Food and Agriculture

• EU court turns up its nose at Finnish 'cognac'
  AP (July 14, 2011)
  LUXEMBOURG (AP) - You can't make cognac in Finland. No how, no way.
   
  
• Yum Brands bracing for another US profit decline
  AP (July 14, 2011)
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Fast-food restaurant operator Yum Brands Inc. says its U.S. business remains in the doldrums as its Taco Bell brand tries to recover from publicity surrounding a dropped lawsuit over the beef content of its taco filling.
   
  
• Companies propose curbing junk food ads for kids
  AP (July 14, 2011)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's largest food companies say they will cut back on marketing unhealthy foods to children, proposing their own set of advertising standards after rejecting similar guidelines proposed by the federal government.
   
  
• UN calls for greener food production to feed world
  AP (July 05, 2011)
  GENEVA (AP) - The United Nations says world food production must increase by up to 100 percent by 2050 and focus on greener methods to sustain an expected 9 billion population.
   
  
• Stores find success by focusing on the hunt
  AP (July 05, 2011)
  (AP) - Trader Joe's, the specialty grocery chain, might not have the cheapest toilet paper or the most varieties of ketchup, but it hooks customers with mango butter, chocolate-covered pomegranate seeds and cilantro-and-jalapeno hummus.
   
  
• Bahamas government bans commercial shark fishing
  AP (July 05, 2011)
  NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) - The Bahamas has banned commercial fishing of sharks, awarding protection to the more than 40 species circling the island chain that touts itself as the shark diving capital of the world.
   
  
• Seeds blamed for Europe E. coli still on sale
  AP (July 05, 2011)
  LONDON (AP) - Egyptian sprout seeds blamed for a massive and deadly E. coli outbreak are still on the market and were shipped to more European countries than was previously believed, officials said Tuesday, as the EU announced a ban on further imports.
   
  
• Foster's rejects $10 billion cash takeover bid
  AP (June 21, 2011)
  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Australia's biggest brewer Foster's Group Ltd. said Tuesday it has rejected a $10 billion cash takeover offer from beer-maker SABMiller PLC as too low.
   
  
• Ky. distilleries rapidly expand amid bourbon boom
  AP (June 21, 2011)
  LAWRENCEBURG, Ky. (AP) - At the new Wild Turkey bourbon distillery in central Kentucky, the grainy smell of fermenting corn wafts from giant tubs as workers add a touch of grain or tweak the temperature, just as they had for decades at the now-mothballed plant nearby.