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REVIEWS: Tradeshows & Events

I suppose you’ve noticed that it’s taken me longer than I predicted to get things going after I returned from Expo. And there’s a perfectly good reason for the delay: While Ted and I attended the show, we caught a case of the Anaheim Plague. Never heard of it? Well, its most prominent symptom is [...]

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*Ted’s note - I will return next week to my series on animals. I wanted to share with you some news from within the organic industry. You can learn more about the event I am writing about here and you can learn about the controversy here.This past Wednesday, I traveled to Colorado to [...]

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Yesterday marked the last day of this year’s ExpoWest, arguably the most important trade show in the natural products industry. Held in the Anaheim Convention Center, this show is friggin’ huge.
We got into town on Friday night, so we missed the first day. I started out early on Saturday morning with an ambitious game plan, [...]

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Okay, so I’d been hoping to actually watch the debate footage myself and throw in my two cents, but the webcast is over two hours long, and my work load is astronomical at the moment…
Excuses, excuses. I did get a chance to skip around on RealPlayer to get a sense of the topics discussed, and [...]

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On Monday I went to the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco. I wasn’t sure what to expect, since I’d never been to this show before. As my sister-in-law, Abby, and I drove down to the city, we wondered, what would it be like? We knew it wouldn’t be focused entirely on organics, since it’s [...]

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On Saturday I went to the Green Festival in San Francisco. It’s not my favorite show, for one reason: It plays into every single stereotype of the “green” lifestyle. Tie-dye, dreadlocks, and patchouli were omnipresent, with rastafarian hats hanging from the ceiling. Despite the vibe at the show, I did have one amazing thing happen [...]

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