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The little piggy went where?
Eschewing going to market, staying home, having roast beef or none, this little piggy will make you sick, might even kill you.
This thought is what the pork industry is up in arms about. Calling the latest influenza outbreak “swine flu” has pork farmers …
OK, that last peanut thing was bad enough. In fact, it was very bad. Now, in case you haven’t checked the news within the last day or so, it’s pistachio nuts. The little puppies, at least those distributed by the California processor Setton Farms (a subsidiary of …
A COOL government agency? Well, kind of. They’re acronym-ing it up over at the Department of Agriculture. You know, the folks in Washington who are in charge of the safety of our food.
COOL stands for “country of origin labeling”: a food labeling requirement that — …
Consider: E. coli in green onions, spinach, and ground beef; melamine in infant formula and powdered milk; and salmonella in peanut butter and the myriad of other food products peanuts are added to.
What’s next — steel shavings in apple pie? America’s food-safety net isn’t a net at …
Let’s give a cheer for Rusty Coho. Mr. Coho is the co-founder and co-owner of Jason’s Deli , a chain of some 200 US sandwich shops. Surely you’ve dined there. Or at least driven by.
The enterprise, which was founded by Coho and Joe Tortorice Jr. in …
OK, so Starbucks is busy telling Wall Street and Main Street — that’s all of us caffeine-deprived Christmas shoppers who can’t even afford to spend a measly $10 each on presents for our siblings this year — how it’s going to up its sagging coffee …
Ever see the movie Fantastic Voyage? Really, really miniaturized people floating around in the blood stream, sent on a mission to save some poohbah’s life. Great for a science fiction plot. Now it’s great for reality too, in the form of nanotechnology. Really, …
