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...USDA inspectors were also present at Hallmark/Westland, and the cruelty occurred on their watch. The Hallmark/Westland plant had already been cited on several occasions in 2005 for humane handling violations—the same year that the Westland Meat Company was awarded the “Supplier of the Year Award” for the national school lunch program...
...pork and beef products sold at the U.K.-based, worldwide megamarket TESCO, for example, have been logged by IdentiGEN and stamped with the IdentiGEN DNA TraceBack seal of approval, as are 75% of beef and pork products sold in Ireland - the seal proves that the meat originated where the supplier says...
...Ukraine's anti-Moscow ruling coalition between Yushchenko and Premier Yuliya Tymoshenko. The two politicians who have waged a four-year struggle for leadership of the coalition take different positions on the gas issue: Tymoshenko demands that Ukraine raise transit prices for Russian gas and dump Rosukrenergo as a supplier. The latter campaign received a vigorous boost, late last month, when alleged crime boss Semyen Mogilevich, wanted by the U.S. on fraud and extortion charges, and long suspected of owning Rosukrenergo, was arrested in Moscow. Tymoshenko insists that Mogilevich stands behind the Rosukrenergo/Gazprom arrangement, although he and his lawyers vigorously...
...Sanders was losing the global fast-food war to the Golden Arches. PepsiCo had spread its restaurant division too thin, planting capital-consuming, company-owned-and-operated stores in 32 countries instead of franchising them as it does in the U.S. But PepsiCo did set up valuable infrastructure, including supplier relationships and local management teams. "PepsiCo laid down the tracks but hadn't yet taken advantage of the opportunity," says Novak. In swift order, the newly independent Yum (named Tricon Global Restaurants until 2002) pulled its company-run operations out of all but eight countries. Later it focused expansion...
...That is one reason why recent marches have come nowhere near the turnout of 2003's July 1 protest, when half a million demonstrators forced Beijing-backed legislators to scrap controversial anti-subversion legislation. Kathline Cheng, a 52-year-old employee of TMP, a greeting card supplier, stood amid the crowds Sunday and recalled even larger demonstrations, beginning with the one million marchers she joined in May 1989 to show support for the student protesters in Tiananmen Square. "When the condition is critical, the people come out," her husband Andy says. "But today they'd rather go shopping...