Posts tagged: #big food companies

In The News: Obama Expected to Sign GMO Bill; Major Food Companies Paying Farmers to Go Organic; Thousands of Venezuelans Have to Cross Borders for Food

Posted on July 18, 2016

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Obama Expected to Sign GMO Bill When Obama was campaigning for the presidency in 2007, he spoke a lot about GMOs and his stand on them. A direct quote from one of his speeches: “We’ll let folks know whether their … Read More

Posted in In The News Tagged with: #big food companies, #blackouts, #certified organic, #Columbia, #congress, #crop land, #farm land, #federal standard, #food industry, #food insecurity, #food scarcity, #food security, #GMO, #herbicides, #international humanitarian aid, #Kashi, #major food companies, #manual labor, #organic certification, #organic farmers, #organic farming, #Pesticides, #POTUS, #President Obama, #riots, #transitional period, #Venezuela, #Venezuelan food crisis

In the News: The Anti-Packaging Movement; A Call for a Ban on Drug Ads on TV; Big Food Found Guilty in Multi Million Dollar Cover Up in GMO Labeling Fight

Posted on March 14, 2016

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The Anti-Packaging Movement Everyone has heard of recycling, but “pre-cycling” (eliminating waste before it’s created) is a more obscure concept. Stores of every kind use over zealous amounts of packaging for their products, sometimes even packing products in a plastic … Read More

Posted in In The News Tagged with: #advertising, #American Medical Association, #anti-packaging, #attorney general, #big food companies, #consumers, #drug ads, #gma, #GMO labeling, #grocery store, #net-zero, #packaging, #penalty, #pharmaceuticals, #precycling, #recycling, #Washington, #zero waste

In the News: High Fructose Corn Syrup is Getting a New Name; Hamburg Bans Single Serve Pods; Brooklyn Kids Create Jobs By Composting

Posted on February 22, 2016

High Fructose Corn Syrup is Getting a New Name Consumers have started to say no to high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in their food, so big food companies are getting creative. Instead of listing HFCS as an ingredient, they are … Read More

Posted in In The News Tagged with: #act locally, #big food companies, #BK Rot, #Brooklyn, #community, #composting, #food labeling, #fructose syrup, #germany, #Hamburg, #hfcs, #high fructose corn syrup, #k-cups, #reading labels, #recycling, #reduce, #reduce reuse recycle, #single serve coffee, #think globally