I like these quotes from our very own Phil Walotsky on this week’s issue of Food Business News: "Healthy snacking is very hot," said Phil Walotsky, spokesperson for KIND Fruit + Nut bars, PeaceWorks Holdings, New York. "Where we see a great deal of our growth is adoption by casual consumers who look for a [...]
Over the last few weeks, the High Fructose Corn Syrup Lobby has begun a spin campaign to try to confuse consumers into thinking that HFCS is no different from other natural sugars, but studies including one from the University of Texas last week (and one from University of Florida three years ago) have confirmed that [...]
Consumers are increasingly demanding that manufacturers replace high fructose corn syrup with natural alternatives, such as cane sugar, agave syrup, or as in the case with KIND, honey and glucose. Research has confirmed that High Fructose Corn Syrup is more fattening than other sugars like sucrose and glucose. And high fructose corn syrup is cheap [...]
Khaled Diab wrote a nice article about OneVoice‘s Imagine 2018 project, asking Palestinian and Israeli kids to visualize what their lives will look like in 10 years IF a peace agreement is achieved between Israel and Palestine. Imagine if the kids took over, The Guardian The future would look very different if we put the [...]
I heard Ron Pundak (the CEO of the Peres Center) most recently attended a meeting of a coalition of NGOs working for peace, and he was struggling because he is fighting a particularly noxious type of cancer, currently going through treatment. I have always secretly and quietly admired Ron, and have always felt we need [...]
A study from Cornell University demonstrates a correlation between junk/unhealthful food and energy costs. Artificial stuff, junk food and red meat all require more energy and natural resources to produce than fruits, nuts, veggies, etc. So by eating real foods, you are not just helping your health – you are also helping reduce greenhouse emissions. [...]
Interesting cultural observation: in the US, people take one cent or one dollar off to create a perception of value: an iTunes song costs $0.99, not $1.00; a KIND Bar retails for $1.99, not $2; a jacket is on sale for $199 instead of $200. In Great Britain, that "discounted" valuation is a sign of [...]
Pom Wonderful did something, err, wonderful for the food industry by fighting to uphold the standards of the category in which it leads, pomegranate juice, to the point of successfully suing unscrupulous new entrants who tried to ride on its coattails by marketing lower grade products as if they were the real thing: "Consumers buy [...]
Some will criticize this as Shimon Peres’s much-discounted "New Middle East" vision, but I love it, and I am confident that if Israelis and Palestinians get their act together and accept the historical compromises necessary to a comprehensive permanent agreement, this will only be the beginning. Check out this vision for the future of the [...]
James Montague from The Guardian newspaper just posted an article about Eytan Heller’s vision for Israel and Palestine to co-host the World Soccer Cup in 2018, an idea which so far has already spawned OneVoice’s Imagine 2018 Campaign. The beautiful game’s bid to heal the oldest wounds Tentative plans are being mooted for a joint [...]