While some breweries have already raised prices, many others will follow later this year, brewers say. Unless, that is, it drives up the price of his beer. And that is exactly what is happening to Erdmann and other German brewers as farmers abandon barley -- the raw material for the national beverage -- to plant other, subsidized crops for sale as environmentally friendly biofuels. For Germany's beer drinkers that is scary news: Their beloved beverage -- often dubbed 'liquid bread' because...

Food will only be able to carry an organic logo if 95% of the ingredients are organic, and non-organic products will only be entitled to indicate organic ingredients on the ingredient list. European Union ministers have reached agreement on a new regulation on organic production and labelling, which should be simpler for both farmers and consumers. The new rules will lay down more explicitly the objectives, principles and production rules for organic production and include a new permanent...

Consumers may have to pay more for organic food to ensure it is completely free of genetically modified material, campaigners have said. Cost of organic food 'could rise' The UK's organic organisations have promised to maintain their higher standard of 0. The warning comes after EU ministers agreed that food accidentally contaminated with up to 0. This in turn would push up prices - but campaigners say keeping the 0. They will demand stronger safeguards for organic farms against...

Duha: Retail chains import most organic foods By Prague Daily Monitor/ TK / Published 25 June 2007 Prague, June 22 (CTK) - Retail chains in the Czech Republic are extending their selection of organic foods but a major part of the products are imported from abroad, according to a survey by the environmental group Hnuti Duha. Duha: Retail chains import most organic foods By Prague Daily Monitor/ TK / Published 25 June 2007 Prague, June 22 (CTK) - Retail chains in the Czech Republic are...

GM labelling 'may push up organic food prices' This will make it increasingly difficult for food producers to track down pure organic supplies, pushing up their costs, which they will be forced to pass on to consumers. EU agriculture ministers last week agreed that food accidentally contaminated with up to 0.9 per cent genetically modified content could be labelled "GM free" The price of organic food could increase because of new rules about GM labelling, campaigners warn today. Richard...

David Cheesewright, chief financial officer for supermarket chain ASDA, said his company now stocks about 1,000 organic lines compared with 325 around 18 months ago. Organic advocacy groups such as the Soil Association have expressed concern about transporting organic foods over long distances, citing potential harm to the environment. LONDON (Reuters) - Sales of organic food are rising strongly in Britain despite a downturn in overall consumer spending, with locally produced supplies...

David Cheesewright, chief financial officer for supermarket chain ASDA, said his company now stocks about 1,000 organic lines compared with 325 around 18 months ago. Organic advocacy groups such as Britain's Soil Association have expressed concern about transporting organic foods over long distances, citing potential harm to the environment. Reuters Sales of organic food are rising strongly in Britain despite a downturn in overall consumer spending, with locally produced supplies...

Locally grown organic food is picked at the peak of its freshness, without the use of bioengineering, wax wrapping and radiation, said Maryann Donovan, scientific director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. However, food purchased from a farmers' market has the same chance of contamination as food bought from the local grocer. Still, there are differences between the produce a consumer buys at a farmers' market versus the food...

By the way no one is suggesting that these companies can t sell junk food. With Kellogg already having given in after several years of activists battling the food industry over the wide-spread use of licensed cartoon characters such as SpongeBob to sell junk food to kids, the others will start to fall like dominos. After Kellogg announced as part of a lawsuit settlement that it would drastically cut its advertising of food with poor nutritional profiles to kids under age 12, a Democratic...