Food & Health – Week of 4.21.13

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Julie Haviv State-owned Bank of China Ltd has opened trading in the yuan currency to U.S. customers, according to a posting

By Dean Baker “Free trade” is a sacred mantra in Washington. If anything is labeled as being “free trade”, then everyone in the Washington establishment

By Ari LeVaux Big Ag is at fault for the nation’s food-borne illness outbreaks — but a raft of pending food safety legislation unfairly penalizes

By Fred Meier Ford announced today that it would offer a lump-sum payment to its 90,000 salaried retirees as well as U.S. salaried former employees