The food industry, along with the apparel industry, has long led the way in labor exploitation. Throughout the 20th century, agricultural interests went to extreme lengths to keep labor costs.
Coca-Cola is dealing with lagging soda sales by investing in moo juice: With soda sales sagging, Coca-Cola is moving into the dairy business. It plans to offer milk with some.
Palm oil is a very efficient way of producing cooking oil and is thus in high demand around the world. One huge problem is that it is turning the incredibly.
There are a lot of labor stories in my blogging queue right now. Let's just deal with them all at once. 1. Do we need a new legal framework for.
When was the last time you thought about Totino's frozen pizza? When you were 16 and hated good food? Me too. That's some nasty "pizza." And other frozen pizza-like products..
A friend altered me to this highlight of American culinary history. The definition of everybody winning is hot cocktail sauce.
Andrew Lawler provides an excellent history of chicken's rise through the 20th century from minor part of the American diet to American companies feeding the world with it. The modern.
We can pass regulations forcing corporations to divulge sourcing. But unless those regulations come with more stick than carrot, the corporations will fib. See the ever-exploitative shrimp industry: In a.
