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Fair Food Fighter p.horn_avenger has the scoop. (Er, or at least, she has the scoop here on Fair Food Fight.)
Kraft has sealed a deal for purchasing Cadbury for almost $20 billion. From YahooNews:
The combination of the pair would create the world's biggest confectionary company, replacing Mars Inc., and Kraft CEO Irene Rosenfeld said the deal provides "both immediate value certainty and upside potential" as she tried to appease concerns about the loss of Cadbury's iconic status. Read more...
Twelve days till Christmas! While not too many folks celebrate a week and a half of gift-giving these days, the "first day of Christmas" is a good reminder that if you don't want to Fedex your twelve lords aleaping, you better get shopping. Today. Post-haste.
It's great fodder for discussion, but I thought I'd respond here, rather than soak up too much of his bandwidth with my windbaggery.
I couldn't get through to the Wall Street Journal article to which Lee linked, but Bloomberg basically has the same story if you want to get up to speed on Nestle's decision.
This is really playing out well for Wal-Mart. They have Transfair in their mits - using Paul Rice as a mouthpiece for Sam's Club...then on the other end they are building the most threatening WMD the banana world has ever known....the 39 cent/lb. banana. Read more...
Let me get this right. Can Dole really tout themselves as both a fair trade banana importer while simultaneously breaking the world record for the largest banana display?
Seriously, it's worth watching the video - and check out the price on the heap of over 1,650 cases of bananas. Remember, this transpired in August 2009 NOT 1959.
Halloween shopping is almost upon you, parents -- chocolate, chocolate, chocolate! -- so I need your undivided attention for a minute.
I have two kids so I freely admit I'm vulnerable to media-hyped stories like balloon boy and kidnappings and images of lost children on milk cartons. But this story will even hit people who hate kids. I mean, this one takes the freaking Fair Trade cake: Read more...
This just in from indieWIRE:
"Dole Food Company, Inc. has announced that it is dismissing its defamation lawsuit against filmmakers Fredrik Gertten, Margarete Jangard and WG Film AB in the Los Angeles Superior Court, relating to the film 'Bananas!*.'"
This is great news. As you may remember from previous posts, Dole was trying to stop the release of "Bananas," which details Nicaraguan the farm workers' campaign against the company for using banned pesticides that cause sterility. More about the lawsuit here.
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Now it's getting serious. From Yahoo Finance, CtW Investment Group Calls for Whole Foods Board to Remove Chair and CEO John Mackey
From the article (with additional links provided by Fair Food Fight): Read more...
I take back anything bad I might have said about Cadbury.
Or at least the people who eat their eggs.
Or at least the people who do certifiably insane things with Cadbury Eggs.
