Source: The Observer
A powerful lobbying organisation representing agribusiness interests helped draft a key government report that has been attacked by environmentalists for heavily favouring the arguments of the genetically modified food industry.
The revelation comes after the resignation of two government advisers who have criticised the close relationship between the Food Standards Agency (FSA), the body [...]
Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry that increasingly supplies their goods.
It’s a long way from handing out macaroni and canned soup from a church basement.
Source/Full Story: Yahoo! News
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The home gardener will be putting the entire food industry at risk by their alleged ignorance of things like late blight, and will therefore be need to be controlled and regulated by some government [...]
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Source: Reuters
What a difference a year — and a recession — makes for the food industry.
This time last year, food manufacturers were struggling to raise prices fast enough to keep pace with the soaring cost of ingredients such as wheat and corn.
Now, as companies like Campbell Soup Co, Sara Lee Corp and Unilever Plc [...]
