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Fast Food: A Love Story
London has a love-hate relationship with fast food. Public health campaigns and celebrity chefs vilify it and warn it could kill us; yet, as this film shows, we’ve never had it so good. This programme provides... A Brazilian retail group to enter French Carrefour's capital
French retail giant Carrefour is currently negotiating a merger of its activities in Brazil with CBD, the leading Brazilian retail group and supermarket franchise. This project could vivid tensions between Carrefour and its main competitor in France, Casino.Carrefour last... Reducing the Demand for Whale and Dolphin Meat in Japan
Reducing the Demand for Whale and Dolphin Meat in Japan __________________________________________________________________________ 2,500 Japanese supermarket and convenience stores to stop selling whale, dolphin... Chilling Facts: Supermarket Refrigeration and Climate Change
With all the environmental concerns out there, it can be tricky to keep up with everything, let alone take all the information into consideration all the time. One more environmental culprit we can add to the... Shops should give £800m of waste food to needy
Supermarkets should make more of an effort to hand out unsold food to the hungry, a Scottish MSP has said. He claims Scotland threw away £800 million worth last year and most of it would have ended up landfill sites. Mike Pringle has asked stores, and the Scottish... The death of the British pub?
Two dozen pubs are closing every week across Britain as more and more people buy booze from supermarkets and have more 'nights in'. The pub is a British instution and unless something is done soon it will be a...
created by Paul Conneally | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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640 views | 12 recommendations | 5 comments
Thousands of Protesters Out in Force Against High Fuel
Thousands upon thousands of people all across Europe have taken to the streets to protest the increasingly high cost of fuel. Truckers, fishermen and anyone who uses fuel on a regular basis for their employment have been out in force in protests, some of which have...Can you feel peak oil yet?
Jim Kunstler is sensing something in the air. Could it be the symptoms of peak oil?" We're in a strange collective psychic bubble. We'd like to forgetabout all these troubling rumors of hardship and...Trading Standards Investigating Price Fixing
The British equivalent of trading standards, The Office Of Fair Trade is investigating allegations of price fixing "About 100 leading household brands, including PG Tips, Coca-Cola and Aquafresh, are at the centre...Pressure grows in UK over plastic bag scourge
Momentum is gathering in the UK against the use of plastic bags, 13 billion of which are estimated to be given to shoppers each year. The government's marketing agency has said it will stop using plastic bags for...
created by Rachel Nixon | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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446 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
China Bans Plastic Bags
4-5 trillion plastic bags are produced annually. If you haven't already, I suggest doing some research into other alternatives."China’s surprise crackdown on plastic bags, announced on Tuesday, will prohibit the...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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339 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
Shiny Happy Vegies...Smiling Faces in the Japanese Supermarket
From Boxing Pumpkins to cheerful Satsumas, a trip down the produce aisle in a Tokyo supermarket can put a smile on your face. Satsumas as I learned are mandarins (originally grown in Japan and China). They are resistant to cold. Trees produce white blossoms in March/April and...Wine's Fine But Lager Sales Go Flat
"Wine's Fine But Lager Sales Go Flat Updated: 11:30, Friday August 10, 2007 Lager is suffering a dip in popularity as drinkers choose more "sophisticated" alternatives, a report has said. The amount sold in the UK is down 5% compared to 2005, according to market analysts... Latest Potter breaks records around world
"The latest Harry Potter book continues to break records around the world while in the UK, Waterstones sales were more than double those of the previous volume of the boy wizard's adventures.
In the first seven... Cheap Drink Offers Could Be Axed
"Restrictions to end heavily-discounted offers for cheap alcohol are being considered in Scotland. Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill has said he is looking at ways of encouraging responsible sales and targeting...NowPublic on Facebook
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