Morsels: fat cows, tobacco tactics, peoples’ food, goat meat, grocery market, agribusiness trembles

• Fat cows: “bovine type two diabetes” becoming a problem for obese dairy cows more from Farmers’ Weekly 2009/04/03
• Is the food industry using the marketing strategies of 1950s tobacco industry? eg emphasizing physical activity over diet more from Food Navigator # 2009/04/03
• Food & class: time to “Re-think the whole thing. Make it work for people [..not..] corporate retailers and agri-business?” more from Local Foods Research Project # 2009/04/03
• How I Learned to Love Goat Meat ["most widely consumed meat in the world" & low fat/high protein] – NYTimes (via @katieparla) # 2009/04/02
• Latest UK grocery market % shares: all multiples 93.1 (Tesco 30.4, ASDA 17.5, Sainsbury 16.1), Co-op 4.4, independents 2.5 more from TNS # 2009/04/02
• Chemical leak: conventional US agribusiness shudders at thought of the Obamas’ White House veg garden being organic more from La Vida Locavore # 2009/04/02

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