From the category archives:
New York City, who has been debating instituting a soda tax, has instead settled on running a shock ad campaign. Observe:
In theory, this seems like a good idea - though in general kids are rebellious and ad campaigns aimed at getting them to not do something aren’t always successful. For example, this study suggests that [...]
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This morning, the Wall Street Journal published an article entitled: “Organic Foods Get on Private-Label Wagon: As More Shoppers Pinch Pennies, Grocery Chains See ‘Natural’ Expansion of Store Brands”. The gist of the piece is that brand name organic food producers have begun to offer cheaper, store banded versions of their products. Think: Safeway Organic [...]
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This is a follow up to my review of Food Inc, where I mentioned that one of the issues raised by the movie was the negative impact on NAFTA on mexican farmers. Wikipedia has a rather comprehensive article on the
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The two natural food companies from Boulder, Olomomo Nut Company (who just finished a rebrand last week from its previous name: Spice Boulder) and The Organic Dish, took home first and second place respectively in the Bard Center for Entrepreneurship Eighth Annual Business Plan Competition.
I attended the event, and after seeing the presentations of the [...]
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Yesterday, the New York Times ran a short article entitled Childhood: Food Allergies may be linked to Obesity. It included the stat:
For example, overweight and obese children were over 50 percent more likely than those of normal weight to be allergic to milk. Over all, the obese and overweight children were about 25 percent more [...]
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