GENEVA - A U.N. human rights envoy Tuesday questioned the safety of genetically modified (GM) food and said big corporations had more to gain from its use than poor countries fighting starvation, Reuters reports.
Larry Johnston's re-energized management team is abandoning weak markets, hacking costs, and working a plan to be the nation's top food and drug retailer.
NEW YORK - Target Corp. and Starbucks Corp. have supposedly reached an agreement to put a Starbucks coffee shop in all new Target stores beginning in fall 2003, according to Dow Jones Newswires reports.
WASHINGTON - The Food Marketing Institute and the American Meat Institute separately released statements opposing new country-of-origin guidelines released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
SAN FRANCISCO - West Coast ports were scheduled to reopen Wednesday after President Bush stepped in to stop a management lockout that cost the U.S. economy, including food companies, billions of dollars.
