by Paul Fassa Those idyllic (extremely happy) farm scenes depicted on most conventional dairy products, meat packaging, and egg cartons are far from the reality of how conventional meat comes to be. Unlike organic livestock conditions, factory farming...

The federal government is currently in the process of trying to get rid of tens of thousands of tons of radioactive scrap metal it has accumulated over the years from various nuclear testing and wartime activities. And...

When your country gets wealthier, you spend more of your money on things that aren’t food. So it’s not surprising that Chinese urban consumers now spend 14 percentage points less of their budget on food today than...

Retail sales climbed by just 0.1 percent in January.  While this number may seem week, it was right in line with expectations.  And it was seen as confirmation that the initial impact of the recent payroll tax...

From the just-released retail sales report. Check out the big year-over-year jump in people going out to eat. It’s way down at the bottom. The gain in December was 7.7%. People don’t go out to eat when...

Retailers are missing out on a key demographic and trillions of dollars by not catering more to Third World countries, according to Nobel Prize-winning diplomat Kofi Annan.  “People at the bottom control trillions of dollars,” Annan said...

Sven Jari Stehn and David Mericle of Goldman Sachs have a new note out that outlines how the firm will attempt to track the effects of higher taxes on consumption in real-time. Goldman expects that the tax...

According to an online survey of American consumers conducted by Accenture, “one-half of U.S. consumers are likely to make a small luxury purchase in the next six months.” The survey found that while Millennials were more inclined...

Anthony Gucciardi/NaturalSociety After setting sights on creating a heavily modified apple that ‘never browns’ and doing their very best to hide the fact that they are indeed genetically altered, a biotech corporation known as Okanagan Specialty Fruits is...