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A brief history of cheese (a slideshow)
Christmas is the season for gluttony; meat, wine, cheese and cake galore. However, a Welsh dairy has decided to combine two of those food groups to create a cheese that tastes like traditional Christmas cake.
From Next Generation Food
On the 16 December in London, passers-by will be fed with food that has been made with produce which would normally have been thrown away.
Up to 5000 passers-by in central London are to be served hot soups made from “ugly” vegetables, sandwiches and fruit smoothies in a free feast of “Biblical proportions.”
The lunchtime banquet in Trafalgar Square next month, ‘Feeding the 5000’, will be made of food that would otherwise be thrown away and is being held to highlight the social and environmental costs of food waste, the British paper The Independent reports.
A new report has shown that a record high of 15 percent of Americans are having trouble putting food on the table. This number shot up to 17 million households the government reported.
Kraft’s attempted takeover of Cadbury has been one of the most high profile attempts in business for a while, drawing speculation and rumours from those wanting to know if the deal is going to go ahead.
An infographic comparing the companies.
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Home Office figures have revealed that in 2008, Scotland carried out 555,567 experiments on 544,949 individual animals, which is an increase of 42 percent since 2007. This graphic shows the total figures across the UK for Animal Experiments by species.
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An investigation in the US has found that breakfast cereals which are marketed at children contain more sugar per serving than a jam doughnut does. View full article
A new study in the US has compiled a list of the ten “riskiest” foods. Next Generation Food EU online takes a look at these in detail. View full article
2008 saw 6.3 million metric tons of food being distributed to 82 countries worldwide. There are three types of world food aid that are distributed. These are ‘Emergency Food Aid’, ‘Project Food Aid’, and ‘Programme Food Aid’. Taken from Food Industry News Publication - Next Generation Food.
