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Acme Lets 900 Employees Go; Fed Bust Amish Farmers After a Year Long Sting Operation

• Apparently Acme Markets has more associates than it needs to serve its dwindling level of sales, so it’s letting 900 off them go. [PBJ]

• Thank goodness the federal government is keeping us safe by cracking down on that most dastardly of threats: Amish farmers selling unpasteurized milk! They conducted a year-long sting on one Pennsylvania farm. [Washington Times]

• Will the fro-yo trend overtake the world? Pinkberry hopes so; it’s looking to be in seventeen international markets by year’s end. [NRN]

• Corn syrup is trying to rebrand itself as “corn sugar” and real sugar is pissed, so much so that a group of sugar farmers is suing. [ABC News]

• One U.S. senator from Kansas is scaring everyone by proclaiming that a terror attack on the country’s food supply is “is not an ‘if’ but a ‘when.’” [Business Week]

Acme Lets 900 Employees Go; Fed Bust Amish Farmers After a Year Long Sting