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2012 Food Industry Predictions vs. Reality

Liz Webber

December 14, 2012

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2012 Food Industry Predictions vs. Reality

Last December, SN contributors announced their predictions for the food industry in 2012. Now that the year is almost over, we got to wondering which of those predictions came true — and which ended up being way off the mark. Here, we take on each one and evaluate the outcome with SN news stories from the past year.

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