Tag: pepsi
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Is This An American Beverage Association Ad In Disguise?
If the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is placing ads attacking Mayor Bloomberg’s proposal to limit the size of soft drinks to 16 ounces, he must have done something right.
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How the US Sold Africa to Multinationals Like Monsanto, Cargill, DuPont, PepsiCo and Others
The New Alliance was announced in conjunction with the G8 meeting last Friday. Under the scheme, some 45 corporations, including Monsanto, Syngenta, Yara International, Cargill, DuPont, and PepsiCo, have pledged a total of $3.5 billion in investment in Africa.
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Fast-Food Burgers Have Tripled In Size Since the 1950s: CDC
According to a shocking new graphic from the Centers for Disease Control, a typical fast-food burger weighed just 3.9 ounces in the 1950s. Now, it’s 12 ounces — three times larger.
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#BingeAndPurge: Cinnamon and Slime With Your GM Fetal Soda?
Cinnamon Challenge YouTube Craze Gains Millions of Viewers, Frightens Health Professionals as the Copycat Effect Kicks In // USDA to Americans: You’ll Eat Pink Slime Whether You Want It or Not // Obama agency rules Pepsi’s use of aborted fetal cells in soft drinks constitutes ‘ordinary business operations’
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Coke, Pepsi Change Recipe to Avoid Caramel-Color Cancer Warning
Coca-Cola and Pepsi are changing the recipes for their soft drinks to avoid being forced by law to put a cancer warning on the label. The caramel colouring in the drinks will contain lower levels of 4-methylimidazole, which has been added to the list of carcinogens in California law.
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Battle Over Pretzel Crisps Shows Value of a Brand
Trademarks Take On New Importance in Internet Era from nytimes.com: As a serial snack-food entrepreneur, Warren Wilson is no stranger to the challenges of running a business. In the early days of his first enterprise, selling funnel cakes at fairs, there was the time when, tired of losing money on inclement days, he bought weather…
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Fetus to Feed Us? OK Senator Says No to Aborted Fetal Cells In Food
Senomyx, a California-based biotechnology company that specializes in developing food flavorings, is one such company that uses aborted embryonic cells to create “isolated human taste receptors,” which are used in the production of food chemicals.
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food & beverage companies hedge fund managers love
from seeking alpha: Food and beverage companies tend to be a somewhat safe bet. Many people will continue to buy their favorite soda or snack food no matter how tight money gets. This fact tends to translate into a beta that is around 0.50, give or take, meaning the companies in this industry tend to…
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pepsico wants to ‘scare the crap’ out of your kids
from civil eats: PepsiCo has long been my poster child for food corporations whose actions speak louder than words when to comes to responsible marketing. CEO Indra Nooyi loves to tout the company’s “Performance with Purpose” and show off the company’s “good-for-you” foods that it gets to define. Most don’t realize that PepsiCo is the…
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Wholesale Prices Rise Due to Biggest Jump in Food Costs In Over 36 Yrs
Wholesale prices jumped last month by the most in nearly two years due to higher energy costs and the steepest rise in food prices in 36 years.
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1/6 binge & purge: food banks, no-bids & drinkify-ing
millions in US heading to foodbanks for first time* usda certified organic’s dirty little secret: neotame, from the makers of aspartame* food supply company, employing fmr head of defense contracting agency, wins $4b no-bid contract* pepsi puts an end to chewing by ‘drinkifying’ food* another reason fast food makes you fat & sick: fluoride in…
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12/23 binge & purge: hotel, motel, holiday in (cambodia)
obama to sign ‘food safety bill’ in early 2011* food safety bill proceeds after snafu fixed* terror plot to attack US hotel & restaurant food over a single weekend* al-ciada looking to attack US food?* US food chains investing in cambodia* feds order farmer to destroy wheat crops: shocking revelations of wickard v filburn* ‘save…
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6/24 Binge & Purge: Food Facts & Fiction
Big brother is watching you – and he has ice cream! // Pepsico marketing mix-up results in lemon-lime Doritos // Experts say breakfast now 6th most important meal of the day // Audio: All-natural food preservative causes all-natural cancer
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3/25 Binge & Purge: Nanotech, Soda, Strong-Arm Tactics & Satire
Unregulated nanotech foods coming to grocery near you // Audio Satire: scientists isolate Pepsi-resistant gene // Whole Foods, United Natural Foods muscle suppliers to boycott consumer group // Johnson & Johnson under DOJ scrutiny for illicit drug payoffs, kickbacks // Video Satire: Stouffers to include suicide prevention tips on single-serve microwave meals
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mountain dew ad campaign portends fascist future
from truth news: In a marketing strategy certainly in tune with the times, Mountain Dew envisions the not unlikely concept of a future fascist police state. An earlier Mountain Dew advert featured a hapless window puppeteer raided by a SWAT team in New York. Does Mountain Dew and PepsiCo know something the rest of us…