UK & World News: Food industry experience offered

Source: Flintshire Chronicle

Thousands of unemployed young people are to be given free skills training from giants of the food industry. Farms, factories and shops are throwing open their doors for the scheme, Feeding Britain's Future. ...
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Source: Today's Zaman

The rags-to-riches tale of an eight-year-old running a simple roadside lemonade stand becoming the leading lemonade producer in America tells us that we too could create something spectacular out of nothing more than a dr ...
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Families jump into the PE pool

Source: ChicagoBusiness.com

“Honestly, I think it's more fun,” says Jennifer Steans of direct ownership. “There are economic reasons as well.” While private-equity investing is nothing new for wealthy families, it's catching fire as family offices—asset man ...
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Taichung brews up tourist interest with DIY tea-making

Source: China Post

TAIPEI--Tourists who visit central Taiwan's Taichung will get a hands-on experience that will help them truly understand the lifestyle of this city often missed by foreign tourists, tourism industry offi ...
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Animal rights group to show video in Santa Ana

Source: The Orange County Register

SANTA ANA – The Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM) plans to bring a video to downtown Santa Ana on Saturday, May 26 to show the public graphic, undercover footage from factory farms and slaughterhouses. FARM hope ...
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The Biggest Farm Bill Loser: Cartoon Explains a Corrupt Food System

Source: Treehugger

The connection between farmers, consumers, food industry lobbyists, and the government itself can be murky. In four minutes you’ll learn about the biggest losers and winners in the current American food system and I’ll give you a hint, it’s not ...
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Marketers: Here are 10 offbeat holidays to celebrate in June

Source: The Next Web

As marketers, your job is to be creative, creative, and more creative. Before a campaign is even launched, you’re already looking for ways to further the creativity and boost performance. Add to that those ideas that are ...
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Will Allen's `Good Food Revolution'

Source: Entrepreneur.com

Will Allen didn't set out to become a food industry revolutionary -- he just wanted to open a roadside stand to sell fresh produce from his small hobby farm. But this former professional basketball player soon transformed a 2-acre lot wit ...
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Fast Food Fat Tax-- Letter to the Editor

Source: OpPapers.com

21 June 2012 The Editor The Herald Sun GPO Box 130 MELBOURNE VIC 3150 Dear Editor PUSHING fast food franchises out of Darebin is an imprudent method of decreasing obesity rates. As a single parent, I believe the ‘Fast Food Fat Tax’ (McDonald’ ...
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