Students From Farming Communities Beware: America’s Elite Universities Have A Bias Against You
Organizations such as the PMA Foundation for Industry Talent have missions that include making young people aware of the opportunities that exist for them to work in the produce industry. There may be a bigger opportunity for this than we realized as a new study indicates that many students from farm families and from the […]
Advice To Wal-Mart’s ‘Heritage’ Farmers: Don’t Put All Your Eggs In One Basket
When we contributed to the National Public Radio piece, Wal-Mart Helps Small Farms Supply Local Foods, and followed up with our piece, Wal-Mart’s Heritage Agriculture Program Gets Good Press But Doesn’t Make A Dent, one of the interesting side effects was we received phone calls from a few of the farmers participating in Wal-Mart’s Heritage […]
Wendy’s New Salads Look Like Winners: But Will They Help Reduce Obesity?
Wendy’s announced its new entrée salad offerings: Wendy’s Raises the Bar on SaladsFour New Salads Deliver High Quality Ingredients, Freshly Prepared Wendy’s, the chain that first brought the salad bar to fast food customers over 30 years ago, then pioneered the premium salad offering with their Garden Sensations line in 2002, is reinventing QSR salads […]
Fresh & Easy Must Go ‘Cold Turkey’ To Overcome Crack-cocaine-like Addiction To Discount Coupons
We’ve covered Tesco’s journey to America extensively and our most recent piece — Tesco Puts Up ‘Tens of Millions’ And Purchases British Transplants Wild Rocket And 2 Sisters Foods — Was A Secret Promise Made To Make The British Suppliers Whole? Did This Constitute Fraud Against Its Own Shareholders? — raised implications regarding Tesco’s behavior […]
New Scientific Report Shoots Down EWG’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ List As Misleading And An Impediment To Public Health
The amount of “research” that is publicized today is enormous, and much of it is more designed for political rather than scientific purposes. Just recently, we asked how Yale could tolerate propaganda being dressed up as research in a piece we titled Flawed Yale Study On Junk Food Promotes Policy Without Evidence. Earlier we analyzed […]
Who Will Kroger Pick As New VP Of Perishables?
Kroger sent out news regarding a new position opening for its Group Vice President of Perishables: Kroger Names Joe Grieshaber President of Dillon Food Stores The Kroger Co. today announced Joe Grieshaber has been named President of Kroger’s Dillon Food Stores Division, replacing John Bays, who is retiring after 42 years with Kroger. “Joe’s merchandising […]
Pundit’s Mailbag — Wal-Mart or Walmart?
Lately we have been getting some helpful e-mails on our spelling; they all relate to one company: Hey Jim, Walmart does not have a capital M. — Jim Vangelos President & CEO Polymer Logistics Arro Grande, California It is always a pleasure to hear from Jim Vangelos. He has written us before, including here. Plus […]
The Oddity of “Performance Related” Pay At Tesco: Tim Mason Got Paid More Even Though Losses Grew At Fresh & Easy
We don’t know whether The Serious Fraud Office will elect to investigate Tesco to determine whether its executives and board perpetrated a fraud against its shareholders by failing to disclose promises that could have been made to the owners of British transplants that Tesco may have induced to open in the US. We discussed the […]
Center For Produce Safety Concludes First Research Symposium With Much To Be Proud Of
Tim York, President of Markon Cooperative and Chairman of the Board of Advisors of the Center for Produce Safety, opened its inaugural Produce Research Symposium with a startling analogy: What the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was to a generation of Americans, so the great Spinach Crisis of 2006 was to a generation of […]
Public Policymakers Pick Up On Pundit’s Proposals For Safer Food
Our piece, How to Improve Food Safety: Aggrandizing The FDA only Distracts from Real Solutions written for The New Atlantis, a Washington, DC-based journal of technology and society, has begun to percolate through the public policy community. Part of this process is getting picked up in academic-related venues such as CIDRAP, the Center for Infectious […]
