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    • Shopper & Investor Deals  25 Nov 2009

        A look at what's likely to happen at the registers once the doors open on Friday, with Richard Hastings, Global Hunters Securities; Richard Jaffe, Stifel Nicolaus & Co. and CNBC's Jane Wells.

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        Whether the deals are better than what shoppers will usually see or if it is just another marketing tactic, with Hitha Prabhakar, Style File Group; Brad Wilson, BlackFriday2009.com and CNBC's Jane Wells.

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        A discussion of the many ways retailers are preparing for Black Friday, live from K-Mart in Burbank, CA, with CNBC's Jane Wells.

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        Retailers are getting ready for Black Friday, and CNBC's Jane Wells has the play by play. Stacy Janiak, of Deloitte, shares her insight.

    • Amazon vs. Wal-Mart  24 Nov 2009

        What began as a price war between Wal-Mart and Amazon over a handful of books has nos spread to a wide assortment of consumer goods. Lee Eisenberg, a noted retail expert and consumer behaviorist, and CNBC's Jane Wells discuss.

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        A decrease in food prices is something to be thankful for this holiday, reports CNBC's Jane Wells.

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Thursday, 25 Sep 2008
Before You Lick That Ice Cream Cone, Read This!
Posted By:Jane Wells
Topics:Media

I scream, you scream, wait til you hear what they want in ice cream. No, this isn't a blog about Chinese milk powder.

PETA is asking Ben and Jerry's to replace the cow's milk in ice cream with...BREAST MILK. The animal rights group sent a letter to founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield after learning the Storchen restaurant in Switzerland plans to buy breast milk from nursing mothers to replace 75 percent of the cow's milk used in food. PETA says this will "lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms," and that "Everyone knows that 'the breast is best.'"

"Using cow's milk for your ice cream is a hazard to your customer's health," the letter says. "Dairy products have been linked to juvenile diabetes, allergies, constipation, obesity, and prostate and ovarian cancer...Animals will also benefit from the switch to breast milk. Like all mammals, cows only produce milk during and after pregnancy, so to be able to constantly milk them, cows are forcefully impregnated every nine months.

After several years of living in filthy conditions and being forced to produce 10 times more milk than they would naturally, their exhausted bodies are turned into hamburgers or ground up for soup." Sounds like the life of a day trader lately.

What would Cherry Garcia say?

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