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Cheaper Produce at the Farmers Market? It’s True
source:By Kara Reinhardt, Cheapism.com Farmers markets tend to be thought of as the province of the well-to-do, peddling things like $12 heads of organic lettuce and edible chrysanthemum leaves. But...
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U.S. Mill Re-Opens To Meet China’s Rising Demand For Diapers
by JACOB GOLDSTEIN Southern U.S. Loblolly Pine Picture:Beth J. Harpaz/AP A Virginia paper mill that shut down a few years back is reopening to meet rising demand from China and...
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Betrayal of the American Dream’ analyzes how the middle class came under siege
By Hector Tobar Los Angeles Times You may be old enough to remember the era in the United States lamented for its passing by authors Donald L. Bartlett and James B. Steele on nearly every page of their...
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Cantaloupes linked to deadly multistate Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak
– Two deaths and multiple cases of illness across 20 states have been linked to cantaloupes contaminated with salmonella, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. State and federal health...
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China’s “wild east” drug store
Philippe Andre, a detective in the murky world of Chinese pharmaceuticals, has some alarming tales to tell. In May last year, he visited a factory an hour outside Shanghai that supposedly produced a...
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U.S. dairy, poultry producers press for Canada market openings
A dairy farm on the banks of the Columbia River Canada uses supply controls to help poultry, dairy farmers * US producers see 2nd chance in Trans-Pacific Partnership By Doug Palmer WASHINGTON, Sept 24...
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Chinese workers revolt over 2-minute toilet breaks
BEIJING (AP) About 1,000 workers at Shanghai Shinmei Electric Company held the 10 Japanese nationals and eight Chinese managers inside the factory in Shanghai starting Friday morning until 11.50 p.m....
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Group Finds More Fake Ingredients in Popular Foods
By JIM AVILA and SERENA MARSHALL | Good Morning America – ABC News Video It’s what we expect as shoppers—what’s in the food will be displayed on the label. But a new scientific examination by the...
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Made in USA makes comeback as a marketing tool
Oliver St. John, USA TODAY10:11p.m. EST January 21, 2013 It’s becoming downright American to make stuff in America. Small manufacturers, craftsmen and retailers are marketing the Made-in-USA tag to...
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“Buying American” Generally Matters More to Women Than Men
A majority of American adults believe that it is important to “buy American” across a variety of product types, according to results from a Harris Interactive survey, even if the definition of what...
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Pushing America’s Reset Button
By Maggie Van Ostrand Original post on Huffington Post I want the world to go back to Default and be as it once was, when Congress and the Supreme Court were admired and respected, no politician...
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The dangers of farm-raised tilapia from China
BY DR. MICHAEL L. SMITH COMMENTARY Appeared originally on Studio V Health WordPress As a proponent of healthy eating and educating the public on sound evidence based research, I find it very alarming...
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From China, The Future of Fish
Meet the Chinese tilapia, a bland food product that grows fast and sells cheap. Environmentalists hate it, but Americans keep ordering more. By Bruce Einhorn (Fixes reference to U.S. food-service...
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The Honey Launderers: Uncovering the Largest Food Fraud in U.S. History
By Susan Berfield | BusinessWeek – Mon, Sep 23, 2013 1:14 PM EDT Magnus von Buddenbrock and Stefanie Giesselbach arrived in Chicago in 2006 full of hope. He was 30, she was 28, and they had both won...
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Walmart’s ‘Made in America’ push: From offshoring to onshoring
Reuters | Updated On: September 25, 2013 14:12 (IST) Wal-Mart Stores Inc, whose focus on low-cost sourcing helped to fuel the offshoring of U.S. manufacturing, has been promoting a patriotic new image...
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John Ratzenberger’s American Made TV Show Kicks off Campaign in FundAnything
Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 21, 2013 John Ratzenberger (best known for playing the mailman Cliff Clavin on Cheers) is launching a crowd source campaign today with FundAnything for his brand new...
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Scientists trace deadly piglet virus hitting US farms to China
Published October 23, 2013 Reuters A virus deadly to baby pigs that has roiled the U.S. pork industry likely originated in the Anhui Province of China and may have evolved from a virus seen in bats,...
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“Made in the USA” Matters to Shoppers – Including Millennials
TEANECK, N.J., Dec. 4, 2013 TEANECK, N.J., Dec. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ – Results from the latest shopper research survey conducted by Perception Research Services (PRS) indicate that shoppers are...
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Crumbling American Dreams
By ROBERT D. PUTNAM Andrew Borowiec for The New York Times The demolition of the old Port Clinton Middle and Jefferson Elementary Schools in Port Clinton, Ohio. My hometown — Port Clinton, Ohio,...
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Group Finds More Fake Ingredients in Popular Foods
By JIM AVILA and SERENA MARSHALL | Good Morning America – ABC News Video It’s what we expect as shoppers—what’s in the food will be displayed on the label. But a new scientific examination by the...
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