Archive for August, 2008
Shoppers starting to change their tastes - Financial Times
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
It looks like agriculture from Alice in Wonderland. As fast as Britain exports poultry, lamb and beef, it is importing the same meat from farmers overseas. In 2006 – the latest year for which detailed statistics are available – the UK exported …
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Roseland residents aim to end drought of grocery stores - Chicago Tribune
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Roseland residents aim to end drought of grocery storesChicago Tribune, United States - 3 hours agoAt Sunday’s rally was Goodness Greeness, an organic food distribution company based in the Englewood neighborhood. “We’re also in a food desert,” said …
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Price war looms on organic produce - Independent
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Price war looms on organic produceIndependent, UK - 39 minutes agoBy James Thompson The UK’s biggest grocers will try to reinvigorate sales of organic food next week, following evidence that the organic market has suffered …Super loaf earns bakery another award Evening Post all 2 news articles
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Price war looms on organic produce - The Independent
Sunday, August 31st, 2008The UK’s biggest grocers will try to reinvigorate sales of organic food next week, following evidence that the organic market has suffered its sharpest fall for a decade. After what had been a meteoric rise to annual sales of £1.3bn, according to …
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Dear Mother December/January 2007: Letters from our Readers - Mother Earth News
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Dear Mother December/January 2007: Letters from our ReadersMother Earth News, KS - 2 hours agoNot only have food co-ops been pioneers in emphasizing local and organic food, but they also are dramatically different from supermarkets and natural-foods …
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Root manoeuvre - Times Online
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Whole Foods? Don’t talk to me about Whole Foods,” fumes Guy Watson. “They’re a bloody disgrace. I think that the prices are ridiculous.” Ever since Watson’s Damascene conversion in the mid-1980s, when he chucked the keys to his swanky …
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Organic food to come under governmental supervision - Jerusalem Post
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Organic food to come under governmental supervisionJerusalem Post, Israel - 6 hours agoTwo things: the symbol of the Agriculture Ministry and one of the three symbols of the organizations the ministry has deputized to monitor organic food. …
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Sresta helps farmers switch to organic farming - Economic Times
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Sresta helps farmers switch to organic farmingEconomic Times, India - Aug 31, 2008The idea was to provide organic food products to consumers and to introduce a healthy practice among the farmers by encouraging them to take up organic …
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A Taste of the Future? - New York Times Blogs
Sunday, August 31st, 2008A Taste of the Future?New York Times Blogs, NY - 1 hour ago… organic food to most Americans (short answer: food is artificially expensive), and 2) what could they do to affect change (short answer: consume less, …
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Doing what comes naturally - phillyBurbs.com
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Doing what comes naturallyphillyBurbs.com, PA - 5 hours agoIn the past few years, mass-market grocery stores’ share of the organic food market has grown, while the share of such products sold at natural food markets …
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