In the News: Pinkberry Settles; Japan's Butter Shortage
- Fro-yo chain Pinkberry has agreed to settle and pay up $750,000 after being sued last year for bogus health claims and misrepresenting its product as frozen yogurt despite not meeting the legal definition. [NY Times]
- Japan is a market pioneer again: the first industrialized nation with no butter [Times Online]
- As other staples soar, potatoes break new ground [Reuters]
- The new biofuel rule will factor in to driving food prices higher, says Oxfam. [Bloomberg]
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re. Japan's butter shortage: Blue Lotus recently posted on making her own from cream! http://blue_moon.typepad.com/blue_lotus/2008/04/butter.html
onedaylingers at 9:57AM on 04/16/08