Shopping Carts at Winn Dixie going Antibacterial!?
Not completely food related, but check out these young kids shoveling up horse manure compost to raise money for field trips.
Should the Department of Agriculture or the Department of Education be in charge of the school lunch program? The Ag. Commissioner thinks he should be in charge.
Consumers beware! The headline on this one says it all - Retailers Turn to Old Tricks to Disguise Rising Commodity Prices.
This one is about Orange Juice prices rising even though the crop size was larger than expected. What gives? Gas prices. Since the packaging, processing, and transportation require petroleum, which we all know is going up, so does the cost of the juice.
The Home Shopping Network is going to get cheesier thanks to a deal with Kraft. Expect to see more Kraft products in recipes while they sell pots and pans. Kraft, by the way, owns way more than cheese. See the Good Green link below.
Without bees and other pollinators we would all be hungry right now. Unfortunately, all kinds of things are causing their populations to decline, according to the UN. Quick fact from the article - of the 100 plants that provide 90% of the world's food - 70 are pollinated by bees!
The Grist, in typical Grist fashion, reviews the Economist magazine's recent Special Report on Feeding the World.
The NY Times opines on the industrial vs. organic agriculture debate. The comments on the NY Times website are so much more intellectual than the Democrat's!
The skinny on reduced-fat peanut butter, again in typical Grist fashion.
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