Egg Agribusiness Gets Aggro Over Oats Cage Free Policy
Is Corporate America Really That Pathetic? Okay so maybe corporate America isn’t ill willed and pathetically whiny, but lately I’ve been wondering about big agribusiness. Remember when the beef lobby for talking common sense health about eating red meat sued Oprah? Ever buy fresh chicken that is as frozen as the Ben & Jerry’s chunky […]
Retail Wrecking Ball Part of Safeway’s Renewal
“Holy granola they tore down the Safeway,” I yelled driving through Mill Valley last week. In case you don’t know, north of San Francisco is Marin County where there’s less fog, more sunshine and even more money. The dreary Safeways in Mill Valley always surprised me. And while a lot of these well-heeled Mill Valley-ites […]
Crown Princess Wins FDA Contest As Andrea Linton’s Wit Works Wonders
Andrea Linton, Natural Products Manager for Crown Prince, emailed me from up the road in Petaluma (once the chicken capital of the west coast and now more precious and pricier than platinum) with this sterling entry to our contest to name the real meaning behind the initials FDA. Here regal answer was: FIRMLY DEMENTED ATAGONISTS. […]
Study Shows We Haven’t All Gone Stupid or Gotten Duped
UK Shoppers Believe Quality Ingredients Not Price Determine Premium Products While staying at a friend’s house in Seattle last month I noticed a can of McSteven’s premium gourmet chocolate cocoa. The label swore to the old fashioned virtues of McSteven’s but the fact was that the ingredients weren’t. http://s215570773.onlinehome.us/site/cms/levine/index.php5?entry=true NBN News ::: Admin Area ::: Levine […]
Contest: Find the High-Five-ing Happy WFM Clerks Cheerily Stocking the She
Newsweek’s Puff Piece Good But Come On Send us a photo, candid shots only please, (or really artfully staged recreations) of any two clerks stocking shelves, slicing cheese, or patting parsley on the produce rack, exchanging high fives and you will receive a prize donated by whatever manufacturer friend happens to be good enough to […]
This Little Big Pharma Piggy Went to Market
The Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex (lets call it PHIC for short, folks) lobbed another grenade last week, aiming to increase profits yet minimize choice and affordable public health. Last week, Pfizer announced that the testing of its new cholesterol drug Torcetrapib will be conducted only in combination with Lipitor. If the test plan is approved by […]
FDA Contest: What’s behind those three letters?
Send your suggestions for what the initials F.D.A. really mean tofdafun@naturalbusinessnews.com Here are a few examples to set your logical minds free from constraints: Federal Dumb Asses Freedom Does Anything Four Doses Above Fawn Deer Auntie Okay have fun, play nice, get creative and keep your fingers crossed. Winners will be announced in April. Prizes […]
Whole Foods Opens on Union Square
Calling it “the equivalent of the Beatles Concert at Shea Stadium” for Whole Foods fanatics, Jim Crotty, one of the monks of Monk Magazine, called me today to report on the “total scene” at the opening of Whole Foods latest New York store in Union Square. “People were walking around inspecting things,” Crotty said, adding […]
Kafka for Supplement Buyers—Literary Food for Thought
“That was how it was. And I nodded to the family. They knew nothing about it, and had they known, would not have believed it. To write prescriptions with people is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.” Franz Kafka, from A Country Doctor (Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir)
Was Wal-Mart’s Interest In Wild Oats The Real Reason For Whole Foods Buy
While we never thought that the prospect of a conventional grocer’s purchase of Wild Oats was reason enough for Whole Foods to purchase the ungainly, troubled #2 chain, we recently heard some news that makes WFM’s buyout of Oats a lot morel logical. Turns out that more and more folks have been reporting that a […]