Ocean Spray Accused Of False Labeling And Marketing Of Dried Cranberries
We chronicled, at length, the long and desperate thirst for justice that Jim and Theresa Nolan fought against Ocean Spray. Vindication was to be theirs, but it was a bitter-sweet vindication, following the passing of Jim Nolan and the valiant stand by his widow, Theresa, to see the righteous triumph. If the battle was to […]
Are USDA Stimulus Funds Actually Going To Create New Jobs? Or Are They Just Currying Favor With Local Politicians?
The question of whether and to what degree the national stimulus program has worked is hotly debated. We looked at the portion of the stimulus package that seems to be going to the food industry and, in a piece for The Weekly Standard, questioned how any of this expenditure could possibly produce net new long […]
Is Marking Some Produce “Farm To Store In 24” Good For Fresh & Easy? Is It Good For The Produce Industry?
Our extensive analysis of Tesco’s Journey to America as Fresh & Easy has served as a wonderful case study into the way at least one giant corporation does business. One of the things that has been interesting is how often, even if technically accurate, the announcements from headquarters are not entirely frank. For example, Fresh […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — What To Do About Bad Apples
Our piece, We Have Our Own Selves To Blame For Poor Growth in Consumption, brought many notes, including this knowledgeable respondent: Did you think that I would not have something to say about your “Toy Story Apple Tale”? It reminds me of the strategy behind the Happy Meal — push the toy to sell the […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Hairnets In The Field There For A Reason
We ran a piece built around a letter from Alan Siger, President & CEO at Consumers Produce Co., Inc. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The piece poked a little fun at the idea of wearing hairnets in an outdoor field as a food safety measure. Now we are getting double-teamed: First came this note: I can appreciate […]
Lifetime Of Changes
As you might imagine here at the Pundit, we are set up with all kinds of feeds and subscriptions to keep us abreast of as much as possible within our sphere of professional interest. Most of it, of course, is exactly what we expected but, every once in awhile, something serendipitous crosses our screen. One […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Industry Tired Of EWG’s Smear Tactics
Our piece, New Scientific Report Shoots Down EWG’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ List As Misleading And An Impediment To Public Health brought many nice notes including this one: Very nice work and comments on the Alliance for Food and Farming’s campaign to set the record straight when it comes to the misleading information spread by EWG. I […]
Harder To Be Kind
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, recently gave a graduation speech at Princeton. He entitled his remarks We Are What We Choose. Today’s world is highly competitive and most middle and upper class families work very hard to help their children prepare to compete. We make sure the school work gets done and provide lots […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Hair Net PR
The great thing about being an Ex–chairman of an organization is that you get to say things that the incumbent can’t. Such is a letter we just received from United’s Chairman in 1992: Do you not think it’s a bit much to be wearing hair nets in a lettuce field? I guess the birds and […]
We Have Our Own Selves To Blame For Poor Growth In Consumption
Last year, the proposal to bring a national generic marketing program to the produce industry was a big focus of contention. We ran many articles, many letters, but of all we wrote about, one letter hangs with us. It was a note sent from Bill Vogel, President at Tavilla Sales LA in Los Angeles. We […]
