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High in protein, low in fat – it's chargrilled super guinea pig

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/10/24/wmmmmm24.xml

To most people they are lovable pets, but guinea pigs could soon be on the menu at British restaurants after the development of a “superpig” designed to offer diners a nutritious low-fat meal.

The new “Raza Peru” variety has been bred by scientists in Lima, who say that it contains more protein and less cholesterol than beef, pork, lamb or chicken.

The animal has already been sent for consumption in America, Spain and Japan, and exporters say they are ready to market it in Britain if there is sufficient demand.

Vegan, "cruelty-free" fashions .

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“Hopefully, we will change people’s minds about what a vegan looks like,” says Jeremy Crown, “owner of Otsu, a San Francisco store selling vegan accessories,” as reported by Ruth La Ferla in The New York Times. “A lot of people still assume we are granola hippies or that we are overtly political,” Jeremy adds. But Jeremy and others are tapping into a market for “cruelty-free” fashions that apparently is expanding beyond “the roughly six million Americans who call themselves vegetarians.” The attraction, at least in part, is that prices of animal-free goods “are often 60 percent to 75 percent lower.”

"The People's Republic of Starbucks

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Shanghai Surprise II. Back in the 1940s, it was known as the “Paris of the East,” but today some are calling Shanghai, “The People’s Republic of Starbucks,” reports Veronica Gould Stoddart in USA Today. Consider this: In “the room where Mao founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921,” is “now a yuppified entertainment complex of restored traditional houses called Xintiandi,” where “tourists, expats and moneyed Shanghainese, palming cellphones, pack its hot jazz clubs and cooler-than-cool eateries to dine on risotto of mud crab with black Chinese truffles.” Even more dramatic is the change in Shanghai’s skyline.

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Cholesterol-lowering beer

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https://www.foodnavigator.com/news/news-ng.asp?n=55869-cholesterol-lowering-beer
Cholesterol-lowering beer ready for scale-up

A new Swedish start-up has developed a brewing process that produces a beer with cholesterol-lowering properties.

The patented process uses oats rather than barley and through special enzyme technology results in a product rich in beta-glucans, fibres shown in research to have a beneficial effect on cholesterol levels.

The company, Aventure, says it is the first in a range of healthy beers, with further ideas in the pipeline.

Drinks pour on nutrition to appeal to parents

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https://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2004-10-24-kids-drinks_x.htm

The $90 billion beverage world is figuring out that parents will pay premiums for more nutritious drinks for their kids.

Every beverage maker seems to be leaping on board – from Pepsi to Snapple to Stonyfield Farm. But this isn’t about creating soft drinks with less sugar. It’s about drinks that could pass the parent test. It’s also about sales growth. And it’s about schools slamming the door on soft drinks. [Read more…] about Drinks pour on nutrition to appeal to parents

Organizations are like automobiles…..

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Organizations are like automobiles. They don’t run themselves, except downhill.
Leadership now, requires very different behavior from the leadership tradition we are used to. It requires leaders who speak to the collective imagination of their people, co-opting them to join in the business journey; leaders who are able to motivate people to full commitment and have them make that extra effort. It’s all about human behavior. It’s about understanding the way people and organizations behave, about creating relationships, about building commitment, and about adapting your behavior to lead in a creative and motivating way.

So, ask yourself what you’re doing about the leadership factor. How do you execute your own leadership style?

“Your business can have all the advantages in the world; strong financial resources, enviable market position, and state-of-the-art technology, but if leadership fails, all of these advantages melt away.” – Manfred Kets de Vries

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Functional foods seen as the wave of the future

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Study: Functional foods seen as the wave of the future
Low-carb diets may be popular right now in the U.K., but by 2009, other
functional-type diets, like those consisting of cholesterol-lowering or
“diabetes friendly” foods, will lead the pack, according to a new poll of
food industry executives. The report suggests companies will have the most
success by offering products to “consumers who are already increasingly
building the knowledge of which ingredients are linked to which concerns.”  
FoodNavigator (10/25

Think Different!

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Think Different!
By Martin Lindstrom

Some years ago, an Australian takeout pizza place used the Internet in an attempt to boost sales. Traffic was slow. Hardly anyone visited the site. The need for an increase in traffic was urgent.

If traditional online media planning had been used, banners and links would have been purchased and the URL added to the shop’s phone-book entry. It might even have invested in some traditional ads.

The pizza place went a different route. [Read more…] about Think Different!