Kettle Chips’ Cancer Conundrum
Frito-Lay and two other potato chip companies have agreed to reduce the levels of a cancer-causing chemical in their products … Acrylamide is produced when potatoes and other starchy foods are cooked at high...
Acrylamide / asparaginase / business / Business As Usual / cancer / Cape Cod Chips / carcinogens / crisps / food / Frito-Lay / Heinz / Kettle Chips / Maillard Reaction / potato chips / Pringles / Procter & Gamble / regulation
by mike · Published 2008-08-03
Frito-Lay and two other potato chip companies have agreed to reduce the levels of a cancer-causing chemical in their products … Acrylamide is produced when potatoes and other starchy foods are cooked at high...
A 2004 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) study found that 61% of American corporations, including 39% of large companies, paid no corporate income taxes between 1996 and 2000. Last year, corporations shouldered just 14.4%...
business / corporate welfare / economics / laissez-faire / Sam Walton / Walmart
by mike · Published 2008-03-25
Sam “Walmart” Walton practiced corporate socialism. As much as he could, he put the public’s money to work for his benefit. Free land, long-term leases at below-market rates, pocketing sales taxes, even getting workers...
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