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Beverage Industry Launches a Campaign Against Mayor Nutter and Calls For Soda Tax; Groupon Gets in on the Grocery Game

• In the face of renewed efforts to place additional taxes on sweetened soft drinks and soda — this time to bail out the financially troubled public schools system — the beverage industry begins mounting a campaign against Mayor Nutter and the soda tax proposal. [KYW Newsradio]

• Remember how we told you we’re all literally eating crap? Well, that’s also the reason all these people in Europe are sick with E. coli. [Slate]

• Good news for the antisocial: More and more restaurants are offering online ordering, letting customers completely bypass all human interaction. [NPR]

• The poor Cheesecake Factory is one of the chains most strongly affected by higher gas prices. Chipotle and P.F. Chang’s also feel the pain. [NRN]

• Sorry, everyone, high food prices are here to stay until at least 2012, says a U.N. agency. Developing nations will continue to be hardest hit. [AFP]

• Meanwhile, Groupon might help if you’re feeling the pinch: The coupon giant is getting into the groceries game. [Chicago Business]

• And in Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean, governments are all, forget (largely imported) groceries, plant a garden! [Business Week]

Beverage Industry Launches a Campaign Against Mayor Nutter and Calls For Soda