• A University of California, Berkeley study found that San Francisco’s health care mandate did not result in job losses, as some had predicted. [SF Chronicle]
• To save wine from global warming, chefs and wine industry folks in France “published an op-ed in the newspaper Le Monde calling on President Nicolas Sarkozy to ensure that strict targets on carbon emissions be adopted at the UN climate summit this December” [Gourmet]
• Starbucks is raising the price of hard-to-make drinks like frappacinos by as much as 30 cents, but will cut prices on simple cups of joe. [NYP]
• Kid’s menus feature most of the fried and unhealthy foods they did four years ago, even though more parents seem interested in healthier options, according to a Chicago-based research firm. [NRN]
• Hormel Foods profits jumped this quarter partly thanks to the falling prices of corn, which the company uses for turkey feed. [Bloomberg].
