NEW PRODUCT: Fair Trade Chocolate Bars from Shaman Chocolates

Dark Chocolate with Coconut Bar. People who make a point of eating Fair Trade chocolate should take a look at the line of Fair Trade chocolate bars from Shaman Chocolates, including two new organic Fair Trade bars. As a second humanitarian bonus, sales help support the maintaining of the pre-Columbian traditions of the Huichol Indians,…
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CONTEST: Create The Next Ben & Jerry’s Fair Trade Flavor

Socially responsible ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s has just launched its latest flavor, Chocolate Macadamia, a “Fair Trade flavor” made of Fair Trade™ Certified cocoa, vanilla, macadamia nuts and sugar. You might create the next Fair Trade flavor, by entering their “Do the World A Flavor Contest” using the fun, interactive “Flavor Generator” on…
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CONTEST: Your Favorite Restaurant Could Win You A Trip To NYC

If your favorite barbecue restaurant beats all—and you can write it up in a way that will get judges and viewers to vote for it—you could win a trip to New York City and dinner at a famous restaurant (not stated, but we’ll guess it’s Danny Meyer’s Blue Smoke). If you already live in New…
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CONTEST: Kraft American Cheese Singles

To celebrate National Grilled Cheese Month, April, KRAFT is giving away 2,000 packs of Kraft Singles. Visit Iheartgrilledcheese.com, and tell Kraft why grilled cheese makes you smile. Five hundred respondents will be selected at random each week to win. We get a bigger smile out of our gourmet grilled cheese recipes. They don’t use Kraft…
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TRENDS: American Drinking Habits

We’re drinking less regular soda but more diet soda, bottled water and sports drinks. Some 68% of Americans drank regular soda in 2008, down from 76% in 2003, according to market research firm Mintel. The number of diet soda drinkers rose, with 7.8 million more adults reported drinking diet soda. The greatest changes in Americans’…
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