March 4 was the launch date for Starbucks‘ new Via instant coffee, so, curious, I strolled over to my neighborhood Starbucks in the Seattle suburb where I live — only to have the barista tell me that only select Seattle-area stores had Via in stock. The rest of the region won’t get it for another couple weeks, he said. But from what I can gather online, initial reaction to the...
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Venezuela expropriates Cargill rice mill — President Hugo Chavez ordered the nationalization of a rice mill owned by a Cargill subsidiary, saying the plant was evading price controls on basic foods by producing a higher-grade rice not covered by the laws. A Cargill spokesman said the company was “respectful of the Venezuelan government decision” but hoped to negotiate....
Cadbury Dairy Milk in the UK will be the first major brand to make all of its chocolate fair trade certified. By the end of the summer, it will be buying all of the cocoa for its candy bars and cocoa powder from fair trade growers in Ghana, tripling the country’s cocoa sales. Fair trade supporters are hoping the move will goad rivals like Nestle and Mars into considering similar actions....
China food safety law bans additives — A new law five years in the making bans food additives unless they have been proven safe. The law also establishes unified national food safety standards, a food monitoring system and food recall processes. Milk contaminated with melamine sickened hundreds last fall and captured international headlines, but melamine isn’t the only problem the...
Environmentalists have been talking about carbon footprints for years, but now there’s a new concern: water. Climate change is leading to water scarcity in some areas, and the food industry is particularly affected. PepsiCo, General Mills and Starbucks all had representatives at last week’s Water Footprint Summit in Miami. And it wasn’t out of the goodness of their hearts. The...
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