Alexia Foods premium brands align with ConAgra Foods strategy of optimizing its portfolio and delivering innovative products that support sustainable, profitable growth. Established in 2002 by founder and chef Alex Dzieduszycki, the Alexia brand generates approximately $35 million in annual sales of products which are available at natural, gourmet, club, and grocery stores including: Whole Foods, Sam s Club, Costco, Super Target, Wal-Mart, Kroger, Safeway, Publix and other large retailers...

The institution has changed with the times and has become a major player in the efforts to train the Cedar Valley's work force. In addition to a comprehensive arts and science program, Hawkeye provides training in several career areas including: Health care, industry and manufacturing, power technologies, computer and software technologies, business and management, engineering technologies, police and emergency response, agriculture and natural resources, arts and communication. On...

In addition to his dog colony, Fahey supervised a number of other nutrition laboratories in the universitys department of animal sciences, and for the most part his workaday hardware consisted of the various contrivances necessary to measure how much food a pet might or might not digest. The plastic tubing was inserted in the ileum the exact spot where food absorption ends and fermentation by the microflora and bacteria of the lower bowel begins. In addition to his dog colony, Fahey...

Emu farming takes off in India Press Trust of India Sunday, September 9, 2007 (Ahmedabad): Far from its native habitat in Australia, the flightless emu is leaving its footprint across the plains of India, with an increasing number of farmers commercially rearing the ostrich-size bird. Emu farming takes off in India Press Trust of India Sunday, September 9, 2007 (Ahmedabad): Far from its native habitat in Australia, the flightless emu is leaving its footprint across the plains of India,...

Raj Patel's definitive account of the world food system ranges across GM crops, fair trade, rising levels of obesity, unsafe food, supermarket rip-offs - and making another food world possible. The product of a brilliant mind, and a gift to the world hungering for justice. Scoop: Raj Patel - 'Stuffed and Starved' About Subscribe Advertise Submit News Media Tracking Feedback Login Culture. Raj Patel - 'Stuffed and Starved' Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System'...