Mysterious Chinese seed packets show up across US
Dozens of US states have reported mysterious seeds showing up in packages from China, reports Business Insider. The Government is ...
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Food giants join anti-hate Facebook boycott
It’s rumoured that PepsiCo will join some of the largest food and beverage multinationals in a Facebook advertising boycott. Coca-Cola, ...
Antibiotics in veg crops might impact human health
Antibiotic use in vegetable crops globally is not being monitored enough, despite suggestions it could impact the human immune system, ...
Ex-Bumble Bee CEO responds to jail sentence
The former CEO of Bumble Bee Foods, jailed last week in America for more than three years over canned tuna ...
Okay, we need to talk about Big Food
This Financial Times Opinion piece says, Big Food is fast on its way to surpassing Big Tech as the world's most ...
Small is beautiful say meat processing advocates
As food factories in England and Wales close, with around 250 confirmed cases of coronavirus among workers, pressure for regulatory ...
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US-EU trade talks stall over “unsafe” American food
EURACTIV reports that US trade talks with the European Union and Britain have stalled in part due to suspicions of ...
Danone’s Emmanuel Faber gives himself a 30% pay cut
This month's Danone annual general meeting will ratify substantial self-imposed pay cuts for the food giant's CEO and Chairman Emmanuel ...
Pilgrim’s Pride CEO to focus on indictment
Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation’s CEO will focus on a price fixing indictment against him, while the company’s CFO steps in as ...
How Europe avoided US meatpacking catastrophe
The Food & Environmental Reporting Network looks at why Europe did not suffer the same meatpacking crisis from Covid-19 as ...
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