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State dairymen seek bigger share of whey windfall
SACRAMENTO — California dairy farmers and cheese processors are fighting again over milk prices. It's not Grade A, homogenized, pasteurized milk that's at issue in the state Capitol. Rather, agriculture lobbyists are focused on the price of whey,...
Tags: Al Capone, Sales, Politics, Business, Prices
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Supreme Court hands Monsanto a GMO victory
The Supreme Court sided with Monsanto Co. on Monday, ruling against a farmer who used beans grown from the company's patented, genetically modified soybean seeds to plant subsequent crops. It was apparently the first time the court had upheld patent...
Tags: Genetic Engineering, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Monsanto Company, Agriculture, Consumers
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Restaurant meals overloaded with salt, fat, calories, study says
Want to satisfy your full day’s requirement of salt, fat and calories? Sit down in a restaurant and order a meal. After an exhaustive analysis of 3,507 possible ways to order 685 meals at 19 restaurants chains in Canada, researchers found that the...
Tags: Burger King, Lifestyle and Leisure, Foods and Beverages, Diseases and Illnesses, Diabetes
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Lawmakers test Brown's no-tax resolve with calls to hike levies
SACRAMENTO — Releasing his latest budget plan this week, Gov. Jerry Brown repeated his assurance that the tax hikes voters agreed to last fall were enough, that he won't ask them to dig deeper into their pockets any time soon. "We just got a...
Tags: Bob Huff, Roger Dickinson, Lifestyle and Leisure, Petroleum Industry, Consumer Goods Industries
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At the Counter chain, burgers get the personal touch
Jeffrey Weinstein once swept through 19 Denver restaurants in six hours, a feat that most people would characterize as gluttony. Weinstein calls it research. Eating out is more than a hobby for the founder and co-chief executive of the Counter, a...
Tags: Burger King, Lifestyle and Leisure, Prices, Business, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Rat for dinner: Hundreds arrested in China, where eating is 'game of chance'
Rats disguised as mutton? Out of China comes a story of crimes against meat and man. And be warned: It will make you lose your appetite. Chinese authorities say uninspected meats, including fox, mink and rat, were disguised as beef and mutton with the...
Tags: China, Flu, Lamb
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Wrigley holds off on caffeinated gum as FDA reviews caffeine
Less than a week after the Food and Drug Administration announced that it would investigate the safety of added caffeine in U.S. food and beverage products, Wrigley North America has decided to put its bid to market a caffeinated gum on hold out of...
Tags: Dietary Supplements, Food and Drug Administration, Energy Drinks, Consumer Goods Industries, American Academy of Pediatrics
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Pesticides, parasites and poor forage hurting bee pollinators
Although honeybee loss slowed last year, it remains at dangerously high levels, according to a new federal report that concluded there was no single remedy for the colony collapse that has hit America’s hard-working crop pollinators. The report,...
Tags: Environmental Politics, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Consumer Goods Industries, Environmental Issues, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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PepsiCo-Lil Wayne split marks shaky alliance of rappers, business
Corporations are quick to recruit rappers to sell their soft drinks, shoes and smartphones — but the moment there's a whiff of controversy, they are just as quick to cut them loose. The latest example is PepsiCo and Lil Wayne. Last week, the...
Tags: Poetry, Meek Mill, Promethazine (drug), Social Media, Music
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Oil and soda taxes advance in California Legislature
SACRAMENTO -- Two controversial tax measures advanced Wednesday in the California Legislature — a penny-per-ounce levy on soda and a charge on oil pumped from the ground in the state. The Senate Health Committee members approved a bill by state...
Tags: Noreen Evans, Politics, Consumer Goods Industries, Family, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Bird flu more difficult to detect this time around
China has suffered outbreaks of bird flu before, but the virus that has now infected more than 100 people across eastern China and Taiwan is different in several important ways, according to scientists and researchers. The new virus is H7N9, a different...
Tags: Health, China, Diseases and Illnesses, Science and Technology, Bird Flu
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Honey may hold the sticky solution to bee colony collapse
This post has been corrected, as noted belowHoneybees that live off the same sweetener found in soft drinks could be more vulnerable to the microbial enemies and pesticides believed to be linked to catastrophic collapse of honeybee colonies worldwide, a new study suggests. Researchers...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Consumer Goods Industries, Science and Technology, Disasters and Accidents
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