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Colombia is taxing ultra-processed foods!

Food Politics

This is a tax on ultra-processed foods! The post Colombia is taxing ultra-processed foods! The new tax was included in a wider reform that passed into law in December, 2022, seeking to reduce the burden of obesity and other diseases on Colombia’s health system, while also bringing in revenue in a country that manages a fiscal deficit.

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NDP ag minister plans to keep focus on protein processing in Manitoba

Real Agriculture

Manitoba’s NDP agriculture minister says he wants to maintain a focus on value-added protein production and processing in the province, continuing with one of the flagship initiatives of the previous Progressive Conservative government.

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ADM, Marathon Petroleum celebrate opening of North Dakota’s first dedicated soybean processing facility

Real Agriculture

held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on November 14 to celebrate the opening of their joint venture soybean processing facility at Spiritwood, North Dakota. Green Bison Soy Processing is the state’s first soybean-specific processing complex, and a major step towards meeting increased demand for renewable diesel, the companies say.

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Ontario commits $10 million to expand livestock processing capacity

Real Agriculture

The $10 million program will provide funding to eligible free-standing meat plants and abattoirs to make short-term investments in meat handling and processing equipment, technologies, and practices that. Read More

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The pushback on ultra-processed: a study (of sorts)

Food Politics

Lots of people are uncomfortable about the concept of ultra-processed foods, the category of processed foods made mainly of industrially extracted ingredients, containing little or no recognizable food, and able to reproduced in home kitchens only if you have the ingredeients and the equipment.

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The Digestion Process in Ruminant Animals

Agric4profits

In this article, we will be discussing about the digestion process in the ruminant animals. The ruminants have a digestive system that is quite different fr

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Ultra-processed pushback #4: a debate

Food Politics

The British journal, Public Health Nutrition, published a debate about ultra-processed foods this month. Ultra-processed foods in public health nutrition: the unanswered questions , Several definitions of the degree of processing have been proposed. Invited commentaries CON: Michael Gibney. PRO: Mark Lawrence.