Warnings about the heavy metal content in larger and longer-lived ocean fish are nothing new. The situation has, in fact, become worse since the Millennium. Now, a European food safety watchdog group has declared canned tuna a ‘colossal risk to public health’…Read More →
You can’t say Starbuck’s new corporate trou-bleshooter is an ivory-tower autocrat who thinks he knows everything about everything. Turns out Starbuck’s CEO Brian Niccol went ‘under cover’ to research the chain’s woes before reporting to the Board and fans…Read More →
The social media revolt against Canada’s lar-gest supermarket chain continues. And it’s broken out from it’s ‘home’ on Reddit to per-vade Canadian ‘X’ threads. A new ultra-dark anti-Loblaw’s rant claims, “Loblaw’s has zero respect for you. They hate you…”Read More →
I’m sure everyone in the world who has access to any kind of electronic news source knows Republican Party candidate Donald Trump has been declared winner of yesterday’s US presi-dential election by a proverbial ‘landslide’. What does this mean for our Food?Read More →
Paper packaging producer DS Smith has an important story to tell. But food manufactur-ers and processors have to pick up on it, if the tale is to have a happy ending. More than half of all plastic food packaging can be replaced by sustainable alternatives…Read More →
In a truly odd turn of events… The continuing rise in coffee prices – and attendant drop in sales – has resulted in an economic-sphere demonstration of Newton’s Third Law of Motion: Diet Soda/Soft Drink sales are up by about the same amount as coffee is down…Read More →
The Resto of the Future movement is finally catching up with the Little Red-Haired Girl. Wendy’s is closing its ‘under-performing’ stores in preparation for a massive identity update and business model shakeup to prepare for the inevitable…Read More →
We’re told that inflation has plateaued. Food prices are down a touch. And there’s hope on the horizon that retail food prices will begin to moderate – albeit very gradually – later this year. But Canada’s Food Banks say demand is still spiralling upward…Read More →