Read more food industry stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/25749/food-industry.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 6:28:12 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71728/pollans-rules-to-eat-by-hard-to-swallow.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFood industry critic Michael Pollan is compiling a book of "Rules to Eat By"—like "If you're not hungry enough to eat an apple, you're not hungry"—but his advice that you rely on your ancestors' wisdom for your eating decisions tastes a little off to Patrick Cooke. Cooke's grandfather...http://www.newser.com/story/71728/pollans-rules-to-eat-by-hard-to-swallow.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 15 Oct 2009 4:31:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70504/starbucks-goes-instant.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFollowing a three-city test run, Starbucks is rolling out its new Via coffee across the country today, offering java-fiends an instant brew that costs less than a buck—and is purported to taste just as good as the real thing. The recession-hit coffee chain is selling the powder in Target...http://www.newser.com/story/70504/starbucks-goes-instant.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 29 Sep 2009 6:59:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70421/nestle-buys-milk-from-farms-mugabe-seized.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNestle is buying up to 265,000 gallons of milk a year from a Zimbabwean farm seized from white landowners and now owned by the wife of Robert Mugabe. Grace Mugabe has taken over at least six of the country's most valuable farms, reports the Telegraph. As a Swiss company,...http://www.newser.com/story/70421/nestle-buys-milk-from-farms-mugabe-seized.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 28 Sep 2009 4:43:23 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69053/to-cut-health-costs-fix-the-food-industry.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThere’s an “elephant in the room” when it comes to health care reform: American health care costs a bundle in large part because we’re so fat, writes Michael Pollan for the New York Times . President Obama has touched on the issue, but the country hasn’t, and that’s because the food...http://www.newser.com/story/69053/to-cut-health-costs-fix-the-food-industry.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 10 Sep 2009 13:32:03 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68801/cadbury-shoots-down-167b-kraft-takeover-bid.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCadbury today rejected a $16.73 billion takeover bid from food giant Kraft, the Wall Street Journal reports. The candy maker has recently undergone restructuring and divestment that it says make it more valuable—and more attractive to suitors like Kraft. The Cadbury board says the offer “fundamentally undervalues” the...http://www.newser.com/story/68801/cadbury-shoots-down-167b-kraft-takeover-bid.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 07 Sep 2009 11:44:21 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67531/modern-farming-has-lost-its-soul.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWe know today’s food industry cranks out “unhealthy food, mishandles waste, and overuses antibiotics,” writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times , but the heart of the matter is that today’s industrial farms have “no soul.” In a visit back to his old stomping grounds, Kristof reflects that the “kind...http://www.newser.com/story/67531/modern-farming-has-lost-its-soul.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 23 Aug 2009 10:56:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66777/big-food-battles-big-sugar-to-cut-import-prices.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAmerica could "virtually run out of sugar" if more cheap foreign imports aren't allowed in, some of the nation's biggest food companies warned Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack in a recent letter. The firms—which pay around twice the world market price for sugar because of tariffs to protect sugar-beet farmers...http://www.newser.com/story/66777/big-food-battles-big-sugar-to-cut-import-prices.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 13 Aug 2009 1:21:39 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65983/after-e-coli-outbreaks-food-industry-looks-to-tracing-tech.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIn the wake of health scares like the 2006 E. coli outbreak traced to tainted spinach, the food industry is scrambling to reassure the public—and hoping to head off a congressional response, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Voluntary efforts are under way to make tracing easier. For example, one...http://www.newser.com/story/65983/after-e-coli-outbreaks-food-industry-looks-to-tracing-tech.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 03 Aug 2009 13:30:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65715/houses-passes-sweeping-food-safety-bill.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe FDA would gain broad new powers to oversee food safety under a far-reaching bill passed by the House yesterday, the Washington Post reports. The measure—representing the first major changes to food safety laws since the 1930s—would give the agency vastly increased oversight of the nation's food chain...http://www.newser.com/story/65715/houses-passes-sweeping-food-safety-bill.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 31 Jul 2009 1:20:20 CDT