Some companies are creating their own fair trade guidelines, claiming their guidelines are superior to those of third-party certifiers like Rainforest Alliance. Consumers have a right to be suspicious of such self-serving guidelines Big Food labeling practices.
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Palm oil plantations on illegally deforested land in Sumatra – home to elephants, orangutans and tigers – have allegedly been used to supply scores of household brands, says new report.
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Campbell Soup Co. CPB, -1.48% Chief Executive Denise Morrison said Wednesday during the company's investor event that the company will withdraw from the Grocery Manufacturer's Association (GMA), a major food association, by the end of the calendar year.
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You can learn a lot about how the voting public thinks based on what's available to eat in chain restaurants.
After this last election, we already know the way America votes. Now, after spending the last three weeks on the road, I know the way America eats. I’m convinced these two things are connected.
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The Golden Arches represent "the Donald Trump of corporations," activists and workers say
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From Seattle to San Francisco, Albuquerque to Raleigh, cities are joining the fight to defund the controversial pipeline.
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It turns out that only a portion of the milk that is used by the Tillamook County Creamery Association (TCCA)* to make their famous cheeses is produced by those cows munching that rich, coastal grass. Instead, Tillamook has partnered with Threemile Canyon Farms in Boardman on the Columbia River, a factory farm that produces around 2 million pounds (that's 233,000 gallons, folks) of milk per day from 30,000 milk cows kept during the entirety of their short lives in confined barns. Add to that another 40,000 animals consisting of calves and "replacement heifers," young females that will be added to the milking herd at two years old.
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A Rainforest Action Network field investigation team has documented new evidence of large-scale, illegal rainforest destruction within habitat critical to the survival of the Sumatran elephant, tiger and orangutan.
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By now you may have heard the shocking news: Subway "chicken" may contain just 50 percent chicken.
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Labor nominee Puzder—whose company, CKE Restaurants, controls the Carl's Jr. and Hardee's chains—has a Senate confirmation hearing scheduled for Thursday, and employees of CKE franchises are pushing back. Protesters rallied in 24 cities earlier this week with signs of Puzder's face superimposed with phrases such as "Wage Thief" and "Tax Cheat."
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