and preservative, sodium lactate, in sliced roast beef? What of high-fructose corn syrup?
By Andrew Bridges
The Associated Press 2007-11-07 (entry)
Saving the world, one cupcake at a time, Brooklyn bakery has cut its energy use by installing glazed windows, reduced water use and reduced its trash by switching to biodegradable bags and utensils; response from tradition-bound Italian neighborhood has been overwhelmingly positive.
By J. Alex Tarquinio
The New York Times 2007-11-01 (entry)
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As concerns grow over the origins and safety of what we eat, manufacturers and grocers respond with a positive yet puzzling new vocabulary, and consumers are left wondering about the differences between "organic" and "natural."
By Andrea Weigl
The News & Observer (NC) 2007-10-03 (entry)
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After farm advocacy group files two complaints against Aurora Dairy and USDA threatens to revoke its organic certification, company agrees to remove organic label from some milk and to add pasture for cows.
By Andrew Martin
The New York Times (may require subscription) 2007-08-30 (entry)
Target Corporation, in war against Wal-Mart and its industrial organics, sponsors a farmers' market in St. Paul/Minneapolis, but some customers balk at the Archer Farms booth, which is no farm, but the discount store's house brand.
City Pages (MN) 2007-08-23 (entry)
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In effort to increase demand for beef from "future consumers," Kansas beef farmers continue funding 17-year-old program for public schools that teaches cooking techniques, beef cuts, food safety, nutrition; teachers can also request additional materials to supplement beef lessons.
Cattlenetwork.com 2007-08-13 (entry)
Humane Society targets Wendy's for its egg-buying choices, comparing it unfavorably to Burger King, which is phasing in cage-free policy; company responds that its interests are focused on welfare of chickens and pigs, the meat of which they buy in larger quantities.
By Monique Curet and Tracy Turner
The Columbus Dispatch (entry)
With growing rates of obesity in mind, FTC issues 44 subpoenas to food and beverage companies to learn how they advertise their wares to children; similar studies undertaken in the past with alcohol and tobacco companies.
By Mary Jane Credeur and Chris Burritt
bloomberg.com 2007-08-11 (entry)
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