And orders for non-durable goods, such as processed food and clothing, also rose - by 0.8%.
Jersey could challenge processed food manufacturers that do not meet certain standards under planned new legislation.
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We do need to monitor the lobbying power of processed food and drink companies.
This means avoid processed food, and keep to a natural diet, like fresh fruit, vegetables, nuts, fish.
"Many Muslims are not buying processed food now because they are concerned there might be contamination, " he said.
India has an obesity epidemic in cities, as people eat more processed food and adopt more sedentary lifestyles.
As for processed food, there is a deep distrust of it here and cooking remains a long and tiresome undertaking.
The latest scandal surrounding horsemeat in processed food could be "disastrous" for the meat processing industry, retail analysts are warning.
Travelers should think twice before choosing non-perishable snacks every airline offers beef jerky to avoid too much processed food, Mr. Allen suggests.
Processed food like ramen noodles and gummy bears are bad for you.
No other processed food provider so proudly displays - IN THE WINDOW - such an unattractive object from which your lunch is sliced.
The Real supermarket chain said it had withdrawn TiP frozen lasagne - the latest tainted processed food to figure in a Europe-wide scandal.
But without it, there will be no burgeoning of the job-creating factories that India needs, making clothes, handicrafts, shoes, processed food and so on.
It takes time, effort, and a conscious commitment to be counter-cultural but it is possible to conquer a dependence on processed food and massive quantities.
Such compromises are quietly embedded into much of our processed food.
If there is anybody who can alleviate the cost-of-food crisis at this time, it would be not the ethanol industry but the processed food producers themselves.
Val Cameron, the head of Jersey's Health Protection Service, said the island could challenge processed food manufacturers that do not meet certain standards under planned new legislation.
It is also past time for us to hold accountable those processed food companies who propagated this narrative to conceal their own contribution to the world's food problems.
Processed food and agriculture constitute trillion dollar markets, governments are encouraging healthier eating through guidelines and regulations and Americans are more focused than ever on what they feed their kids.
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Its invocation would provide crusading NGOs, bloggers and activist journalists with an unchecked justification for rejecting almost any processed food, especially those made using genetic modification or where trace chemicals can be found in food packaging.
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No matter that Japanese housewives paid up to eight times the American price for rice, five times the American price for beef, fruit and processed food, and three to four times as much for travel, clothing and telephone calls.
Food made with these techniques dominate our diets: Most of the corn, soy and canola grown in the U.S. is genetically engineered with molecular techniques, and more than 80% of the processed food in our supermarkets contain ingredients from genetically engineered crops.
It may be that the eating millions will one day take an informed interest in what goes into the stomach, carefully assessing the components of processed food, which conscientious manufacturers will list in print big enough to be read without a magnifying glass.
For example, consider the potential impact of tainting processed food by infiltrating the manufacturing process via computers.71 Whether the Chinese would take such action without fear or in spite of potential American retaliation and escalation will be the subject of analysis in the following section.
As the subjects ranged from processed food trends, to the debate between food trucks and restaurants, and mixology trends at hotel bars, there was one underlying theme: The inability to protect the French brand and educate the world on their contribution to food and hospitality.
Processed food products a business segment with traditionally low margins that often leads producers to hunt for the cheapest suppliers often contain ingredients from multiple suppliers in different countries, who themselves at times subcontract production to others, making it hard to monitor every link in the production chain.
He meant that the less processed our food, the better it is for us.
Last month CADE threatened to undo the 2009 merger that formed Brasil Foods, the leading firm in Brazil's processed-food market.
The Court also rejected an argument advanced by the Center for Food Safety that planting is the natural consequence of seeds, even though they are sold by a grain elevator with the intention of being processed into food or other products.
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