carino99 | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 08 2009 | food, economy, pope, religion
Pope Benedict XVI called Tuesday for a new world financial order guided by ethics and the search for the common good, denouncing the profit-at-all-cost mentality blamed for bringing about the global financial meltdown. "There is urgent need [for] a true world political authority" that can manage the global economy, guarantee the environment is protected, ensure world peace and bring about food security for the poor, he wrote. - NPR.org
carino99 | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 05 2009 | britain, food, europe
The European Union rescinded a two-decade-old regulation in an attempt to end what it calls unnecessary marketing standards. "Bureaucrats are telling us what's a perfect peach, and I think that a perfect peach is actually a very elusive thing, and it doesn't always have to do with how it looks at all," food columnist Diane Henry says. The rules against misshapen produce are followed more stringently in some EU member states than in others. "I have to say that the problem in Britain with this is that we seem to me to be quite law-abiding," she says. "I go to France and I go to Portugal, and they don't care what shape their tomatoes are, and they don't care what shape their cucumbers are. They seem to think, 'Well, it's just laws and we'll break them.' That's quite the Mediterranean spirit in a way, but in Britain we tend to slavishly follow [the rules]." - NPR.org
carino99 | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 06 2009 | news, food, business
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