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McDonald’s Dollar Menu Is About To Become “The Dollar Menu & More”

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“McDonald’s Corp. says  it has been testing higher priced versions of its famous value menu.  The Dollar Menu & More that was tested has three price points -$1, $2 and $5 or ‘shareable’ items such as 20-piece McNuggets. Another version that was tested has prices of $1, $1.79 and $4.99.  Earlier this year, Wendy’s revamped  its 99-cent menu to a ‘Right Price Right Size’ menu, with prices ranging up to around $2.  Sure looks like signs of price inflation, not deflation, to me.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/09/hey-krugman-mcdonalds-dollar-menu-is.html

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Snapple Guy’s Overnight Success Took Decades

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“A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. Marsh was the child of Jewish immigrants from Russia. His father was a cobbler.  Mr. Marsh and his brother-in-law Hyman Golden originally ran a Brooklyn-based window-washing and office-maintenance business. In 1972, they teamed up with Arnold Greenberg, who operated a health-food store in Manhattan’s East Village, to create Unadulterated Food Products Inc. The company made juices and sold eggs and produce.  After renaming the company after one of their early products, carbonated apple juice, the founders became known collectively as the ‘Snapple Guys.’ They built up the brand one cooler at a time in New York City’s pizzerias and bodegas.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324659404578499524275374196.html

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Kentucky agriculture head: Grow hemp, we’ll see what Justice Department does

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“Kentucky’s Commissioner of Agriculture James Comer said Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement last week of changes in the Justice Department’s marijuana policy could mean that the state can move ahead with industrial hemp farming. Comer intends to forge ahead with industrial hemp in hopes that federal policy will continue to mellow with regards to marijuana. ‘This is going to happen sooner than many of us thought,’ said Comer. Comer is sanguine enough about the outcome that he is already courting hemp processing companies in hopes that they will do business in the state.  Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (R) issued a statement supporting Comer on Wednesday.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/04/kentucky-agriculture-commissioner-state-to-grow-hemp-and-well-see-what-justice-department-does/

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Tech-savvy Vietnamese coffee farmers brew global takeover

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“From high-tech Israeli irrigation systems to text message updates of global prices for the commodity, coffee farming in Vietnam’s Central Highlands has come a long way since the French first introduced the bean over a century ago.  By texting ‘CA’ to the number 8288 from any Vietnamese mobile phone, farmers almost instantly receive a message with the London prices of Robusta coffee beans and the New York price of Arabica beans.  In 20 years, Vietnam went from contributing less than 0.1 per cent of world production in 1980 to some 13 per cent in 2000 – staggering growth that has been partially blamed for the collapse of global coffee prices in the 1990s.  There is no tax on coffee exports.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/17/tech-savvy-vietnamese-coffee-farmers-brew-global-takeover/

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Seized shark fins dumped in Marshall Islands ceremony

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“The gesture underscored the progress made towards protecting the marine predators since the Marshalls declared a two million square kilometre (770,000 square mile) shark sanctuary in 2011.  Villagomez said some commercial tuna fishermen still illegally cut the fins from sharks, even though they earned very little from the practice. ‘Fishermen only receive a few dollars (per fin),’ he said. ‘But once they are processed in China and sold in Hong Kong restaurants, the price can be as high as US$1,500 per kilo.’ The fins that were dumped off the capital Majuro were confiscated from a Chinese longline fishing vessel earlier this year that was fined $125,000.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/03/seized-shark-fins-dumped-in-marshall-islands-ceremony/

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Peru devotes $35 million to protect coffee farmers from fungus

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“Peru’s anti-drug strategy hinges on persuading farmers to grow coffee instead of coca, the raw material of cocaine, but low prices and plant disease are getting in the way. President Ollanta Humala’s government is allocating $35 million to help coffee growers pay off debts and cope with ‘la roya,’ a stubborn fungus known as coffee rust.  Peru exports coffee to 46 countries, but the bulk — 60 percent — goes to Europe. Germany is Peru’s largest single customer.  Peru ranks alongside Bolivia and Colombia as the world’s main producers of coca, grown exclusively in the Andes of South America, mostly on the eastern slope.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/03/peru-devotes-35-million-to-protect-coffee-farmers-from-fungus/

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Federal court upholds California ban on foie gras sales

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“A US federal appeals court upheld California’s ban on the sale of foie gras Friday, 13 months after the block on the controversial delicacy came into force.  The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected claims that the ban interferes with free trade, made in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles by a group of Canadian and US foie gras producers.  California lawmakers agreed the ban in 2004, but gave the western US state’s only foie gras producer seven-and-a-half years to comply before it came into effect on July 1 last year.  Restaurants serving the gourmet item — made by force-feeding ducks or geese, a practice some animal rights campaigners regard as cruel — can be fined up to $1,000.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/30/federal-court-upholds-california-ban-on-foie-gras-sales/

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Israel to Stop Water Fluoridation in 2014 Due to Health Concerns

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“Since 1974, fluoridated water supplies was mandatory in Israel. It seems the nation, like the U.S., thought (or pretended to think) that fluoride offered enough benefit to risk the populations health. However, Izun Hozer Association for Dissemination of Health Education and Yaacov Gurman petitioned Israel’s highest court on November 12, 2012, demanding that water fluoridation come to a halt due to not only potential health concerns, but also because fluoride provides virtually no benefit. In April 2013, the Minister of Health, Yael German, created a new regulation removing mandatory water fluoridation. The ruling puts an end to all water fluoridation — mandatory or voluntary.”

http://naturalsociety.com/israel-court-rules-to-stop-water-fluoridation-in-2014-due-to-health-concerns/

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Eating whole fruit lowers diabetes risk, but drinking fruit juice raises it

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“People who ate at least two servings each week of certain whole fruits, especially blueberries, grapes and apples, reduced their risk of type 2 diabetes by as much as 23 percent compared to those who ate less than one serving per month.  On the other hand, those who consumed one or more servings of fruit juice each day saw their risk of the disease increase by as much as 21 percent.  ‘Fluids pass through the stomach to the intestine more rapidly than solids even if nutritional content is similar,’ says the paper.  ‘For example, fruit juices lead to more rapid and larger changes in serum [blood] levels of glucose and insulin than whole fruits.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/30/eating-whole-fruit-lowers-risk-of-type-2-diabetes-but-drinking-fruit-juice-boosts-risk-study/

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Gin and tonic: the British Empire’s secret weapon

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“Today, ’empire’ is a dirty word. But the gin and tonic lives on. The drink went from a bitter medicinal tipple in tropical outposts to a mainstay of British clubs and bars by World War I. In postwar America, the gin and tonic became synonymous with WASP summer retreats and country club lounges. Then, in the ’70s and ’80s, gin was almost forgotten as first classic cocktails went out of fashion and then vodka began to explode in popularity. Now the gin and tonic is back, especially at the very high end, where artisanal gins from Brooklyn, San Francisco, and all parts in between can be mixed with special tonics like Fever-Tree (get it?) or Fentimans.”

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/foreigners/2013/08/gin_and_tonic_kept_the_british_empire_healthy_the_drink_s_quinine_powder.single.html

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