Hain Celestial gets 5-year $400M credit facility

July 7, 2010 by Content Keyword RSS 2  
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The Hain Celestial Group Inc. has obtained a five-year, unsecured $400 million credit facility, which will be used to expand the natural and organic food producer's business.

The Homestead Revolution – Happy Slaves

June 11, 2009 by Content Keyword RSS 2  
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By Ed HowesHappy SlavesThe lowly earthworm, slaughtered by the trillions or zillions by chemical, corporate, money lover agriculture, is worth many times the pennies it costs to buy your starter stock, if they are not readily available for free. The profitable organic food producer raises them in controlled conditions to increase their rates of reproduction, foil predators and to prevent their escape. Worms are the cheapest labor you can get for your food crops. They work night and day tilling s

Film aims to expose dangers in U.S. food industry

June 10, 2009 by Content Keyword RSS 2  
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Christine Kearney, Reuters 9 Jun 09; NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bigger-breasted chickens fattened artificially. New strains of deadly E. coli bacteria. A food supply controlled by a handful of corporations. The documentary "Food, Inc." opens in the United States on Friday and portrays these purported dangers and changes in the U.S. food industry, asserting harmful effects on public health, the environment, and worker and animal rights. Big corporations such as biotech food producer Monsanto Co.,