Archive for July, 2008
Real food, real people - Thesiuslaw News
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Jen Nelson, a founding member of the Real Food Co-op, manages the store on a busy weekday. “I like to eat organic food, and I wanted to make it more available to people,” said Nelson of her work for the co-op. Below, Stuart Henderson arrives with …
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In SF City Hall front yard, a bounty of produce - Miami Herald
Thursday, July 31st, 2008SAN FRANCISCO For generations, the lawn at Civic Center Plaza was a lush, quarter-acre welcome mat outside City Hall, and a frequent staging ground for demonstrations. But the grass has been torn out and replaced by tomato plants, spinach, beans and …
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In SF City Hall front yard, a bounty of produce - The Associated Press
Thursday, July 31st, 2008The Associated Press
In SF City Hall front yard, a bounty of produceThe Associated Press - 1 hour ago“If people want to eat out of the garden, and they need to eat a piece of lettuce, that’s fine with me,” he said. “It’s good, organic food. …
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Books: Consumerism and the ‘Inverted Quarantine’ - Berkeley Daily Planet
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Books: Consumerism and the ‘Inverted Quarantine’Berkeley Daily Planet, CA - 3 hours agoBut is organic food really a bad idea? Szasz argues it is. It is not that the author is Pollyannaish about the variety of awful things people ingest in …
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Organics demand likely to increase - Stuff.co.nz
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Organics demand likely to increaseStuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 24 minutes agoBy TIM CRONSHAW - The Press | Friday, 01 August 2008 Shoppers are expected to start putting more organic food in their trolleys because rising farm costs …
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Organics in the family - Stuff.co.nz
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Stuff.co.nz
Organics in the familyStuff.co.nz, New Zealand - 24 minutes ago… harvesting a crop with four times the yield and the same amount of work, but at the end of the day we are getting the premium for growing organic food.”
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New promotional campaign for organic food and farming - Portugal News
Thursday, July 31st, 2008New promotional campaign for organic food and farmingPortugal News, Portugal - 59 minutes agoThe European Commission this week launched the European Union’s new Organic Farming Campaign at the Foire de Libramont agricultural fair in Belgium. …
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Organic produce with the FairPrice brand - Straits Times
Thursday, July 31st, 2008IT IS now cheaper to make a meal with organic food. NTUC FairPrice launched a new range of house-brand organic products yesterday, aimed at a the growing number of Singaporeans who want to avoid artificial chemicals in their food.
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Federal Appeals Court Revives FTC Objections to Whole Food/Wild … - OpEdNews
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Federal Appeals Court Revives FTC Objections to Whole Food/Wild …OpEdNews, PA - 4 hours agoby Stephen Fox Page 1 of 1 page(s) Introductory Note: With 40 years of consistent shopping for organic food items, I have for quite some time objected to …
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Federal Appeals Court Revives FTC Objections to Whole Food/Wild Oats … - OpEdNews.com
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Introductory Note: With 40 years of consistent shopping for organic food items, I have for quite some time objected to this merger as monopolistic, speaking from personal experience here in Santa Fe. I strongly commend the FTC for hanging in there …
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