July 2010
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Choc Finger's Big Bet: Speculators Rediscover... →
The turbulence in the cocoa market is the most recent sign that speculation is back, and that the international financial markets have rediscovered agricultural commodities. They are now betting big again on commodities like wheat, coffee, rice and soybeans. As a result, prices are no longer determined by supply and demand, but by investment banks and hedge funds.
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Workers Clear 1,000 Tons of Fat From London Sewer... →
The fat is the product of Londoners’ “sewer abuse” — using the water system as general garbage disposal. Particularly troublesome is Londoners’ habit of pouring used cooking oil down the sink. Once in the sewer, the oil cools, congeals and then traps other garbage. Getting at the goo was not easy. Teams of workers, replete with breathing apparatus to protect them from...
BBC News - EU health food claims law begins to... →
Health foods would be be nothing without the claims they make on the packaging. But some claims might soon vanish, due to a European regulation which demands that health food companies come up with the scientific evidence to back their labelling.