Category: Food Industry

Vanilla Crisis To Push Ice Cream Prices Up By 10 Percent

Ice cream prices could go up by as much as 10 percent around the world this year, said a report by the Telegraph on Monday, after two of the world’s largest producers of the vanilla spice reported much lower than expected harvests in the last two months.

Sugar is “Toxic” And Must Be Taxed Like Alcohol & Tobacco, Says US Scientists

Consuming too much sugar is just as harmful and addictive to you as smoking a cigarette or drinking alcohol, claimed researchers from the University of California-San Francisco (USCF) in an editorial published in Nature on Wednesday.

US Lawmaker Wants To Ban Human Foetuses In Food

An Oklahoma state senator has proposed a bill that would ban the use of human foetuses in food, reported the Associated Press on Wednesday, claiming that his own online research had led him to believe that such a ban was necessary.

On Tuesday, Republican State Senator Ralph Shortey introduced Senate Bill 1418 to the Oklahoma State Legislature, calling for the prohibition of “the sale or manufacture of food or products which contain aborted human foetuses.”