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• Guinness faced with protesting farmers

  Filed under: Beer , Farming , Business Farmers everywhere are being squeezed by high production costs and low prices for their products. Even malting barley farmers in Ireland are being hit, but they're trying to do something about it. The Irish farmers, Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Friday, August 15, 2008 10:02 PM from Slashfood | 0 Comments Filed under: Beer, Business, Farming, farmers, Guinness, MaltingBarley, protests, malting barley

• Authenticity for olive oil

  Filed under: Farming , Business , Italy Europeans are crazy about labeling where a product is from. In some cases, wine for instance, it is more common for the product to be named after its originating region than it is to be named after what's actually Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Tuesday, January 22, 2008 3:05 AM from Slashfood | 0 Comments Filed under: Italy, Business, Farming, labeling, farmers, olives, olive-oil, unions

• Starbucks pays more for coffee than other retailers

  Filed under: Coffee , Farming , Business , Coffee shops , Fairtrade Starbucks, contrary to popular belief, does not pays less for their coffee than other coffee buyers, using their size to bully their suppliers into meeting extremely low prices (like Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Friday, January 19, 2007 7:03 AM from Slashfood | 0 Comments Filed under: Business, Farming, Coffee, coffee beans, beans, Starbucks, Coffee shops, fair trade, growers, coffee plantations, farmers, coffe, Fairtrade, fair prices