Category: wally world
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Pay For Label
<a href="http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2008/02/09/news/south_dakota/559d65ec5b34774b862573ea001513d1.txt">Ag groups blast plan to make retailers pay for labeling </a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A plan to have retailers pay for part of the costs of country-of-origin labeling is another attempt to derail the plan, leaders of several agricultural groups say.<br />n<br />n"It's just <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The…
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I’m Confused
I've been hearing about an economic stimulus package, what a name for a plan to give our money back to us, for a little while now. Now we are seeing an actual plan from <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/ECONOMY_STIMULUS?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">bothe the House and Senate</a>.<br />n<br />nI'm a little confused by this "economic stimulus plan" and how it is going…
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I Missed The Memo
I tell you what, I've obviously missed some memo somewhere.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>It comes as no surprise to anyone that the number of organic farms is booming to meet consumer demand for healthy food. </blockquote><br />n<br />nThis is the opening sentence in <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/06/10/news/business/50-cowfeed.txt">this article</a>. When did the decision come about that organic=healthy? <br />n<br />n<blockquote>organic-…
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Organic Or Not
Hat tip to <a href="http://www.sfolife.net/?p=2121">Randy</a> for this one.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://retail.seekingalpha.com/article/20688" >Wal-Mart's Organic Food Initiative: A Case of Hippie Capitalism Gone Awry?</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Wal-Mart (WMT) has run afoul for potentially misrepresenting non-organic food as organic. Much skepticism about Wal-Mart’s true commitment to organic and whole foods greeted Wal-Mart’s original announcement that they are embracing the…