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With both obesity and fiscal austerity on the rise, makers of unhealthy foods are a tempting target for taxation. While companies like Coca-Cola and McDonald's are most obviously in the sights of the food police, the rest of the food industry may be vulnerable as well.

Dell will highlight a handful of tech company results this week. Also reporting earnings will be food giants Smucker and Campbell Soup, also Marriott and other members of the lodging and hospitality industry, and the first of a long string of results from retailers.

24/7 Wall St. recently looked at a number of large American companies, some of which are owned by foreign companies, to see which will disappear in 2011. It didn't take long to come up with a list of familiar names such as Sara Lee, Office Depot, Borders, E*Trade and five others.

Stop! Put down that veggie burger. Back slowly away from the health bar. Do you know how that thing was processed? Cornucopia Institute, which advocates for family farmers and has a history of crying foul about the misuse of terms like "natural" and "organic" in food products, has a new...

Organic food advocates have turned against a once highly-embraced brand, Silk soy milk, after the company that owns it quietly altered the products' label from government-regulated "organic" to the practically meaningless "natural" without properly notifying customers. The silence surrounding the...

Consumers, Dean Foods (DF) discovered, are a little put off by the term "organic." A survey by the Shelton Group found that consumers believed that "natural" is a greener descriptor than "organic," that "natural" is federally regulated -- and that "organic was just a fancy way of saying...