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		<title>Nestlé&#8217;s 2009 report: Creating Shared Value</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just gotten an announcement of Nestlé&#8217;s (no relation) latest corporate social responsibility activities.  It has released the 2009 version of its annual report: &#8220;Creating Shared Value.&#8221; By this, the company means that its activities that benefit society as well as its shareholders in three areas: water, nutrition, and rural development.
According to the report, Nestlé [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foodpolitics.com/2010/03/nestles-new-report-on-creating-shared-value/</link>
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		<title>Join the home farming movement: Partner with Triscuits!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like Triscuits (Nabisco/Kraft) and am especially fond of the &#8220;Hint of Salt&#8221; variety.  These only have three ingredients: whole grain soft white winter wheat, soybean oil, salt.  And the sodium is indeed relatively low &#8211; about 5 mg per cracker.
But I am always suspicious of corporate partnerships and alliances with advocacy groups.  So I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foodpolitics.com/2010/03/join-the-home-farming-movement-partner-with-triscuits/</link>
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		<title>The fate of vitamins in vegetables, stored and cooked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing about nutrition is simple.
I was intrigued by the Observatory column in the New York Times last week.  USDA researchers showed that supermarket spinach stored under continuous fluorescent light retained more vitamins than spinach stored in the dark for at least 9 days.  Their hypothesis: the light promotes continued photosynthesis and protects against degradation.
I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foodpolitics.com/2010/03/the-fate-of-vitamins-in-vegetables-stored-and-cooked/</link>
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		<title>Disturbances on the GM front</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you want to know what&#8217;s really happening in the world of food and nutrition, the business pages are a good starting place.  Today&#8217;s New York Times business section documents the &#8220;stunning&#8221; rise in the price of soybean seeds (up 108% since 2001) and corn seeds (up 135%).
Why care?  Genetically modified (GM) varieties are now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foodpolitics.com/2010/03/disturbances-on-the-gm-front/</link>
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		<title>Does fighting obesity also mean fighting corporations?  So it seems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Corporations go to a lot of trouble to neutralize potential critics.   Recent examples: two co-optations (McDonald&#8217;s alliance with Weight Watchers and PepsiCo&#8217;s with the Yale School of Medicine) and one aggression (Disney&#8217;s forced expulsion of the Center for Commercial-Free Childhood from Harvard).
Co-optation is the winning over or neutralization of opponents by bringing them into the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foodpolitics.com/2010/03/does-fighting-obesity-also-mean-fighting-corporations-so-it-seems/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s up with the hydrolyzed vegetable protein recall?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Carol for this question: &#8220;I am wondering if you are planning to write anything about the current Salmonella Tennessee in hydrolyzed vegetable protein..and how it just might be in &#8220;everything.&#8221;
I wasn&#8217;t planning to make a big deal of the recall of hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) - and the more than 100 products containing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foodpolitics.com/2010/03/whats-up-with-the-hydrolyzed-vegetable-protein-recall/</link>
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		<title>Sugar politics: not so sweet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got a comment this morning from Eric who asks whether I had seen the article in yesterday&#8217;s New York Times about Florida&#8217;s bailout of Big Sugar in the Everglades.  I could hardly miss it.  The story starts on the front page and continues over two full inside pages.
Titled &#8220;Deal to save Everglades may help [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foodpolitics.com/2010/03/sometimes-sugar-policies-are-not-so-sweet/</link>
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		<title>Beverage Association&#8217;s PR spin on bad news for sodas in schools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for the Albany conference on soda taxes (see previous post), the Beverage Association has issued a report on the great progress it is making in reducing calories from sodas sold in schools.
In fact, the Beverage Association is doing a terrific job on reducing soft drink consumption.  Sales of sodas are down by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foodpolitics.com/2010/03/beverage-associations-pr-spin-on-bad-news-for-sodas-in-schools/</link>
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		<title>Tools for promoting soda taxes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been collecting information about soda taxes.  If you think they are worth a try, as I do, and want to help get the New York bill (the Duane Bill) passed, plenty of background information and tools are available.
Tomorrow, March 8, The New York Academy of Medicine, the New York State Healthy Eating and Physical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.foodpolitics.com/2010/03/tools-for-promoting-soda-taxes/</link>
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		<title>Recognize food brands?  Even 3-year-olds do this</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure why this would be news to anyone who has taken a toddler to a grocery store, but researchers at the University of Michigan have now demonstrated that very young children recognize food brands, especially McDonald&#8217;s.  Didn&#8217;t Morgan Spurlock show this in Supersize Me! (also my screen debut)?  Whatever.  It&#8217;s good to have [...]]]></description>
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