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...sharply higher prices for meat and poultry, which surged 49% since mid-2006. Beijing maintains that the rise in food costs, which make up more than one-third of China's consumer price index, was largely the result of more expensive livestock feed and a one-off event: an outbreak of a porcine disease that killed 70,000 pigs and prompted the mid-September release of 30,000 tons of pork (about a quarter of the amount of pork China consumes in a day) from a national reserve to help stabilize prices...
KAMPUNG Doctors work to contain Congo's Ebola outbreak...
Unfortunately, in the last fifty years the U.S. has witnessed a value marketing arms race. Between 1977 and 1996, according to a study by UNC Chapel Hill, U.S. food portion sizes increased for all foods (except pizza) . At the same time, the U.S. has witnessed a nationwide outbreak of obesity...
...beef market is exploding," says Western Cattle president Jim Mueller. He's not exaggerating. Owing to soaring demand, China could face beef shortages as early as next year, says the Asian Agribusiness Research Center, a situation exacerbated by a dramatic decline in pork production brought on by an outbreak of blue-ear disease earlier this year. And for now, Mueller doesn't have to worry about competition from back home. Imports of beef from America - a top global supplier - have been banned in China since mad cow disease appeared in Washington State...
Recent opinion polls have allayed those concerns. Labour's standing has been boosted by Brown's competent handling of terror attacks in London and Glasgow and an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. The Prime Minister's stolidity, perceived only a few months ago as weakness, now reads like strength. "Not flash, just Gordon," runs Labour's latest slogan. In his convention speech - a doggedly uninspiring hour-long sermon bracketed by emotional ovations and punctuated by endearing verbal stumbles - Brown played up to his new image. "People say I am too serious and I fight too hard and maybe that...