Documents tagged with food prices

Food Prices Biting Hard

Inflation is beginning to reassert itself in India. Though the headline numbers compare price levels with those of a year ago, it is also instructive to look at movements in the Wholesale Price Ind...
  • olmposts published this 08 / 26 / 2009
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Rising Food Prices

hey it covers Introduction 1 Reasons - Cause effect 2 Impact 3 projections 4 Actions by government 5 What can government do? 6 How can world bank and donors help? 7 Impact of bi...
  • namita8787 published this 07 / 15 / 2009
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Obama's Energy Plan

We tend to think of energy as being used in factories, yet our American way of life is supported by the need for energy to perform countless tasks
  • rich51 published this 06 / 12 / 2009
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The Truth About Whole Salt

Humans have treasured unrefined whole salts for their health-giving, anti-microbial and culinary properties for thousands of years
  • rich51 published this 06 / 12 / 2009
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MSG -- BIG ALERT ON MSG

MSG, or monosodium glutamate - Why is it used in so many foods, and, is it good for you?
  • rich51 published this 06 / 07 / 2009
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State Budget Problems Worsen

Some 47 states are facing fiscal stress in their FY2009 and/or FY2010 budgets. New mid-year fiscal year 2009 shortfalls of $60 billion have opened up in the budgets of at least 42 states and the ...
  • rich51 published this 06 / 05 / 2009
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Antibacterial Products Aren’t Just Useless—They Can Be Killers

Antibacterial products are absolutely not safe, and are potentially quite dangerous.
  • rich51 published this 06 / 05 / 2009
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Is It Proper For The State To Mandate Medical Treatments?

Families shouldn't have to flee into the night to avoid arrest because they refuse conventional medical treatments
  • rich51 published this 06 / 04 / 2009
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Is it Your Daily Multivitamin – Or, a Candy Pill?

One A Day recently introduced a new product called VitaCraves, described as "complete adult multivitamin gummies."
  • rich51 published this 06 / 04 / 2009
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Remember Vioxx? Thousands of people died from Vioxx

It's been awhile, but it's hard to forget this appalling episode in drug company misbehavior.
  • rich51 published this 06 / 01 / 2009
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Civil Unrest in America?

The study says economic collapse, terrorism and loss of legal order are among possible domestic shocks that might require military action within the U.S
  • rich51 published this 05 / 31 / 2009
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Soft Drinks and America -- WARNING!

According to an article in Beverage, January 1999, "Influencing elementary school students is very important to soft drink marketers." Since the 1960s the industry has increased the single-serving ...
  • rich51 published this 05 / 30 / 2009
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Soft drinks: Unsafe beverages

Americans (and people in other countries) actually drink a product that can rightfully be called Osteoporosis In a Can. And, it gets worse from there
  • rich51 published this 05 / 30 / 2009
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Fluoride – Safe at Any Level of Exposure?

Fluoride is a corrosive poison that will produce serious (health) effects on a long range basis
  • rich51 published this 05 / 30 / 2009
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NCI Study Links Aspartame To Leukemia & Lymphoma

aspartame causes significant increases in lympomas/leukemias and is a multi-potential carcinogen
  • rich51 published this 05 / 28 / 2009
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Economic things I learned or overheard this Memorial Day

the consumer is more worse off than even the news is saying
  • rich51 published this 05 / 27 / 2009
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Rising Food Prices, Poverty, and the Doha Round

In a policy outlook, Rising Food Prices, Poverty, and the Doha Round, Sandra Polaski examines the role of a Doha agreement in light of rising food prices and their impact on global poverty. She fin...
  • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace published this 03 / 19 / 2009
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World Food Prices

The concerns about the rise in food prices, and its implications on poor countries.
  • animalejo published this 07 / 31 / 2008
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