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| Anheuser-Busch shareholders sue over offer
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| Company maintains $46.3 billion InBev offer undervalues company
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July 1, 2008 |
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| Anheuser-Busch taking caffeine out of drinks
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| In settlement with New York agrees to reformulate Bud Extra and Tilt.
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June 26, 2008 |
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| Anheuser-Busch says no to $46B InBev offer
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| The move may still not keep the iconic U.S. brewer from being sold.
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June 26, 2008 |
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| Asian Development Bank: Biofuels making food more expensive
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| Developed nations should stop paying agricultural subsidies to encourage biofuel production because the payments are making staple foods more expensive, the Asian Development Bank said Monday.
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April 21, 2008 |
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| At Up to $1,200 a Fill-Up, Truckers to Strike Over Record Diesel Prices
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| Some independent U.S. truckers are planning to stop hauling freight on April 1 in protest of record-high diesel prices that are cutting into profit margins.
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April 1, 2008 |
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| Brazil president defends biofuels
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| Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has rejected allegations that biofuels are responsible for the recent rise in global food prices.
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April 17, 2008 |
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| Burma's rice harvest under threat
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| Farmers in the areas most affected by Cyclone Nargis need rice seed by the end of June, or Burma's rice harvest will fail, the United Nations says.
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May 18, 2008 |
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| Bush offers $770m for food crisis
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| George W Bush has offered $770m in international food aid to help ease the effects of surging food prices that have sparked riots in some countries.
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May 1, 2008 |
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| Climate could devastate crops
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| Climate change could cause severe crop losses in South Asia and southern Africa over the next twenty years, a study in the journal Science says.
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January 31, 2008 |
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| Corn harvest shortage will hike food prices
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| Government data show an expected decline due to Midwest floods.
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June 30, 2008 |
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| Costs of lower-calorie foods are rising the fastest
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| As food prices rise, the costs of lower-calorie foods are rising the fastest, according to a University of Washington study appearing in the December issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
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December 6, 2007 |
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| Do biofuels cause famine? EU President opens probe
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| The Commission seems in the process of shifting away from its previous unbridled support for the technology. It emerged last weekend that the Commission may cancel its target of requiring ten per cent of petrol and diesel to be biofuel by 2020.
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April 25, 2008 |
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| EU faces deadline on GM food ban
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| A deadline for the EU to end restrictions on imports of genetically modified foods is due to expire.
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January 11, 2008 |
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| FDA OKs meat, milk from most cloned animals
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| "Extensive evaluation of the available data has not identified any subtle hazards that might indicate food-consumption risks in healthy clones of cattle, swine, or goats," the 968-page "final risk assessment" concluded.
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January 15, 2008 |
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| G-8 Concerned About Rising Oil, Food Prices
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| Soaring oil and food prices are emerging as serious threats to global economic growth, finance ministers from the world's top industrialized nations said Saturday, while vowing to work together to address the problem.
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June 14, 2008 |
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| Global food prices fall in April
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| World food prices fell in April for the first time in 15 months, according to figures from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
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May 15, 2008 |
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| Hershey Chief Retires
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| Richard H. Lenny, who has struggled to preserve The Hershey prominence as the nation's largest candy maker, said Monday that he will retire as chairman, president and chief executive at the end of this year.
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October 2, 2007 |
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| InBev pitches buyout bid to Bud shareholders
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| Belgian brewer challenging Anheuser-Busch's rebuff of $46 billion offer.
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July 1, 2008 |
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| InBev raises offer for brewer Anheuser-Busch
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| Reports: Maker of Bud beer is likely to accept sweetened buyout offer.
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July 11, 2008 |
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| InBev seeks to replace Anheuser-Busch board
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| Belgian brewer increasing its takeover pressure on Budweiser maker.
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July 7, 2008 |
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| InBev to buy Anheuser-Busch for $52B
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| Belgian brewer InBev has announced it will buy its U.S. rival Anheuser-Busch for $52 billion to create the world's largest brewer.
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July 14, 2008 |
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| Increasing Food Quality Risks Are Affecting Global Food Supply Chain
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| A new study illustrates the real potential for contamination of globally sourced foods and proposes a conceptual framework of supply chain quality management.
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March 8, 2008 |
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| Iowa faces potential $3 billion in crop loss
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| The flood damage to Iowa crops could reach $3 billion, according to the state's agriculture secretary.
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June 21, 2008 |
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| Merger Creates Food Supply Chain Network
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| iTradeNetwork and Instill deliver a combined solution to retail and food service industries.
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May 2, 2008 |
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| New Method Detects Fraud in Organically Grown Produce
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| As organic farming becomes more common, methods to identify fraud in the industry are increasingly important. In a recent study in Journal of Environmental Quality, scientists successfully use nitrogen isotopic discrimination to determine if non-organic, synthetic fertilizers were used on sweet pepper plants.
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February 5, 2008 |
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| NYC keeps the cannoli but drops the trans fats
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| Chefs struggle to retool recipes before the country's first ban takes effect.
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June 29, 2008 |
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| Research Grant for Improving Food Safety with Nanotechnology
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| QuantumSphere, Inc., a leading manufacturer of nano metals and alloys for applications in renewable energy, portable power, defense, electronics and other markets demanding advanced materials, today announced that it has awarded a research grant to Byron Brehm-Stecher, Ph.D, of Iowa State University to conduct research in the use of nanomaterials to improve the safety of the world's food supply.
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February 6, 2008 |
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| Restaurant point of sale
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| Riots, instability spread as food prices skyrocket
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| Riots from Haiti to Bangladesh to Egypt over the soaring costs of basic foods have brought the issue to a boiling point and catapulted it to the forefront of the world's attention, the head of an agency focused on global development said Monday.
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April 14, 2008 |
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| Rising Demand Spells Scant Relief for Food Costs
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| As Americans shell out more at the supermarket, more people around the world will wonder where their next meal will come from.
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May 14, 2008 |
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| Senate Republicans Call on EPA to Ease Ethanol Requirements
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| Senate Republicans have asked environmental regulators to use their power to halt the country's plans to expand ethanol production amid rising food prices.
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May 5, 2008 |
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| Starbucks to close 600 stores in the U.S.
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| Company greatly increases plans for store closures amid weak economy
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July 1, 2008 |
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| Toll Of Climate Change On World Food Supply Could Be Worse Than Thought
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| Global agriculture, already predicted to be stressed by climate change in coming decades, could go into steep, unanticipated declines in some regions due to complications that scientists have so far inadequately considered, say three new scientific reports.
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December 4, 2007 |
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| Topps Meat Co. Shutters Business 6 Days After Second-Largest U.S. Meat Recall
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| Topps Meat Co. on Friday said it was closing its business, six days after it was forced to issue the second-largest beef recall in U.S. history and 67 years after it first opened its doors.
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October 6, 2007 |
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| UN sets up food crisis task force
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| The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is setting up a task force to tackle the global food crisis.
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April 29, 2008 |
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| Use of nanomaterials in food packaging poses regulatory challenges
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| Engineered nanoscale materials (ENMs), which contain novel properties that offer potential benefits for use in food packaging, raise new safety evaluation challenges for regulators and industry, according to a report released today by the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN) and the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA).
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June 25, 2008 |
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| Wal-Mart Rations Rice, Warns of 'Supply and Demand' Concerns
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| Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, said Wednesday that it would ration the amount of rice each customer can purchase at its Sam's Club warehouse stores because of recent "supply and demand trends."
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April 23, 2008 |
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| Wendy's Sales on the Rise
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| Wendy's said sales at its company-owned hamburger restaurants open at least 15 months rose 0.2 percent in the third quarter.
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October 4, 2007 |
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| Widespread Hunger Looms In Wake Of 'Silent Tsunami' From High Food Prices, U.N. Food Agency Warns
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| The World Food Programme (WFP) has said that high food prices are creating the biggest challenge that WFP has faced in its 45-year history, a silent tsunami threatening to plunge more than 100 million people on every continent into hunger.
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April 23, 2008 |
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| With Food Costs Rising, Lawmakers Debate the Benefits of Ethanol
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| Just months ago, ethanol was the Holy Grail to energy independence and a "green fuel" that would help nudge the country away from climate changing fossil energy.
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May 6, 2008 |
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