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From the studios of Kootenay Co-op Radio, this is Deconstructing Dinner.
"So we've seen the companies end up with more and more and more control over the food supply, and again that has resulted in increased cost at every turn for the Canadian farmers."
"This system is not defined by commercial agriculture and fisheries, but it is understood as a series of relationships which all of us have with the land, air, and water that nurture us."
Jon Steinman: And you're tuned in to Deconstructing Dinner, a weekly one-hour radio program and pod cast produced at Kootenay Co-op Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. This program is heard on radio stations across the country including CHMR in St.John's, Newfoundland. I'm Jon Steinman.
It was back in 2006 here on Deconstructing Dinner when we launched an ongoing series titled Packaged Foods Exposed. The series was designed to gain a better understanding of the very companies who produce many of the foods found on Canadian grocery store and convenience store shelves. But today is the launch of a new series, which, along the same line will take a look at the companies who dominate the Canadian food supply, but this series will introduce companies, that you may have never even heard about. And these are the agricultural corporations that supply not only the packaged food companies, but every restaurant, bakery, butcher, cafeteria, and well, almost all the food we eat.
And the title of this series is Agri-Business Exposed. Some of the largest and most influential companies consist of Archer Daniels Midland, Monsanto, ConAgra Foods, Dow, Dupont, Syngenta and Bayer. But perhaps the most influential agri-business in the world is Minneapolis, Minnesota's Cargill – a family-owned company that depending on the year, sits at either the largest or 2nd largest privately owned company in the world, making them accountable to no one outside of the company. Cargill provides an ideal starting point at which to launch the Agri-Business series here on Deconstructing Dinner, because chances are, if you eat, Cargill has somewhere along the line, handled your food, and a better understanding of this company, is ultimately a better understanding of our breakfast, lunch and dinner.
As Cargill retains such an incredible influence on the food that we eat, today's expose on the company will be the first of 2-parts, with the second part airing next week.
Lending their voice to today's show will be Brewster Kneen, the author of the book titled Invisible Giant, perhaps the most current and comprehensive resource ever compiled on the company. And we will hear from John Sauven, a Campaign Director for Greenpeace.
As we begin exploring one of the most influential company's controlling the global supply of food, it's interesting to first point out the age of this company, a company that most Canadians have probably never heard of. And it dates back to 1865, when William Cargill, a Scottish immigrant, bought a grain elevator in Conover, Iowa. Since then, the company remains in the Cargill family, and also remains as a private company, which means they are not accountable to any shareholders whatsoever. The family owns 90% of the company, with the remaining ten percent being owned by the employees. The current owners James and Margaret Cargill are, as indicated by the Forbes Magazine list of richest people in the world, worth 1.8 billion dollars.
In 2005, the company's revenues sat at 75.2 billion dollars, employing 149,000 people in 63 countries. And it's certainly surprising that such a company can remain as low profile as they do.
But maintaining a low profile is exactly what this company attempts to do. One of my guests on today's broadcast is Brewster Kneen and in his comprehensive book on the company titled, Invisible Giant, he referred to their Future Strategic Profile from 1979. And the profile listed nine strategic basic beliefs, one of which consisted of, "We will maintain a low public profile."
But also included in this list of nine strategic beliefs, were, both 1, "It is important to have market dominance," and number 2, "The world is our oyster." And we will be exploring these beliefs on both today's and next week's broadcast.
So before we begin hearing from my two guests on today's broadcast, we can launch the show by first taking a look at how this company achieves market dominance and can yet, maintain such a low profile.
And to do so, we can cue a little music, music that perhaps can remind us of the music playing at our local grocery store, that, from time to time, is then interrupted by loud announcements over the PA system. So you can think of me as the loud announcements as you enjoy this pseudo supermarket experience.
The company of course operates many food divisions around the world, with many of these products arriving here in Canada at either food manufacturers or restaurant kitchens. But in taking a look at the operations of Cargill within Canadian borders, we find that they are the primary producer of beef, chicken, malted barley used in beer, animal feed, canola oils, corn syrups, sucrose, nitrogen fertilizer, salt, egg products, flour and other baking ingredients. Essentially, the company only operates in sectors of the food system that have become staple ingredients of the Western diet. And it's this that illustrates how sophisticated of a company Cargill is.
We can start our Cargill supermarket experience in the meat section of the store. Perhaps the company's most dominant business is their over 50% control of Canadian beef. More about this sector will be discussed on next week's broadcast, which will feature an interview with Cam Ostercamp, a farmer from Blackie, Alberta. Cam is not far from High River Alberta – about 45 kilometers south of Calgary. And located there is the largest fully integrated beef processing facility in the country, processing 4,000 head of cattle every day.
Moving along to the next aisle but remaining in the meat department, we arrive in Toronto, as Cargill's Case Ready division, where they operate a meat packaging facility producing case-ready beef, pork, ground beef, poultry and sausage products. This is where many of the meats in the province's meat coolers and freezers are prepared before arriving at stores.
But down the road from Toronto is another Cargill company called Sun Valley Foods, and it's this company that supplies a substantial amount of chicken found throughout the Canadian food service industry. Located in Jarvis, Ontario is a plant producing 150,000 chicks per day. Those chicks end up at yet another Sun Valley plant in London, Ontario, which processes 80,000 chickens each day. A number that is perhaps unfathomable to think of, but chances are if you eat chicken, it's a Cargill chicken.
But what do these two staple meats of the Canadian diet require to grow and end up on our dinner plates, well, they need their own food, and Cargill is one of the leading providers of animal feed in the country through their Animal Nutrition and Agribrands division operating in Western Canada. And here we begin to see the control this company has right through the entire food chain, because what is the dominant ingredient in animal feed, but grain, and Cargill's AgHorizons grain division operates out of 45 facilities in Western Canada, 14 in Ontario and one in Quebec. But while the company controls the grain that ends up in the animal feed for their animals, the company also supplies farmers with crop production inputs such as fertilizer and this is achieved through Cargill's AgResource Division and their joint venture in the company Saskferco, which produces nitrogen fertilizers at a facility in Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan. But the connections don't stop there, as the company is even present in providing their fertilizer products with the necessary ingredients to produce that fertilizer. One of the company's divisions is Cargill Power and Gas Marketing, a natural gas trading company based in Calgary, Alberta. Mentioned on previous broadcasts of Deconstructing Dinner is the incredible amount of natural gas that is shipped out of Canada and into the US, and Cargill is the largest exporter of natural gas in this respect. This division of the company also markets and trades electricity, coal and other commodities.
But coming back to food and our Cargill supermarket tour, the company is one of the largest producers of canola oil, one of the most prevalent ingredients in processed and packaged foods. And here we now stand in almost every aisle of the supermarket. Cargill's Specialty Canola Oils division operates the largest oilseed processing plant of its kind in North America, and is located in Saskatchewan as well. As has become the most controversial topic surrounding the production of canola, is that much of the Canadian canola crop is now genetically modified or contaminated with genetically modified seed. Cargill has been one of the leading companies behind the introduction of genetically modified foods here in Canada. This controversial issue will be discussed in more depth during next week's continuation of this broadcast.
But moving along into the aisle containing baking ingredients, which happens to also be alongside the supermarket's bakery counter, we arrive at one of the most recent additions to the portfolio of Cargill companies, and that is the creation of Horizon Milling back in July 2006, which resulted from a partnership between Cargill and another American company. Horizon Milling was created through the acquisition of a division of the J.M Smucker Company, a division that produces such products as Robin Hood flour. The company also produces oats and baking mixes.
If you are just tuning in, this is Deconstructing Dinner and the first of an ongoing series called Agri-Business Exposed. This first broadcast is taking a closer look at perhaps the most influential agricultural corporation in the world, Cargill, a name rarely associated with the food of Canadians. If you're wondering about the music playing here in the background, it's there to evoke an image of browsing the aisles at your local supermarket, and in doing so help better connect the food we eat to this massive company filling our supermarket shelves.
But moving away from beef, chicken, grain, animal feed, natural gas, flour and baking ingredients, the company is one of the largest suppliers of sweetener in the world. And here we arrive at the aisle filled with soft drinks and candy. Cargill's Sweeteners division supplies corn syrups, sucrose and customized blends used in beverages, baked goods, candies, cereals and prepared foods. The company operates facilities in Toronto, Abbotsford, Calgary and Montreal. This division of the company also produces starches such as corn and tapioca starch. On next week's part II of this Cargill expose, we will explore the topic of corn syrup which is very rapidly replacing sugar in the North American diet, and more importantly, is doing so during a time when diabetes and obesity are both now seen as epidemics. We will take a critical look at the role Cargill has in fostering not only these health related concerns, but how they respond to them.
As the Cargill diet continues, we look across the aisle from the soft drinks and arrive at the shelves filled with chocolate products. Here we also find Cargill, as they are one of the world's leading suppliers of chocolate and cocoa products. Located in Burlington, Ontario is the Canadian division of Wilbur Chocolate, owned by Cargill. Cargill's role in purchasing cocoa from plantations that employ child slave labor will also be a topic for next week's part II of this broadcast.
But when taking a look at the list of ingredients on your food, you may notice a mention of eggs. In the processed food industry, there is certainly not a mass of employees cracking eggs into a bowl as we would do at home, and instead, food manufacturers rely on the egg processing industry, one in which sees eggs of typically lower-grades ending up in refrigerated and fully-cooked egg products. And yes, such processing would explain the often questionable consistency of McDonald's scrambled eggs. Cargill is one of the major companies in this industry through their partnership in the Toronto-based Egg Solutions, who is affiliated with the US-based Sunny Fresh Foods.
And that concludes the abbreviated Cargill supermarket tour. And the supermarket music was courtesy of the Toronto duo of French and Louis Samau.
But the list of foods that Cargill produces could continue on for the rest of this broadcast, but really, there are two key tools that can be used to learn more about this company. One is simply going to either the Cargill website at cargill.com or to the Deconstructing Dinner web site at cjly.net/deconstructingdinner. But the other tool, is a book called Invisible Giant: Cargill and its Transnational Strategies. The author of this book is Brewster Kneen, who's voice has previously been heard here on Deconstructing Dinner. Brewster publishes the popular newsletter called the Ram's Horn, and he was a Nova Scotia sheep farmer up until 1986. Following his time spent as a farmer, Brewster began researching this company, Cargill, hoping to compile a comprehensive resource on a company that everyone in the world really should know about. When I asked Brewster if there was anyone else other than him who I could speak with on the topic of Cargill, his response through an email he sent to me was this, "As to other folks Jon, that's a stumper. Cargill folks don't talk. And I don't know of anyone else who knows as much about the company and its strategies and evolution as I do – unfortunately". So it does seem as though I found the right guy to talk to. I spoke with Brewster over the phone from his home in Ottawa, Ontario, and I asked him how long had he been studying this company.
Brewster Kneen: Far too long John. When we quit farming in '86 and moved back to Toronto, I started working around the province on agricultural issues. I did a lot of speaking and that's when I started writing and getting published. It turned out that Cargill had been in Canada for many years, but around the late '80's, Cargill emerged in the retail sector of agriculture. That is, it bought up a bunch of feed mills and fertilizer plants, and really beginning the process of consolidation. All of a sudden Cargill was big on the scene in Ontario. I had done enough reading to know that this was no little family company from Ontario, but I was appalled by the ignorance of people in agriculture, whether it was co-op managers or farmers or commodity groups. They had no idea who Cargill was. People would say, "Oh it's a family company, isn't it?" And I would say, "Well yeah, of sorts." Or "Isn't Canadian?" And I would say, "Well yeah, it's a Canadian branch."
So I decided I should take a look and I originally just intended to do a 30-page monograph, but along the way I got interested in the question of… I was also looking at agricultural policy of Canada which over my 15 years of farming had puzzled me as I traveled around and looked at larger issues. In the process of looking at this issue, I said, "Agricultural policy doesn't make any sense. What would it look like if I put myself in Cargill's shoes?"
JS: We'll explore more about Cargill's role in Canadian agricultural policy a little later on the broadcast. But as this broadcast was researched, I did come across a quote by former US Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, who had very close ties with Cargill, and he said this, "If you are looking for a way to get people to lean on you and be dependent on you, in terms of their cooperation with you, it seems to me that food dependence would be terrific." I asked Brewster to comment on whether this applies to the model on which Cargill operates, and he compares the company with another major agricultural corporation, Monsanto, perhaps the most detested name in global agriculture.
BK: It's interesting to compare, for example, Cargill and Monsanto, because I think that Monsanto would fit that much more crudely in terms of very deliberate and in your face attack on any kind of autonomy among farmers, and saying that 'we are going to make you all dependent on our seeds one way or another.' Cargill is a crucial player right across the food system though and in recent years it has diversified and gone further down stream. It isn't just a grain trader, which was what it was known as in the days that Humphrey was talking about. It was the major grain trader. But Cargill has moved steadily away from that because commodity trade has got its limits in terms of profitability. Even if you trade all of the oats for all of the wheat, there is still a limit to it. But if you start trading going upstream in one sense to trading in futures and derivatives, and downstream into many products being created from deconstructed corn, you've got many more profit points. In one sense, one could say that Cargill is moving away from creating dependency, but also integrating itself into every aspect of the food system.
JS: While Brewster Kneen suggests that Cargill is not creating a system of dependence, their role in all levels of the food system has, in effect created a system where their products simply cannot be avoided. In his book Invisible Giant, Brewster indicates that Cargill serves customers and not the public, and this comment perhaps sums up how this company has strategically placed themselves into the diets of Canadians and the world.
BK: If you go to the website, you find that there's areas that you can't enter which are open to its customers. That is, food processors, food distributors, people in other sectors that Cargill is dealing with on a commercial basis. The result of that sort of approach is that Cargill doesn't appear as being omni-present as it actually is. For example, you buy most potato chips these days and an awful lot of them will say that one of the ingredients is sea salt. People tend to think, 'Oh sea salt, that's a natural sort of thing.' Where's it come from, it could be organic, is kind of the implication. But in fact, Cargill is one of the major salt producers globally and much of that sea salt is produced from seawater by Cargill. But you won't see that name anywhere because they sell through other companies. One can go down a list of orange juice, or you name it, the Cargill name won't appear on and it appears under other people's names.
JS: Cargill is in fact the worlds' largest marketer of salt products and as Canada ranks as the 5th largest salt producer in the world, Cargill's Salt division has offices in Ontario and Quebec.
To best understand the way in which Cargill operates within the Canadian food system, their role in the beef industry perhaps best illustrates their dominance over what Canadians eat. The company has only been in the beef industry in Canada since 1989, and as of today, controls 50% of all the beef in this country. Just prior to first airing this broadcast, Canada's food inspection agency announced the ninth confirmed case of BSE or Mad Cow Disease in an animal in Alberta, and while Canadians are quick to point the finger at government when such incidents occur, there are of course companies helping pull the strings, and Cargill is of course one of these companies. Their role in Canadian beef will be discussed in more depth on next week's broadcast when Cam Ostercamp, a farmer from Blackie, Alberta will lend his voice to the program. But to introduce this topic, Brewster Kneen speaks of the company's presence in this industry.
BK: Yeah, well they've been big in beef for a long time. It was one of the major packers in the US. They moved into Alberta, and at that point there was a number of other players on the scene, including Lakeside Packers. Meanwhile, Cargill moved, as it does, downstream and upstream in terms of feedlots and supplies to feedlots, maybe not necessarily owning them as much as being the feed supplier. So if you go in the area around Left Bridge, Alberta, which is the center of the beef industry, Cargill is a major feed supplier to the feedlot industry and to farmers raising cattle. On the other side, first they supplied out of the plant quarters of beef but that didn't last long and they started breaking it down. Gradually they expanded their ability to handle box beef, and then moving into retail cuts. In a lot of the stores you would go into today, you won't see Cargill's name but the meat in the package will in fact come out of a Cargill facility, maybe in Toronto. Now, interestingly maybe in Guelph through a plant called Better Beef which Cargill bought.
JS: Cargill's recent acquisition of Better Beef located in Guelph, Ontario, will also be discussed in more depth next week, but Brewster Kneen was just recently in Guelph attending the annual Guelph Organic Conference, and he had the opportunity to listen to some Guelph area residents and their comments on the Better Beef facility. And Brewster explains.
BK: It just so happens that last week we were down in that area and hearing some stories about the treatment of workers at Better Beef, which was horrible, absolutely horrible. Now maybe Cargill will clean up its act in that regard, or maybe on the inside of the plant the way it operates it is very different than the way it appears to the public. I would suggest to anybody if you are buying beef from any commercial outlet, ask if they know where it comes from? What conditions are in the plant that approved it? What the workers in the plant are getting paid and whether they are in fact legitimate workers, that is documented workers? Or are they as in some cases illegals from the standpoint of the Canadian government.
The turn over of the workers at a meat packing plant is incredible. I don't know how they can finance it or how they can train people. The answer is that they don't really; you are expendable when you go in to a packing line. You are working with very sharp knives at a very high rate of speed and the injuries are obviously cuts and so on, but also what that kind of work does to the human body. It just puzzles me how it can be commercially viable to have that kind of turnover. But it is also why almost all the meat-packing plants are using undocumented workers from Mexico or El Salvador or wherever they are coming from. And those are all questions one has to ask about an industry which is cutthroat and the same time profitable for certain players, particularly Cargill.
JS: And you're tuned in to Deconstructing Dinner, produced at Kootenay Co-op Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. If you miss any of today's broadcast or want to learn more about my guests and today's topic, you can check out the program's web site at cjly.net/deconstructingdinner, where there will also be a page set up to keep you updated on future broadcasts of this Agri-Business exposed series that explores the most powerful agricultural corporations in the world, with today's focus being the first of a 2-part expose on the Minnesota-based Cargill. We're currently listening to clips from my conversation with Brewster Kneen, author of the book, Invisible Giant.
The meat packing industry throughout North America is often scrutinized as one of the most dangerous and exploitative food industries. Migrant or immigrant workers have become a norm within the industry, as these workers are more likely to remain silent following either health-related or exploitative concerns.
In October 2005, Lakeside Packers of Brooks Alberta, a facility owned by the American company Tyson, saw their workers go on strike, and at that time, about 60 per cent of the employees were recent immigrants, many of them from Sudan.
At Cargill's High River, Alberta plant, workers there went on strike in 1997. A striking worker on the picket line was quoted as saying this, "The company doesn't care about us since we are cheap labor. They don't care. This is slavery kind of work. We are not robots or machines." About 80 percent of the workers at Cargill's plant are recent immigrants to Canada. They are mainly from the Middle East, China and Ethiopia.
And this is the beef that Canadians are eating. This is the industry that Canadians are most often, unknowingly supporting. But when attempting to comprehend how an American company can exist in this country with such influence, power, and ability to operate in the way that they do, I asked Brewster Kneen if Cargill's size allows them to act as almost a branch of the Canadian government. And in responding, Brewster compares Cargill to another large multinational Archer Daniels Midland, or ADM.
BK: It's interesting to look at Cargill against ADM. ADM has been a high profile lobbyist on its own behalf for many many years, to the point of being quite corrupt about it and getting away with it and sometimes getting caught. I think this is where I come back to the question of sophistication and long term. Cargill has worked much more quietly behind the scenes. In terms of your question I would tend to turn it around and say is the US Department of Agriculture really a division of Cargill? Because if you look at the turn over in the government versus the turnover at Cargill, and the dedication and skill of the senior executives, I think that Cargill would come out way ahead. You have to ask that question.
If you go back and look in Canada, I discovered that there was a nifty little… and this was at the point when food policy in Canada was being substantially re-oriented in favor of large corporate industrial farming and so on… that it was the Cargill Vice President who occupied the office next to the Deputy Minister of Agriculture in Canada. If one looked at what came out of the government office it was clearly Cargill's design. I think that's the way it's operated, much less in your face and much more behind the scenes. It's gone on, one can find the documentation for Cargill advising China how it should orient its food system nationally, what it should be, what it should import, and what it should export. The US has fully supported that line and China has gone along with it.
JS: While Cargill exerts incredible power within the countries they operate, Cargill made little effort to hide this in the company's 2003 Citizenship Report. In it, they commented on their presence in Indonesia, and the comment reads as follows, "In rural Indonesia, Cargill plays a role that government usually performs elsewhere."
As I spoke with Brewster Kneen, author of the book Invisible Giant, I recognized that the role that Cargill plays within Canada is essentially a look into how the privatization of agriculture and food affects Canadians. As many Canadians fear that the privatization of health care will take away our individual right as Canadians to have access to services created for the common good, herein presents an ideal opportunity to look at how passive Canadians have been in allowing our food, a determinant of health, to already as privatized as it is. Perhaps as Canadians, we need to begin asking ourselves whether the privatization of food is of deeper concern than the privatization of health care. And Brewster comments on these thoughts.
BK: One could do well to look at what's happened to agriculture and to see that as a plan for health care. Look at community health clinics and the local independent grocer or meat processor or killing plant, how those get eliminated in favor of centralized, bureaucratic, and much more controllable, and if privatized, profitable businesses. The public could do well to look at that. It's interesting that in the area of food, my sense over the last three years or so, there has been a rapid increase in the public concern about corporate control. Cargill may provide organic food but where does it come from, what are the labor conditions, and everything else. And is it really a good idea to put control of your food supply in the hands of half a dozen of very large corporations. A lot of people are saying wait a minute, that's not a good idea. We need to apply that same logic to health care. We need the people who are not working for the drug companies, and owners of hospitals, to look after our health, but people that are dedicated to the public good and public service.
JS: As is the primary subject matter of this program Deconstructing Dinner, food security is often defined as the ability for communities to have easy access to safe and nutritious food grown and produced in an ecological and socially just way. But how large multinational corporations define the term is far different from say a food activist trying to encourage more local food production in their community. And Brewster Kneen uses the subject of climate change to describe which definition of food security is a more secure one.
BK: Cargill says, yes I'm a secure supplier because I can go anywhere in the world and get what I promised you. If I can't get it here then I will get it there. That's why it's sort of interesting to look at the list of ingredients of something and wonder where they are coming from because it won't just be availability but it will be price. Cargill will buy its ingredients wherever it can get the best deal, including through its own primary producers. The best thing that China can do is to import grains and cereals, the things that are grown in large quantities and because of its labor, concentrate on the specialty stuff. Cargill will guarantee their food security that they will reliably import into China everything that China needs in that line. Climate change raises an interesting question about how secure that sort of approach is going to be and all the other things that could intervene to disrupt the supply lines. It's also important to bring in the energy equation. Cargill, in its global operations, must consume a phenomenal amount of fossil fuel, transporting things around the world and back again to supply all kinds of people. When you look at food sovereignty, it means producing it close to home and eliminating that huge energy draw. When you look at scale again, look at the energy required for large scale industrial agriculture compared to what can be done with small scale diversified agriculture, whether it's in Africa or Alberta. That system in light of what we know about energy is going to run down.
JS: And that was Brewster Kneen, author of the book Invisible Giant – Cargill and its Transnational Strategies. Brewster is the author/publisher of the Ram's Horn newsletter. His book is published by Pluto Press out of the UK, and you can also get in touch with Brewster himself to get a copy of his book. His contact info can be found at www.ramshorn.ca. We will hear more from Brewster Kneen next week when we continue with part II of this Cargill exposé.
We are going to take a short musical break, and when we return hear from John Sauven, a Campaign Director for Greenpeace, an organization who has taken a very visible and active stance against Cargill's operations in Brazil. And here's Nelson, British Columbia, Aspen Switzer.
Aspen Switzer song.
And that was Nelson, British Columbia's Aspen Switzer. More info on Aspen can be found on her web site at aspenswitzer.com
If you are just tuning in, this is Deconstructing Dinner, a weekly one-hour program produced at Kootenay Co-op Radio in Nelson, British Columbia. My name is Jon Steinman, and on today's first part of the Agri-Business Exposed Series, we are taking a look at Cargill – one of the largest agricultural corporations in the world. An increased understanding of this company is ultimately, an increased understanding of the food that is available to Canadians.
Continuing on the topic of climate change, it is of course important to point out how we as the consumer, through the food we purchase, encourage or discourage climate change. It is becoming more and more common for eaters to recognize how the distance food travels has an impact on climate, but how often do we look at our food choices as contributing to deforestation, yet another major contributor to climate change. Well Greenpeace has been raising awareness about the deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest, the most biodiverse area on the planet. And one of the companies they have targeted is Cargill, the very same company that we as Canadians almost inescapably support every day. Greenpeace released a lengthy and very informative report back in 2006 titled 'Eating up the Amazon', and the report looked closely at how Cargill and one of their major customers McDonald's are contributing to the deforestation of the Amazon.
I was in touch with Thomas Henningsen, one of Greenpeace's campaigners who is currently in the Amazon, and Thomas was unable to speak with me but he was quoted as saying this, "Most people have never even heard of this company, but it's playing a part in one of the great environmental tragedies of our time."
Also at the forefront of the Greenpeace campaign is John Sauven. John is a Campaign Director and he works out of the organization's UK offices. John spoke to me over the phone from London, England.
John Sauven: One of the things which is becoming more and more apparent now is the impacts on climate change from deforestation. One of these issues was brought to floor recently in the report of Sir Nicholas Stern, The Stern Report that was released in the UK in the autumn of last year. He said that one of the key issues was not just in terms of going to a low carbon economy but it was also the issue of dealing with deforestation because that was responsible for somewhere between twenty and thirty percent of CO2 emissions. It was having a massive impact and this was mainly coming from the burning of the rainforest or the conversion of the rainforest from pristine rainforest into soya or palm oil or for cattle ranching or for other agricultural purposes.
Now one of the key things that Greenpeace has been involved with is looking at the drivers for deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest. There are three main drivers there: one has been soya, the other has been cattle ranching, and the third has been logging, mainly illegal logging. Very often you will start with illegal logging, and then you end up with cattle, and then you end up with soya. The companies that are involved with soya in terms of the big soya trading companies, mainly the three big US multi-national corporations, Bunge, ADM, and Cargill. Cargill was particularly significant because it built an export terminal for soya on the Amazon river. That led to a whole new wave of deforestation and an influx of farmers from the south of Brazil into the area around where the terminal was. Basically it jumped the kind of barrier that existed from the soya coming up from the south of the Amazon and eating away the Amazon rainforest on the southern belt. It immediately jumped right over into the heart of the Amazon where the river is. It started a whole new area of deforestation and destruction for soya. Cargill's port at Santarem acted as a sort of magnet and a very destructive magnet at that.
JS: As Cargill rarely if ever owns any agricultural land, they often place themself into a position where they can claim no responsibility for, in this case, deforestation. But as John Sauven indicates, the facility the company built in Santarem has acted as a magnet for such destructive practices, and even the facility itself was built illegally.
John Sauven: One of the key issues of course for Cargill was that they wanted to find a quick route out for soya from the heart of Brazil, particularly in the province of Martagrosa which is half in the Amazon rainforest and half out of it on the south side. It was very expensive for them to take it by road and rail to the Atlantic ports so they wanted to find a quicker way out. They thought of using the Amazon river as an artery for getting out to the Atlantic Ocean and then they could get their ships to Europe and to China in particular.
I think that the problem was that they built the terminal at a town called Santarem, halfway up the Amazon river. They had done no environmental impact assessments. The federal prosecutor in the state has launched a legal campaign against Cargill to have the port shut down. Every time he wins the case, Cargill appeals and so it goes on and it's been going on for a long time now. I think that we are near the end of that legal process. Cargill will now have to carry out an environmental impact assessment and will maybe even have to close the port while it does that.
One of the problems is that to a certain extent the onward march, not just that of soya for animal feed is pretty relentlessly upwards as the population of the world increases and people eat more meat, but we've not got the addition of the rush for bio-fuels of which soya could also be an important part of it. The pressures are always there for these big, globally traded commodities to eat up eco-systems and have enormous environmental impacts.
People aren't realizing the consequences because they look at their everyday products and they think how can we be destroying the Amazon? But when you actually trace it back, which is what Greenpeace did, trace it all the way back down the line to the big landowners in the Amazon and to Cargill who's trading with soya, and look to the whole export of it and trace it through, for example, to products that were sold in McDonalds. We began to expose what was happening and who the key companies were that were involved. That was a critical part of our campaign, the success of our campaign to a certain extent, because we also managed to get those companies around the table and we have now forced a moratorium on further deforestation for soya in the Amazon. That's currently still holding at the moment. There is a working group that has been established of the companies and the NGO's to actually hammer out a final agreement on this.
JS: As part of their campaign, Greenpeace has staged a number of coordinated actions to help raise awareness about Cargill's role in the deforestation of the Amazon, and John Sauven describes an action they organized back in May, 2006.
John Sauven: One of the things that we did was we carried out a major investigation tracing the humble soya bean from the Amazon rainforest all the way through to the end product, in terms of where it was ending up and who was actually using it. We managed to trace the soya bean from the farm down the Cargill supply chain through the ships, the ports into animal feed, chicken factories, all owned by Cargill. Then, looking at whom they were selling onto and of course we found that they were selling onto companies like McDonalds.
In order to put pressure on Cargill to get them to come to the negotiating table and get them to end their part in the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, we shut down the export facility at Santorem in the Amazon. We also closed down their European headquarters in London. And we closed down one of their biggest facilities in France, at Lyon that was supplying major fast food companies such as McDonalds with products.
Doing this simultaneously in Europe and Brazil did put enormous pressure on Cargill and really put the spotlight on them. It was really those series of actions that led to Cargill opening the first negotiations with Greenpeace, which up until that time had not progressed anywhere. It was an effective series of international actions across two continents.
JS: As Cargill is obviously facing some significant pressure over their operations' impacts on the environment; I was interested to see what the company had to say about this role. Located on the company's web site is their "Citizenship Report", in which can be found a section titled "Leading by Example on the Environment". The company refers to the palm oil industry in Indonesia which Cargill is heavily invested in, and they point the finger at the early plantation companies who burned tropical forest to clear land. This, as Cargill indicates, violated local environmental regulations. I asked John Sauven to comment on this manner in which the company addresses environmental issues.
John Sauven: Well I think that the problem is that you always in this situation, if you are moving into vulnerable eco-systems and you are a major international player, the impact that you are going to have is enormous. So for example, Cargill could open a plant at the Santarem in the Amazon and in all innocence say we just opened up a port there to bring our soya up from the south to export it. Now of course what happens is that they then become a magnet for farmers to move into the area, to force people off their land, to clear the rainforest, to plant soya, and to get into the business. The problem is that when a big multinational corporation just dumps themselves down in one of these communities, there are all kinds of knock on effects. They claim, oh we didn't know these were going to be the knock on effects, we were not aware that this was going to happen, or well it's happened now we have to think of a way to make it right and so on and so forth.
But you see the difficulty is that if you're trading in these global commodities and you're not really thinking about the environmental and social consequences of what you're doing, as like the top of your agenda, then the inevitability is that you are going to be in this situation.
I think that the same situation is happening in Indonesia and other places with palm oil where you've got people who are clearing the rainforest, burning the rainforest for palm oil. You've got more and more companies moving in. You've got rising demand, and for palm oil you've got rising demand for bio-fuels as well as for food ingredients. The cycle of destruction and deforestation just continues, and the company is saying well we've got the land that has already been destroyed and somebody else is doing this. But they are part and parcel of this whole drive for cheap products whether it's soya for animal feed or palm oil for food ingredients or for bio-fuels, they are part of the drive to destruction. Unless they agree that they are going to do it in a sustainable way and in a transparent way, then this destruction is inevitable and the impacts are going to be enormous.
JS: And you're tuned in to Deconstructing Dinner, as we listen to clips from my conversation with John Sauven of Greepeace. John has been at the forefront of their campaign against Cargill and the company's that Cargill works with. But the role that Cargill's soya operation plays in Santarem, Brazil, is not just one that has had significant environmental impacts, but has equally had a significant social impact as well. As the company uses the same model of doing business in all of the agricultural sectors it operates in, this one scenario provides a glimpse into the impact that the company has all over the world, wherever they operate.
John Sauven: One of the key things when you get big multinational companies coming into an area which is full of local communities and bringing in big mono-cultural globally traded commodities like soya is that the impact on people whose livelihoods are dependent on the land and who live off the land and have small holdings, it's huge. Either people are forced off the land violently, or they are bribed off the land. But even the bribery is very short lived because then people just end up living in shantytowns and very often regretting the decision that they made. It leads to a lot of land conflict.
And I think that it doesn't actually employ anybody either. When you look at the size and scale of these soya monocultures in the Amazon, they are enormous like the prairies in the US. You have massive machinery for farming vast acres or hectares of land and very few people employed. So it's not as if it is bringing any kind of development or benefit to the local people, it's really just lining the pockets of very big landowners and the big multinational corporations. And very often the local people are the ones that suffer. There are some famous cases; thousands of people are being killed in the Amazon in land conflicts and some of them like Sister Dorothy Stang, the American, are more internationally famous. But she was a nun in her seventies standing up for the land rights of the people and she was murdered. She is one of the many thousands that are being killed in that way, fighting for their land right.
JS: Prior to getting in touch with John Sauven of Greenpeace, I did contact his colleague Thomas Henningsen who at the time of my phone call was in the Amazon with a number of Cargill's customers. His role is to show first hand the destruction that their purchases from Cargill are contributing to, a responsibility, that moving past the influence of Cargill's customers ends up in the laps of you and I as the final consumer. As I neared the end of my conversation with John Sauven of Greenpeace, I asked him about the current situation in the Amazon with respect to Cargill's operations, and he also describes the moratorium that has been placed on any further destruction.
John Sauven: At the moment some of Cargill's major customers are with us in the Amazon having a look at the impact of deforestation. They are looking at the big soya monoculture in the Amazon and the social and environmental impacts on the Amazon. They are seeing first hand for themselves exactly what the impacts of their buying policies are in terms of where they source, how they source, who they trade with, and so on and so forth. So I think that's an important aspect of what we are doing at the moment in terms of showing people first hand, on the ground what's happening.
We're also involved with other NGO's, non-governmental organizations, in negotiations with Cargill and major US players, as well as the Brazilian player Margi, to deal with how we can deal with the issue of soya and deforestation in the Amazon. And to that end there is an agreement that there will be a moratorium on any further deforestation of the Amazon for soya. How that is actually implemented and policed and monitored is a subject now of discussions between those companies and ourselves. But those negotiations are ongoing and of course our aim is to try to bring those companies to the table and to try to find ways of stopping the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, at least massively reducing the deforestation happening in the Amazon rainforest. And I think that we are having some success in that. And we are getting some agreement from the companies about how to do that. And obviously that's a positive sign, a credit to organizations like Greenpeace and others who have been working on this issue.
JS: And that was John Sauven, a Campaign Director for Greenpeace. John is with the UK branch of the organization, and he spoke to me over the phone from London, England. You can check out more about Greenpeace and their current campaigns by visiting their web site at greenpeace.org. And located on the Deconstructing Dinner web site will be a wealth of information along with links to photographs and video of Greenpeace's actions against Cargill. There will also be a link the Greenpeace report titled 'Eating up the Amazon'. And that web site is cjly.net/deconstructingdinner.
In wrapping up today's broadcast of Deconstructing Dinner, I will remind you that today's broadcast has only been part 1 of this 2-part exposé on Cargill. On part II of the Cargill exposé we will, among a number of topics, hear from Cam Ostercamp, an Alberta farmer who will share his opinions and insights into how Cargill dominates the Canadian beef industry. We will explore the company's relationship to corn and more importantly corn syrup, an ingredient making its way into countless foods. And this topic will also lead into whether the company maintains a role in the diabetes and obesity epidemic sweeping the planet.
Deconstructing Dinner is made possible by the generous support of Ryerson University's Center for Studies in Food Security and New Society Publishers. More information on our supporters can be found on the Deconstructing Dinner website: cjly.net/deconstructingdinner.
That was this week's edition of Deconstructing Dinner, produced and recorded at Nelson, British Columbia's Kootenay Co-op Radio. I've been your host Jon Steinman. I thank my technical assistant Dianne Matenko. The theme music for Deconstructing Dinner is courtesy of Nelson-area resident Adham Shaikh.
Today's feature on Cargill is being used to launch a new ongoing series here on the program titled Agri-Business exposed. And a page on our website will be devoted to this series so you can stay updated on future broadcast dates.
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The National Accreditation Alliance of Medical Transport Applications (NAAMTA) would like to congratulate Classic Lifeguard Aero Medical Services, an Alliance Member, for reaching their one-year medical transport accreditation anniversary and contributing to the NAAMTA Alliance.
For over 24 years, Classic Lifeguard (a rotor and fixed-wing organization) has been filling the needs for emergency air medical transport services receiving calls from multiple EMS and law enforcement agencies to hospitals and clinics along the Arizona/Utah border with bases in Page, Arizona, Vernal, Utah, and a recently opened base in Riverton, Wyoming.
NAAMTA's Accredited Members are held in high esteem for meeting stringent requirements for medical transport operational excellence. Classic Lifeguard excelled in this process by showing strict compliance through adherence to the NAAMTA Standards, demonstration of best practice procedures identified in employee interviews and on-site evaluations conducted by auditors who are ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management Systems Certified.
"In the year since Classic Lifeguard received their NAAMTA Accreditation they continue to impress us in providing quality patient care and practicing safety for their medical transports. The time and dedication of Program Director Matt Stein and his employees is evidenced in their transports, training, and commitment to readiness for the variety of calls and the demands of the areas they service. Their contributions to the NAAMTA Alliance resonates their pursuit for procedural excellence and continuous improvement to the industry. We congratulate Classic Lifeguard and thank you all," Amy Arndt, NAAMTA's Program Director.
Classic Lifeguard has built a solid reputation of excellence and safety in providing emergency scene response and inter-facility transport services.
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Boxing and punching sports may be seen as dangerous sports for children, but it is essential for their health. Children and adolescents do undergo stress when they are angry or frustrated, and they would need a youth punching bag as part of their therapy and as a way of letting out what they feel. Instead of punching their pillows, walls or other children, a punching bag for kids will help them control and manage their emotions appropriately.
A bag can be used at home where the kids will punch on it not only let out their stress, but also have fun as they build their physique. It helps reduce the incidences of obesity and other inactivity associated diseases in children because the child will always be active unlike when playing video games. If you want your child to start playing sports early or engage themselves in martial arts, then a punching ball will be of excellent help.
When the child starts out using this equipment, make sure that they start it slow to avoid any injuries and they will later improve their speed and power.
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1. 4 Piece All Purpose Heavy Bag Set for Children
It is a boxing set that a heavy bag made of heavy canvas with Double-end tie down design, 6 oz. youth boxing gloves, and adjustable skip rope as a ceiling attachment with hardware. This is what the kid needs to start boxing and other different skills such as physical coordination and discipline while having fun. You don't need to buy any other equipment.
It has a ceiling attachment and hardware which helps you hang it hence giving your little one easier access.
- The price is affordable and cheap for a 4 piece boxing set.
- You will get a full refund of your money if you don't like the equipment.
- It has a 1- year warranty period for the repair and replacement of any defective parts.
- Made of an excellent quality material
- Not recommended if you don't have enough space to hang it.
2. Liberty Imports Sport Kids Boxing Gloves and Bag
It has a great design where the punching ball stands a solid boxing stand. The stand has an elastic spring, which allows it to get back into place. It can be weighed down with sand or water to avoid toppling over when it is hit.
The height is adjustable i.e. from 30" to 43" (80- 110 cms), so it can be used by kids with different heights, or a child can grow with it.
- It comes with gloves hence the child can enjoy a fun, realistic and safe experience.
- The gloves can be hanged on the boxing stand.
- Best for people who don't have enough space in their homes as it can be moved around.
- The boxing speed bag has to be inflated by use of a pump which doesn't come with the kit.
- The stand can easily break if excessive force is used.
3. Kid Kick Wavemaster
The structure is good as it has high impact inner foam that absorbs strikes and kicks well, has a durable nylon that doesn't fray or rip even after several months of use.
This youth punching bag with stand has four weight, and height adjustments hence work well for children of different stature and all ages.
- Most parents say that it is a quality punching bag for kids with a design of Kid Kick logo on the front which acts as a target for kids when practicing punches and kicks.
- It has a low and heavy base that weighs about 170 pounds when filled with sand or water and it prevents it from toppling over even when used by the most active kids.
- It has small roll relocation for the shorter hitters, and it is great to practice for boxing classes and martial arts.
- Freestanding with a rounded base, hence makes it easy to move it around.
- It can be emptied when you want to transport it.
- Has a 1-year limited manufacturer's warranty
- Not suitable for kids when they get to 11 years and if they are tall.
- They make an annoying sound when rolling.
- Expensive, but this is justified by the many quality features it has.
4. Ringside Youth Kids Training Bag Set
It has a slip- on head gear with an elastic chin strap hence offering a realistic, safe boxing experience. It teaches the child needs to be safe while boxing and it provides safety in case the child misses to strike the bag and it hits their head.
The boxing gloves, headgear and the bag are made of a high-quality material which is very durable, and the design is attractive and beautiful hence kids will be attracted to it.
- It comes with two slip on gloves so you will not need to buy a pair of gloves so the child can start training immediately and it also saves you money.
- It is a hanging product, so you will not worry about tripping over it.
- Most parents complain that it is smaller than they expected.
- The height is not adjustable, and at times you may be forced to lower the mounting point.
- The return policy is for thirty days only, and the buyer will pay for the return shipping.
Buyer's Guide
As a parent, you need to pay attention to several things when you are buying your child a bag such as:
1. Size
The weight should be right because most injuries do happen when they use a heavy bag, and if it is too light, there is a chance that it will swing back and hit the child. To get the right size, you will first weigh your child and then get a kid punching bag that is half the weight of the child. For example, if your child weighs, 139 pounds or less, equipment that weighs 60 pounds is suitable for them.
2. Freestanding or hanging
You have to decide depending on the available space, whether you will get a bag that is standing or hangs on its own and whether it will be inflatable or filled.
If you have limited space, then get a standing punching bag so that it can be dragged back and forth when you want to use it and easy to store. It is the convenient it option because you will not need to buy any hanging accessories.
If you have plenty of space, then chose a hanging bag. They are good when you have a spare room where you can hang, and it will not disturb neighbors because it does produce noise and vibrations when punched. However, you can get a hanging bag spring that absorbs the shock hence creating less noise.
Kids love the hanging punching bag because when they hit it, it will swing away and then come back where they can dodge it, kick it as it passes by therefore creating more fun.
Above all, chose a safe environment where the child has enough room for movement.
3. Design
This matters because buying something that has your child's favorite superhero may not work well with the child. Get a model with a face of the opponent of their superhero and the child will have the nudge to hit the bag.
4. The material
Two best materials will last for long, and these are leather and vinyl. Leather has a natural and comfortable feeling, but it can be costly. Vinyl is a good alternative, and it will not tear and crack easily. Choose a punching bag for children that has a waterproof material so that if it is used outdoors and it is rained on, it doesn't get moldy or damaged. There should be a layer of foam in it that will ensure that the child doesn't get hurt.
5. Gloves
They are needed to avoid swollen knuckles, and if not worn they would cause bleeding after a couple of punches. They should be light and fit well. They should be of a durable material that will not tear or rip and inside there should be a thick layer of foam which protects the knuckles when punching. A hand wrap is needed to stabilize the wrists, and if a child doesn't wear the right hand wraps or wear them correctly, then it can lead to pain or a broken wrist.
Recommended: How to Wrap Your Hands Correctly
6. Price
The price matters and what you should consider is not a cheap bag, but a product that is value for your money. Check if the bag is giving you adequate benefits, and it has the features that you want. You may also consider the cost of hanging the bag and hardware expenses such as the screws, shock spring, chains, hooks, swivel and a mount.
There are several kids' punching bags in the market so if you don't know where to start, you may read reviews from parents who have bought bags before purchasing and you will know which is most recommended. Involve your kid and guide them in making a choice that will make them happy.
Health Benefits Punching Workouts for Kids
- It enhances cardiovascular health because as they increase their speed and strength, the heart and lungs get stressed. Hence they are challenged to adapt so that they can support the high level of physical activity.
- It's a great stress reliever as the punching a bag is a way of letting their emotions out.
- It improves the brain capacity and function. Hence improving on their reaction time, focus and memory.
- It improves on coordination and balance such as eye-hand coordination. So it reduces the risks of falling and injuring themselves.
- It builds better, stronger and faster flexes because the child is always watchful unlike when they are playing indoor games such as video games.
- Improves on their health and keeps them fit because they spend a lot of time strengthening their arms and feet. This builds their overall strength, increase weight loss and build more muscles. Regular punching workouts will lower their fat percentage and work on their shape.
- It helps children improve on their self-confidence as they learn how to protect themselves from bullies or strangers.
What about kids inflatable punching bag?
Well, if you want to buy a superb equipment for your children to work out, forget them. An inflatable bop bag is just a toy and does not provide efficient user experience. Maybe they are suitable for toddlers.
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MP Nick Herbert is set to convene a broadband summit next month, which will discuss the future of high-speed internet in West Sussex.
The Arundel and South Downs MP will host the meeting with West Sussex County Council and aims to bolster support for improved internet access in rural areas.
West Sussex: Better Connected will be held on May 20th in Chichester and Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt will be one of the keynote speakers at the event.
He will be joined by John Peel, Head of the new Coast to Capital Local Enterprise Partnership; Bill Murphy, Managing Director of internet service provider (ISP) BT's Next Generation Access department, and a number of local representatives.
Speaking to the Mid Sussex Times about the broadband internet summit, Mr Herbert said: "We are less than 50 miles from London and yet parts of rural West Sussex have no broadband coverage at all, while many areas have slow speeds.
"Poor broadband holds back local enterprise and disadvantages rural communities."
In Oxfordshire, a similar campaign is being run by Deputy Council Leader David Robertson to boost rural broadband access in the county.


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Badgers are found across Britain, usually in woods below 100 metres wherever ground conditions, such as drainage, and land use permits. They live in underground burrows, called setts, in social groups usually of between 4 and 12 badgers. Each group has a 'territory', varying in size from around 30 hectares where there is plenty of food and 150 hectares in marginal habitat.
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Cubs open their eyes and gain their milk teeth after about 6 weeks. They leave the sett for the first time when they are about 8 weeks old. By 4 months, badgers have a full set of permanent teeth. They can hunt for food and no longer rely on the sow's milk for nourishment.
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Badgers are most easily identified by their black and white striped head - the silver-grey hair on their body makes them difficult to make out especially in poor light. They are not very vocal, although they occasionally make sounds ranging from whinnying in pleasure to growling and barking in threat. Signs of badger activity can be seen more easily than the animal itself. Look for evidence such as heavily worn badger paths with distinctive 5-toed footprints, claw marks on trees, dung pits, mounds of earth outside the entrances to setts, remains of bedding material, and coarse, wiry badger hair.
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If you support these celebrities by paying to watch their movies, you might change your mind after seeing this.
Amy Schumer, Jennifer Aniston, Sofia Vergara, and Julianne Moore are just a few of the celebrities who joined President Obama in speaking out against gun violence this week.
A PSA called 'We Can End Gun Violence' comes after the horrific shooting in San Bernardino, California last week that killed 14 people and injured 21 others in what authorities say was an act of terrorism.
The heartfelt message from stars such as Sarah Silverman, Nathan Lane, Debra Messing, Kevin Bacon, Michael J. Fox, Olivia Munn, and Kristen Schaal also comes out just days before the anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut.
'When we come together, Americans can do anything,' Obama says in the video.
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Purchasing Power Parity and Inflation
the increase in the money supply as being analogous to giving people more money. If the output of goods and services is not growing at a similar rate, inflation will eventually occur. According to PPP Theory, what will happen to the U.S. dollar? Why?© BrainMass Inc. brainmass.com August 21, 2018, 5:48 am ad1c9bdddf
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When inflation occurs the value of the home currency will be at a disadvantage and hence this currency will have a low purchasing power. So according to the purchasing power parity (PPP), currency exchange rates between two countries should be equal to the aggregate levels of prices that are exhibited by the two countries . The PPP theory ...
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Strong Quarter for Coldwater Creek…
Women's apparel merchant Coldwater Creek continues to leap from strength to strength. For the third quarter ended Oct. 28, the Sandpoint, ID-based cataloger/retailer posted net income of $15.9 million, up 52% from the $10.5 million it netted for the third quarter of last year.
Third-quarter revenue grew too, by 37%, to $256.4 million. Internet sales rose 29%, to $59.5 million, while catalog sales rose 7%, to $29.4 million. The increase in direct sales came despite a slight decline in the number of catalogs circulated, from 24.3 million for the third quarter of 2005 to 24.0 million.
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Cystic fibrosis is a chronic disease that can cause severe respiratory problems as mucus builds up in the lungs and often requires complicated treatments. But an individualized exercise program may help improve lung function and fitness in children.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins Children's Center created tailored exercise programs for 58 children age 6 to 16 who had the disease. The study participants were asked about their daily routine and which physical activities they enjoyed, then were given tailored workout suggestions. Those included walking, taking a dance class, playing with a Wii, or playing a sport such as basketball.
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Best Buy launch recruitment drive, promise up to 70 megastores
Their recruitment website launched a little while ago, but today they've kicked into high gear; Best Buy are on the way and they want you, they want you, they want you as a new recruit. The US behemoths have today launched a recruitment drive to find the first of an expected 8,000 UK employees.
The first stores will open in Thurrock and Southampton in the spring of next year, each employing around 100 staff. Best Buy will also be recruiting for their new headquarters in West London and for this building site at Lakeside, which will become an überstore in the near future. They seem pretty serious about getting customer service right from the start - staff will be enrolled in a two month academy programme to learn about the products they're expected to sell.
Best Buy is hoping to open up 70 gigantostores in the UK over the next five years, with the aim of giving DSGi a sound kick up the arse. It can't come soon enough, says us.
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- FossiiIssue is, they won't train up staff on new products like every other company and within 2 years will be as useless as Comet or PC World
- yeahcue the mass DSGi colleague migration to Best Buy, thinking they're gonna end up getting something better. but it'll probably still be the same: scripted customer service basic wage no recognising a union if the staff belong to one (DSGI don't) hard sell dressed up as 'customer solution'.
- Ben T.Lakeside = Thurrock
- BuyMoreBod@ Yeah. Innit. I do wonder if anything is going to change. Here at Bitterwallet towers, they seem to think Best Buy is the answer to their consumer electronics woes, but lets face it, DSGi (Currys, PC World) are no better than Kesa (Comet); John Lewis has a tiny elitist range; the specialists are really only niche retaillers; the supermarkets offer tat and little choice or knowledge. *Holds breath for Best Buy kicking arse* *suffocates*
- Ralph M.HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU NEED TO BE TOLD IT WILL BE THE SAME AS ALL THE REST THEY ARE HERE TO MAKE MONEY NOT BECOME A CHARITY
- Ian P.a little bit more competition can't be bad ; however they probbaly will take the best PC World etc employees where the new store is close to existing stores....
- PhilThe Hedge end southampton store looks almost complete from the outside. Can't wait. (They will beat DSG as long as there is no hard sell on worthless addons.)
- charitynjwLatest inside info - BB are watching & waiting for the right moment to strike - probably be when DSG are up accepting the 'Golden Turd'.........
- David"(They will beat DSG as long as there is no hard sell on worthless addons.)" Pretty much the only way to make money in the business they are in is to sell worthless addons. Margins on laptops, TVs etc are a few percent if that. It'll be the same old warranty (£300)? laptop bag(£30)? dvd-rs (£10)? etc etc
- Dave H.Unless they can sell 'worthless addons' they'll struggle. As David says, laptops etc have virtually zero margin. Some products may actually be loss-leaders.
- Want B.[...] electrical retail industry, taking the fight to the doors of DSGi and John Lewis. They're recruiting staff, their stores are being built and soon there'll be more big bargains and outraged customers. [...]
- CWBest buys = staff in green! Comet = staff in orange! Currys = staff in blue! PC World = staff in purple! other than that its all the same.
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Stephen Strasburg will begin the first day of the rest of his life Tuesday morning, and we're not trying to be cliché here. The Nationals' pitching phenom will start his rehabilitation work at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California, the first step in his long road back from Tommy John reconstructive elbow surgery.
Strasburg had the surgery Friday with Dr. Lewis Yocum performing the operation and Nationals team orthopedist Dr. Wiemi Douoguih assisting at the Jobe-Kerlan Clinic in Inglewood, California. The three-hour surgery did not contain any surprises, as Yocum cultivated a tendon from Strasburg's left thigh and transplanted it into his right elbow to replace the ruptured ulnar collateral ligament.
Much of the Nationals' future is riding on Strasburg making a full recovery. They made him the first overall pick in the 2009 amateur draft from San Diego State, then signed him for a draft-record $15.1 million. It is not hyperbole to say Strasburg's major-league debut on June 8 against the Pirates at Nationals Park in Washington was the most anticipated first game of any player in baseball history, and he did not disappoint by striking out 14 in seven innings.
The plan of having Strasburg leading the Nationals back to respectability will have to wait a year, though. The 22-year-old almost certainly won't be ready to take a regular turn in the major-league rotation until the start of the 2012 season.
It would be enough to depress any general manager. However, the Nationals' Mike Rizzo is upbeat about Strasburg's future.
"I sleep well at night because I know this is only going to be a blip on the radar and Stephen will come back stronger than ever and resume on his path to having the type of outstanding career we believe he will have," Rizzo said. "I really feel it's just a bump in the road. Now, if there was a labrum tear or a rotator cuff injury, I wouldn't be sleeping so well at night. If it were a shoulder problem, I'd be very concerned."
Indeed, the recovery rate is extremely high for pitchers undergoing Tommy John surgery. What gives Rizzo even more hope that Strasburg will return to become a dominant pitcher is the quality of care he will receive during his rehab.
Strasburg will start out at Scripps, near his home in San Diego. The rehab will then move to the state-of-the-art training facility agent Scott Boras provides for his clients in Newport Beach, California. Once spring training nears in early February, Strasburg will report to the Nationals' complex in Viera, Florida, and work under the watchful eye of respected veteran minor-league pitching coach Mark Grater, who oversees the organization's rehabbing pitchers.
"Stephen is going to have a lot of very good people watching over him and taking care of him," Rizzo said.
Strasburg will also have a teammate to lean on for advice and support during his rehabilitation. Highly regarded right-hander Jordan Zimmermann underwent Tommy John surgery last year on August 19.
The 24-year-old returned to the major leagues one year and one week after the operation, starting August 26 against the Cardinals and allowing five runs in four innings. However, in his second start last Tuesday, he pitched six scoreless innings against the Marlins and allowed only one hit.
"Stephen and I have talked," Zimmermann said. "Naturally, he was a little apprehensive about everything but he also knows that it's an injury and a surgery you can come back from. The most difficult part of the rehab is mental, especially the first four months when you're not allowed to throw a baseball. I told him that those four months will seem like they're forever but then the time really starts to fly once you begin throwing. A year seems like a long time but it's really not and I know Stephen, with his work ethic, will put in all the work necessary to make a strong recovery."
The Nationals had a very detailed and structured plan on how to handle Strasburg's entry into professional baseball this season after he signed too late to play last year, except for a stint in the Arizona Fall League. Yet Strasburg's golden arm still blew out.
"People ask me if I'm disappointed but I'm not," Rizzo said. "I know we did everything the right way. Nothing we did compromised Stephen's health. It's really one of those things where all you can say is 'that's baseball.' Sure, it's a bad break for Stephen and for us, but it's not the end of the world, not at all."
It's a rare September when the Angels are not involved in a pennant race. They have won the last three American League West titles and five of the last six.
However, the Angels won't be playing in October this season as they are 65-71 and 10 ½ games behind the Rangers in the division race. The Angels are stumbling to the finish line, having lost 14 of their last 20 games and have been shut out six times in that span.
"It is what it is," Angels right fielder Torii Hunter said. "We're not playing well. It's not just offensively. It's a lot of things we're doing wrong. We're not ourselves. I'm embarrassed by the way we're playing. We can't get any run support for our starting pitchers. We can't hit with runners in scoring position—we barely get runners in scoring position. And when we do, I think maybe we try a little too hard. We've been pretty inconsistent all year—not just offensively. It's our total game."
It is offensively where the Angels really are dead, though. Until breaking out Sunday with a 7-4 victory over the Athletics, they had scored a combined 12 runs in their last eight games and been held to two or fewer runs in 12 of their last 20 games. The Angels are averaging 4.30 runs per game this season, which ranks 21st in the major leagues and ninth in the AL.
"Some guys are having good at-bats," manager Mike Scioscia said. "Some guys are obviously struggling with some things. There's a lot of inconsistency in our offense at this point, and it's obviously reflected in us not giving ourselves a chance to win some games."
The Astros pretty much sealed their fate early when they lost their first eight games. However, since hitting their low-water mark of 19 games under .500 at 40-59 on July 26, the Astros have been very good, going 24-13 in that span to improve to 64-72.
The Astros have also become spoilers in recent weeks, sweeping a four-game road series from the Phillies and a three-game home series against the Cardinals. However, the Astros insist their motivation is not trying to end the post-season hopes of other teams.
"We're not thinking of being spoilers, we're not thinking of doing anything else," manager Brad Mills said. "We're kind of focused on our ballclub and getting these guys to play like they need to play and how they're capable of playing."
The Astros season seemed headed for an ugly finish after they traded right-hander Roy Oswalt and first baseman Lance Berkman in late July. Instead, the Astros are in third place in the National League Central, albeit 16 games behind the Reds.
"Nobody in here thinks we're going to lose," center fielder Michael Bourn said. "If you think you're going to lose, we don't need to be here. I don't care who's on the field or who we're playing against or who's pitching. It doesn't matter. We should always think we're going to win."
Major League Baseball came down hard on both the Nationals and Marlins for their benches-clearing brawl last week. A total of nine people were suspended or fined, the harshest punishment being the eight-game ban given to Nationals center fielder Nyjer Morgan.
Nationals manager Jim Riggleman received a two-game suspension. Like most managers, he does not like fighting because of the danger of his players potentially being injured. Riggleman believes MLB could eliminate the brawls by taking a page from the NHL's rule book.
"It should be just like hockey where if you come off the bench, you're automatically suspended," Riggleman said. "That would stop it right there. If you make it where it's essentially a one-on-one fight, you have four umpires who can break that up very quickly and there would be no trouble."
Scouts' views on various major league players:
Diamondbacks first baseman/outfielder Brandon Allen: "He's holding his own in the outfield, especially for someone who is a big guy and just started playing out there this year. He has big-time power and the Diamondbacks can use him in the lineup. Being able to play two positions gives them flexibility. A lot of the credit for his outfield play should go to (Triple-A manager) Brett Butler because he taught the kid well this summer."
Cubs infielder Darwin Barney: "He would be stretched to be an everyday shortstop in the big leagues, but I think he could play for a long time as a utility guy. He's solid in everything he does. He's never been considered a hot prospect, but he can play."
Rangers outfielder Jeff Francoeur: "He's in the right role now as a backup. He has great athletic ability, great tools, and a great attitude, but he just has never gotten a real feel for the nuances of the game. That's held him back from being a good everyday player."
Brewers third baseman Casey McGehee: "I was sure the league would catch up to him this year in his second big-league season, but he's made adjustments. He's a good hitter. He doesn't chase pitches and he hammers off-speed pitches. Sometimes, guys just bloom late and that's the case with him."
White Sox designated hitter Manny Ramirez: "A lot of people talk like he's through, but I don't think so. He still gives you a great at-bat and he still hits the ball hard. He's going to have a big finish and really help that club. You just watch and see. If they come back and beat out the Twins (in the AL Central), he'll be the biggest reason."
Giants left-hander Barry Zito: "He's just so hard to figure. He'll go through spells where he looks the old Cy Young winner from his days in Oakland, then he'll take a step back and can't find the strike zone. The whole key for him remains getting the breaking stuff over. If he does that, he's still tough to beat."
Three series to watch with probable pitching matchups and all times Eastern:
Marlins (69-66) at Phillies (78-59), Monday-Wednesday September 6-8
Adalberto Mendez and Anibal Sanchez vs. Roy Oswalt and Vance Worley, 1:05 p.m. and 7:05 p.m.; Chris Volstad vs. Joe Blanton, 7:05 p.m.; Andrew Miller vs. Cole Hamels, 7:05 p.m.
Reds (79-57) at Rockies (72-64), Monday-Thursday September 6-9
Aaron Harang vs. Ubaldo Jimenez, 3:10 p.m.; Johnny Cueto vs. Jhoulys Chacin, 8:40 p.m.; Bronson Arroyo vs. Aaron Cook, 8:40 p.m.; Travis Wood vs. Jason Hammel, 3:10 p.m.
Rays (83-53) at Red Sox (76-61), Monday-Wednesday September 6-8
Jeff Niemann vs. Jon Lester, 7:10 p.m.; David Price vs. Daisuke Matsuzaka, 7:10 p.m.; Matt Garza vs. Clay Buchholz, 7:10 p.m.


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