Hain Irwin Simon Rings NASDAQ Bell
Hain Celestial Food’s Irwin Simon rang the bell at the NASDAQ floor June 18th. While we don’t think the high-stress traders were given any organic snacks they probably could use them. The few traders we know eat nothing but junk. Kudos to the crew at Hain.
Sustainable Seafood Ratings From Greenpeace
You might say that life in this modern world gets a bit more complicated by the day. Free-range isn’t all that free, and some organic might be about as corporate as Kellogg’s Snap, Crackle and Pop. The current conundrum — determining which seafood is best to buy, gets a little clearer with some help from […]
LOHAS Wal-Mart and Whole Foods
Interesting piece on the sustainable motivations that link Whole Foods and Wal-Mart. We think everyone knows who is more sincere about changing the planet but its not bad if Sam Walton’s folks want to save money and look good too. http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jun/20/unlikely-pair-talk-green-whole-foods-wal-mart/
New York Times on Hunger and America’s Table Scraps
Anyone who has worked in a restaurant or as a cater waiter like we have has seen more than their share of food get tossed in the trash. One vivid memory of a party for computer giant Oracle at San Francisco’s Exploratorium comes to mind. It was under attended, easy to work, rather boring. Passing […]
CBS Morning Show on Supplements
Hold your nose folks. Okay maybe not. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/07/earlyshow/health/main4161791.shtml
Gourmet Pet Food, Satin Pet Beds, Elegant Pet Burials—How About Getting Fido Cloned
Well we know some people love their pets more than their spouses and frankly we don’t blame anyone who does. Not that we don’t believe in love and marriage. We do. But we also love cuddly and cute furry critters and the fact that humans have an ever increasingly hard time communicating, well that only […]
Some Starve, Others Complain About Whole Foods, This Guy Eats Cat Food for A Living
Well unless you’re under sixteen you’ve no doubt realized by now that life is about as fair as the government’s process for bidding on projects in Iraq. In other words, it isn’t! However if you are sixteen and meeting with your guidance counselor about possible career paths, or maybe you’re just like us and love […]
Obama Loves Honest Tea Forest Berry
So we know this is old news but frankly we were just so busy preparing out soon to be launched Product Review section that we forgot to post this story from the May 28th New York Times. The front page piece detailed the job of Reggie Love, Obama’s assistant, and among other things, what Obama […]
New York Times on Similac Organic Baby Formula
A front page story in Monday’s New York Times discussed the growth of organic baby formula and questioned whether Pharma giant Abbott Nutrition’s Similac Organic’s growing success might be at the cost of infants nursing on the sweetened formula. Unlike other products, the Times reports that Similac Organic uses sucralose as a sweetener. (Free registration required). While […]
United Natural Foods Conference Call—Will Wall Street See Roses in the Warehouse?
For a long time we’ve been wondering when Wall Street would wake up and smell the roses lurking in the forklifts, warehouses and trucks emblazoned with the United Natural Foods logo. UNFI’s recent conference call shows us more reasons why we wonder. The call suggests what we’ve said all along, that the company’s acquisition of […]
