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More grocery stores have increased their prices to consumers for an iconic No. 1 size can of Campbell’s Condensed Tomato Soup. Here’s how prices have changed since our previous snapshot of prices at ten of the U.S.’s largest grocery-selling retailers roughly two months ago. ◾Walmart: $1.17/each, unchanged ◾Amazon: $0.99/each, unchanged (Lowest) ◾Kroger: $1.25/each, unchanged ◾Walgreens: $1.50/each, unchanged when you buy 2 cans ◾Target: $1.29/each, increase of $0.10 (+8.4%) ◾CVS: $2.19/each, increase of $0.40 (+22.3%, Highest) ◾Albertsons: $1.59/each, increase of $0.59 (+59.0%) ◾Food Lion: $1.19/each, increase of $0.19 (+19.0%) ◾H-E-B: $1.21/each, unchanged ◾Meijer: $1.19/each, increase of $0.19 (+19.0%) Among these sellers,...

The Campbell Soup lobbyist who said George Soros' foundation was assisting a caravan of migrants bound for the United States is no longer with the company. Kelly Johnston, formerly Campbell's vice president of government affairs, tweeted on Monday that the Open Society Foundations arranged for "troop carriers" and "rail cars" to support the caravan, which formed earlier this month in Central America. Johnston has since deleted his Twitter account. Campbell and Johnston had discussed his leaving over the summer, the company said on Saturday. Johnston was scheduled to leave in November, but the tweet sped up his exit. "In the...

In October 2010, news broke about how the Campbell’s Soup company received an Islamic (halal) certification for some of its product line, and many were outraged. There was a legitimate concern – not with the fact that Campbell’s received the certification, but with what organization the certification came from, that being the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a group co-founded by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) leader Sami al-Arian. In 2007 and 2008, ISNA was named by the U.S. Justice Department as a co-conspirator for two federal trials dealing with the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. The defendants...

A new commercial from Camden-based Campbell's Soup Company features two fathers feeding their son 'Star Wars'-themed soup has come under fire from critics, but the company says it was creating a real reflection of the American family in the contemporary United States. The commercial, a promotion ahead of the December release of 'The Force Awakens,' shows the fathers riffing on Darth Vader's bombshell 'Star Wars' quote: "I am your father!" The company developed the idea as part of its "Made for Real, Real Life" campaign, a tagline that aims to capture what's going on people's lives when they eat soup,...

Campbell Soup's first major brand push in five years depicts real families, including a gay couple and their son, along with real weather patterns as the soup giant tries to tap into what's really going on in people's lives when it's time for soup. The effort carries the new tagline "Made for Real, Real Life," which aligns with the company's corporate purpose of "real food that matters for life's moments."

A pro-life group that monitors the use of cells from babies victimized by abortions is today highlighting a biotech company, Senomyx, which it says produces artificial flavor enhancers using aborted fetal cell lines to test their products. The group Children of God for Life is calling for a public boycott of major food companies partnering with Senomyx. Debi Vinnedge, the director of the pro-life organization, tells LifeNews.com today that, in 2010, her group wrote to Senomyx CEO Kent Snyder and pointed out that moral options for testing their food additives could and should be used. But when Senomyx ignored her...

BERLIN - A GERMAN worker was boiled alive in an empty industrial-sized soup vat while trying to clean it, tabloid newspaper Bild reported on Sunday. The 36-year-old, named only as Markus, was scrubbing the 2m-high pot when the lid accidentally closed, automatically starting the jets of boiling water used to disinfect vegetables. 'For reasons we have still not cleared up, the disinfection process started too soon,' a police spokesman told the paper. By the time the unfortunate worker was found, he was already dead, Bild reported. The factory in Luebeck in northern Germany, which employs around 200 people, has been...

In light of Campbell's decision to support the homosexual agenda by continuing to spend its advertising dollars in pro-homosexual publications, here is an opportunity to share your favorite soup recipes for those who do not wish to support Campbells any more.

According to an article by Erik Sass in the Dec. 24 edition of the Media Daily News, Campbell's Soup will not be neutral in the culture war. The Media Daily News reports that Campbell's will continue to use its advertising dollars to support homosexual publications pushing the homosexual agenda and same-sex marriage. AFA had asked the company to remain neutral in the culture war. The company sponsored two pages of ads in both the December 2008 and January 2009 issues of The Advocate, the nation’s largest homosexual magazine. The ads featured the company's Swanson line of broth. The Media Daily...

ATLANTA - A father accused of poisoning his children’s soup in a scheme to sue the Campbell Soup Co. was indicted on tampering and fraud charges, authorities said. The children, a 3-year-old boy and his 18-month-old sister, were taken to hospital emergency rooms three times in January. According to investigators, their father fed them tainted soup each time. On the third occasion, authorities said, he used the prescription drugs Prozac and Amitriptyline — both used to treat depression — making his young daughter so ill she was flow by helicopter to an Atlanta hospital.

CAMDEN, N.J., Dec. 23 - If anybody was surprised that Camden was recently ranked America's most dangerous city, it wasn't the people who live here. In the past 12 months, there have been 53 homicides, including a 12-year-old shot to death on his porch for his radio, more than 800 aggravated assaults, including a toddler shot in the back of the head, at least 750 robberies and 150 acts of arson, more than 10,000 arrests and one glaring nonarrest - a serial rapist on the loose downtown. All in a city of 79,000, nine square miles small. For decades, Camden...

Pinellas Park, FL (LifeNews.com) -- A local judge will not reappoint a Stetson University law professor who was previously selected as guardian ad litem for Terri Schiavo. Professor Jay Wolfson was selected for the position after the state legislature passed Terri's Law. Charged with evaluating Terri's condition, Wolfson claimed Terri is in a persistent vegetative state, though numerous doctors and specialists disagree with his conclusion. Wolfson also said that she deserved to be given a swallowing test to see if she can eat and drink on her own before a decision is made to remove her feeding tube another time....

CLEARWATER, Fla. - A judge on Friday rejected Gov. Jeb Bush's request that an independent guardian continue working in the interests of a severely brain-damaged woman at the center of a right-to-die case. Chief Judge David Demers ruled that he would not reappoint a guardian to the case, citing pending litigation over the constitutionality of the law that called for the guardian for Terri Schiavo. "Terri Schiavo yet again has been denied an independent voice in the proceedings that may very well determine the outcome of her life," the governor's office said in a statement. Florida courts repeatedly have said...

Look At The Person Attached to the Tube By James M. Hoefler, Published St. Petersburg Times, Jan 10, 2004 There is much confusion and misunderstanding about the tragic case of Terri Schiavo, the Florida woman whose fate has become a matter of national attention in recent months. Schiavo has been seriously ill since a 1990 heart attack deprived her brain of oxygen for more than five minutes, causing severe and permanent loss of cognitive brain function. Her swallowing reflex was also compromised, so she has been kept alive hydrated and nourished by a feeding tube that was surgically implanted in...

Do you think Donovan McNabb overreacted to Rush Limbaugh's commentary? Do you think his assessment that Limbaugh is a racist is wrong? Are you tired of the everpresent double standard in this country regarding racism? If you answered yes to these questions forget telling the NFL about it...they're the problem, not the solution. However, you can tell one of McNabb's other employers: The Campbell Soup Company. If you, like me, have decided that Donovan McNabb is just another race baiter, you can contact the Campbell Soup Company by CLICKING HERE. You can tell them, like I did, you will not...