Tag: Food and Beverage

Salmon.

Aquaculture can supply much-needed American jobs, but not if the US doesn’t support an industry

Jesse Mitchell · August 12, 2020 4:00 am

In this Nov. 1, 2013 file photo, a volunteer at right helps a customer at the St. Ignatius Food Pantry in Chicago. According to a report released Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, by the Chicago-based Social IMPACT Research Center, the overall Illinois poverty rate is the same as it was a half century ago, despite scores of state and federal aid programs and a dramatic drop in the number of elderly considered poor. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

Where did all the poor people go?

Nathan Mayo · August 6, 2020 8:11 am

Maine residents pay 60 cents per gallon in wine taxes

The Center Square · August 3, 2020 1:00 pm

Trader Joe’s shows how to just say no to cancel culture

Washington Examiner · August 2, 2020 4:16 am

A McDonald's sign is displayed outside the fast food restaurant in Wheeling, Ill., Thursday, April 9, 2020. McDonald's executives took pay cuts as the coronavirus pandemic caused March sales to plunge.

McDonald’s to require customers wear face masks

Zach Halaschak · July 24, 2020 6:39 pm

A worker from a Servpro disaster recovery team wearing a protective suit and respirator peers out a window as he waits to exit the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash. for a break from cleaning the facility, Wednesday, March 11, 2020, near Seattle. The nursing home is at the center of the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Washington state.

Coronavirus prods companies to speed up automation plans, costing jobs

Jay Heflin · July 24, 2020 3:00 am

Bryce Green, 12, center, takes part in a Black Lives Matter protest march with his friend Danilo Petrovic, 13, right, and others Saturday, April 15, 2017, in Seattle. Several thousand people attended a downtown rally and then marched to the federal courthouse to call attention to minority rights and police brutality. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Whole Foods workers file lawsuit claiming grocery chain punished those who wore Black Lives Matter apparel

Mica Soellner · July 20, 2020 5:40 pm

FILE - In this May 31, 2012 file photo, a man leaves a 7-Eleven store with a Double Gulp drink, in New York. If New York City bans big sodas, what's next? Large slices of pizza? Double-scoop ice cream cones? Tubs of movie-theater popcorn? The 16-ounce strip steak? Opponents of the proposed ban may use that slippery-slope argument along with other legal strategies to try to block the first-in-the-nation rule. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Big, fat disappointment: Dietary guidelines are broken, and government again failed to fix them

Washington Examiner · July 20, 2020 4:00 am

UFC star backs Goya Foods and slams ‘woke’ mob after CEO’s support of Trump sparks boycott

Andrew Mark Miller · July 11, 2020 7:01 pm

Five Guys employees fired or suspended after refusing to serve Alabama police officers

Andrew Mark Miller · July 11, 2020 2:08 pm

This is the Starbucks sign outside a Starbucks coffee shop in downtown Pittsburgh on Wednesday, June 26, 2019.

Starbucks announces it will soon require masks at stores in every state

Zach Halaschak · July 9, 2020 9:31 pm

Beltway Confidential

Summer’s most divisive issue: Who made the potato salad?

J. Mark Powell · July 5, 2020 4:00 am