In 2006, CSPI dropped a lawsuit it had filed against KFC after that company announced a switch away from partially hydrogenated oil to heart-healthy soybean oil for deep-frying, and also negotiated an agreement with Procter & Gamble to more clearly label the artificial fat substitute olestra on Pringles Light Fat Free potato crisps. Oatmeal is a healthy food, but that s no excuse to give people the impression that it will miraculously remove cholesterol from your arteries or to otherwise...

Yet, away from the headlines, one of the industry's legendary pioneers is quietly sinking toward crisis as half of his clients have lost money over the long haul. He's been speculating on the Street with billions since the early 1980s -- when most of today's big shots were still in junior high, and an "alternative investment firm" was one that allowed chinos on Fridays. He also helped pioneer the infamous "two and twenty" fee schedule now used by every hedge fund boss worldwide, where they...

Money talks folks! The huge sub-Amazonian Cargill soybean plant in north-central Brazil, which was closed in March for environmental reasons, has suddenly reopened and is shipping beans like there's no tomorrow. Each year, literally thousands of square miles of once pristine Brazilian rain forest are slashed in order to produce more soybeans, beef and timber for export to a demanding world. Since the Amazon produces at least half of its own precipitation through the moisture it releases...

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The products include wheat gluten, rice gluten, rice protein, rice protein concentrate, corn gluten, corn gluten meal, corn byproducts, soy protein, soy gluten proteins and mung bean protein. Last week, as part of its investigation into the nationwide pet food recall, the FDA ordered that all vegetable protein imports from China used in human and animal food be detained. The announcement came after an investigation of chicken farms in Indiana found that 38 of the facilities had given...