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Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: the detectives untangling the global supply chain

Amid the complex web of international trade, proving the authenticity of a product can be near-impossible. But one company is taking the search to the atomic levelby …

Licence to krill: the destructive demand for a ‘better’ fish oil

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Seascape: the state of our oceansMarine life Licence to krill: the destructive demand for a ‘better’ fish oil Industrial fishing of the tiny crustacea in a dietary supplements gold rush is threatening the very base of the food chain This article was produced with the Environmental Reporting Collective, whose full report is part of the […]

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Why Do American Grocery Stores Still Have an Ethnic Aisle?

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Why Do American Grocery Stores Still Have an Ethnic Aisle?

This international hodgepodge strikes many shoppers and food purveyors as antiquated. But doing away with it isn’t as easy as it might sound.

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William Dodge on Nestle Slave Labor, Michael Ratner on Donald Rumsfeld

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    Child chocolate worker in the Ivory Coast (Fortune, 3/1/16) (photo: Benjamin Lowy) This week on CounterSpin: Nestle CEO Mark Schneider told investors in February that “2020 was a year of hardship for so many,” yet he was “inspired by the way it has brought all of us closer together.” And also by an […]

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