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Nestle plays down RFK Jr’s anti-packaged food rhetoric
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Nestle plays down RFK Jr’s anti-packaged food rhetoric

By Reuters, Richa Naidu November 19, 2024
Nestle on Tuesday sought to play down any differences with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been critical of packaged foods, saying it shared the next U.S. health agency chief's desire to improve agricultural practices and nutrition.

CF Industries is one of the world’s biggest nitrogen fertilizer producers and competes against Russian imports.  Photo: Thinkstock
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U.S. fertilizer imports helping fund Russian war effort, CF Industries says

By Richa Naidu, Rod Nickel May 3, 2024
Reuters – U.S. agriculture companies have been brisk importers of Russian fertilizer since the 2022 Ukraine invasion, a practice that is unwittingly helping fund Russia’s war against Ukraine, U.S. producer […] Read more


Higher prices of basic foodstuffs such as corn, soy and meat are affecting food supplies for both animals and people as the U.S. economy picks up steam.  Photo: Thinkstock

Pet food shortages leave owners on the hunt for kibble

By Richa Naidu, Tom Polansek July 29, 2021
Chicago | Reuters – Black short-haired kitty Astra, one of millions of pets acquired during the COVID-19 pandemic last year, had to go without salmon-flavored Whiskas treats that were sold […] Read more

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Starbucks to add more plant-based food in latest green push

By Hilary Russ, Richa Naidu January 21, 2020
Chicago | Reuters — Starbucks Corp. aims to add more plant-based food and drinks to its menu as part of the company’s latest plan to become more environmentally friendly, CEO […] Read more

U.S. grocer Kroger’s plant-based burger patties are sold under its in-house brand, Simple Truth. (Kroger photo via Brandfolder.com)
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Major grocers roll out plant-based burgers, undercut Beyond Meat

By Richa Naidu January 8, 2020
Chicago | Reuters — Cashing in on rising demand for imitation meat, major retailers including Kroger and Walmart recently began to carry Beyond Meat’s plant-based burgers and sausages. Now, several […] Read more


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Impossible Whoppers contaminated by meat, suit claims

By Jonathan Stempel, Richa Naidu November 18, 2019
Reuters — Burger King was sued on Monday by a vegan customer who accused the fast-food chain of contaminating its meatless “Impossible” Whoppers by cooking them on the same grills […] Read more

Vanilla farmer Jao Nasaina holds a spear and a handmade gun as he patrols at his plantation, to guard the crop against thieves, in Ambavala, near Andapa in the Sava region of Madagascar on July 14, 2018. (Photo: Reuters/Clarel Faniry Rasoanaivo)
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Spice maker seeks path to make vanilla milkshakes cheaper

By Richa Naidu June 3, 2019
Chicago/Antananarivo, Madagascar | Reuters — A kilo of vanilla beans costs more than a kilo of silver. Cultivated painstakingly over years from an orchid plant, vanilla is the second most […] Read more

Ken Christopher looks at cloves of garlic on a conveyer belt on March 29, 2019 at Christopher Ranch at Gilroy, California, about 40 km southeast of San Jose. (Photo: Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)
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U.S. garlic growers profit from trade war as most farmers struggle

By Lucy Nicholson, Richa Naidu May 21, 2019
Gilroy, California | Reuters — Unlike millions of other U.S. farmers, garlic growers are profiting from the trade war with China and have cheered President Donald Trump’s latest economic attack […] Read more


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