Archives for August 7, 2005

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Weekly Comment

Turning food into trash

Water, we save. Energy, we conserve. But food, it seems, we can waste, junk and bin and no-one cares. Except one crusader, whose 20-year project has proven what should have been obvious in the first place: our attitude to food is costing us a fortune.

Coke bottler explores functional milk deal

By  Chris Mercer

Coca-Cola, hit by a slow-down in fizzy drinks sales, may be looking to expand into vitamin-enriched milk after the firm's bottling arm announces talks to buy control of Bravo! Foods.

Vietnam may lift rice export restrictions

Vietnamese rice exports could soon increase as higher than expected yields allow the government to lift its export restriction, according to an Asia Pulse report.