European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page ,6 the stars and stripes wednesday May 8,1991 grocers View new food products 75,000 items expected to line shelves by Diane Duston the associated press Chicago a Ever stand in a grocery store aisle unable to choose a single Box of Cereal from the hundreds lining the shelves last year More than 13,000 new products were introduced in american super markets. This year expect 15,000 More. A we done to need 16 flavors of health bars a said Joseph Palmer owner of Palm crts supermarkets in Stamford Conn. A the redundancy is out of Palmer and thousands of other grocery store operators arc literally getting a taste this week of a what a new As More than 1,000 companies offer samples of their latest products at the food marketing institutes annual Trade show the largest of its kind in the world. Iced Coffee in a can is a big item this year. Scores of new a a Light and a flow fat versions of time honoured favourites will be on your shelves. Food for people on the run such As microwaveable sausage on a stick wrapped in a Pancake Are hitting the Market along with a plethora of other microwaveable goodies. There will be added varieties of packaged food that can be thrown into a briefcase or school lunch Box and heated by microwave. So called a microwave helpers that offer special seasonings or containers for cooking will be on the shelves. Single serving microwaveable lunch suggestions for everyone from baby to old folks Are being emphasized. The number of new products to some ways reflects the changing american lifestyle a families with separate eating times lots of single people cooking for themselves and children who fix their own snacks. If you count the new flavors of existing products items released Only to test markets gourmet and health foods As Well As those products going to supermarkets nationwide the number of new products in 1990 reached 13,244, a 9.8 percent increase Over 1989s level of 12,055. This years total is expected to top 15,000. But because of regional or specialized marketing an individual grocery store sees about 3,000 new products a year said a Palmer. So a fact products already its the stores will have to go to make room for Al this a one of the a soul difficult pref tvs we have is keeping up with new products said chairs Taisoo owner of three pig Gly wiggly supermarkets in Corinth miss Carson and Palmer sri grocers try to Stock w whatever their Cusso oers see advertised. A we re the Hattig tread foe Sailau facture svy said Palmer. The Battle for space has gotten so Turous that grocers est longer wifi Sake Nils a a products they doubt wi3 move. Some to negotiate a slotting fees a paid by the manufacturer for a spot on the. Shelf. Mann to facts. President of the grocer manufacturers of Zameska lot. Rejects the Dorioa that there May be ton Many products. A it s what makes Arr Erica be said. A every ouse wants something different a new products feb Kwh of the said Cas bed Mai. Owner of Kings family supermarkets in Australia who w As among the hundreds of foreign retailers and producers at the Trade show. Martin Friedman editor of new product news the chronicler of each years new offerings said that when a product hits the Market it s As inexpensive As it s Ever going to be because of the number of coupons and rebates. The people of fort Wayne. Ind., Fig. Ured that out during the Loos. He said. Fort Wayne used to be the prime test Market in the nation. Manufacturers from All Over the country sent their latest products to supermarkets in fort Wayne. Years went by. Eventually fort Wayne shoppers became skillful Coupon and rebate shoppers pm the Lookout for new products. A they were trained to be new product Orie Mei Quot said Friedman. They were tuned to the cutting Edge info Good trends and no longer reprinted typical americans. The manufacturers had to go elsewhere to see if their products would sell and new testing is done in markets All through the goats fad angers groups Elkton my. Apr the growing popularity of Breeding goats with muscular defects that make them susceptible to fainting is angering animal rights groups. They say some owners intentionally spook the animals to watch them keel Over providing bizarre entertainment. A i think its really Gross. I done to see How anybody can think that a cute or enjoyable. 1 hate to see the kind of minds people can have to see this animal fainting a said Kathi travers of the american society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. Breeders contend they done to mistreat the animals. They say they like the fainting goats because they re docile and easy to raise. They also say they want to preserve the Breed. The goats suffer from Ait inherited muscular defect called Myotonia congenital. Their Muscles can lock up for several seconds in reaction to sudden stress. Some become so stiff they Roll Over on their backs with their legs sticking straight up. Some suffer lockup of Only their legs and can hop along like rabbits. Cathy Anne la incl of Dover del., has had two of the goats for about a year and has Only seen them faint twice. She said she does no to encourage it. �?o1 would be very much against it if 1 saw it in a fair or something a people making their goats faint a la incl said. Quot its not a Freak show to be put in front of a crowd and make them Lisa a. Landres a Field investigator with the humane society of the United states said she attended several exotic animal auctions last year and found that fainting goats appear to be increasing in popularity particularly in the Midwest. A these poor goats Are being used for entertainment purposes. It is a form of abuse. Part of the attraction is scaring them and getting them to keel Over a she said. The International fainting Goat association sponsored a fainting Goat contest at the International Goat Days at Millington Tronu psf september and gave a $1,000 prize for what the group s newsletter described As a the Goat that faints the fastest and stays Down the Ruth Prentice of Terril Iowa said members do Trot spook the goats of r fun a because that would be cruel but she added a it is fun to see them when they go the humane society s Landres said the a Oceon. Shows and contests Are not the Gal a what we can do is educate people Nofi to Purchase these goats and not participate in any events these animals Are involved in and not to Parro Cibe any facilities or institutions that display Friang goats a Landres said. Kathy Majews Sci. President of the american Tennessee fainting Goat association disputes accusations that breeders abuse the animals. The association. Which has More than 2fll> members Pumi specs a newsletter called a the nervous news a. A we started out to save the Breed from Erin Cicat and it still is our goal said Majewski. Who Kves in this northeastern Maryland town. The to o Goat associations say the origin of the animals has been traced to the ts80s, when they a Sec were described in Tennessee. Myotonia congenital is an inherited muscular said or. David m. Sherman associate professor at the Tufts University school of veterinary Medicine in North Grafton. Mass. The defect is similar to Thomsene a Myco Qixiu a humans and fainting goats have been used or. The research of the disease he said. People suffering from the disease can a Csc fee two to three minutes in reaction to stress he said. But neither goats nor a Means lose consciousness when they faint and they remain aware of their surroundings Sherman said. Maj Jewski a a a it ski rays her rss. At her Stem it est my teen Ager pleads guilty in 2nd fatal shooting Santa Ana Calif. A a teenager who accidentally shot and killed a Friend four years ago pleaded guilty monday to second degree murder in the similar shooting of another schoolmate. Richard Bourassa is of Anaheim Hills tearfully entered the plea just before jury selection was to begin in his trial for the death of Christian Wie Depuhl 17, defense attorney Edward Hall said. Bourassa pleaded guilty at the last mine c to spare his family and the victim s family from a trial. Hall said. 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