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Angry Farmers Protest Against Japanese Nuke Plant Owner

Apr 26th 2011 – 7:09AM

TOKYO -- Angry farmers brought two cows to Tokyo where they shouted and punched the air Tuesday in a protest to demand compensation for products contaminated by radiation spewing from Japan's crippled nuclear plant. The 200 farmers, mostly from northeastern Japan, wore green bandanas, held aloft cabbages they said they...

Lawsuit Questioning Taco Bell's Beef Is Dropped

Apr 18th 2011 – 11:14PM
Paul Sakuma, AP

Paul Sakuma, AP

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - An Alabama-based law firm said Monday it has withdrawn its class-action lawsuit that sought to force Taco Bell to stop calling the meat it serves "beef." The lawsuit, filed in January in federal court in California, alleged that what Taco Bell calls "seasoned beef" is a meat mixture that has binders and...

Future Farm: A Sunless, Rainless Room Indoors

Apr 11th 2011 – 10:19AM
Peter Dejong, AP

Peter Dejong, AP

DEN BOSCH, Netherlands -- Farming is moving indoors, where the sun never shines, where rainfall is irrelevant and where the climate is always right. The perfect crop field could be inside a windowless building with meticulously controlled light, temperature, humidity, air quality and nutrition. It could be in a New York...

17 Day Diet: Fast or Fake? [VIDEO]

Apr 8th 2011 – 1:32PM
Alamy

Alamy

Want to Avoid Contaminated Food? FDA Has a New Guide for You

By Andrew SchneiderApr 5th 2011 – 11:25AM
FDA

FDA

Two or three times almost every week, the federal Food and Drug Administration warns that something in the vegetable bins, produce displays or coolers in our groceries may be so contaminated with dangerous pathogens that shoppers shouldn't buy it, nor eat it if they did. So how does the consumer keep up with what's being...

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Rana Florida: Creative Spaces: Creative Restaurants (PHOTOS)

Feb 09th 2012 - 08:52PM

How much will your sweetheart spend on you this Valentine's Day?

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The Great Cheese War: It Has Begun

Feb 09th 2012 - 05:46PM

The bigger the country as a military power, I theorise, the worse its cheese and associated dairy products.

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Pizza Hut Engagement Package: For $10,010 You Can Propose At Pizza Hut

Feb 09th 2012 - 04:45PM

If you and/or your love interest really like Pizza Hut (and we mean really, really like it) then you won't want to miss your chance to reserve a Pizza Hut engagement package.

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Kurt Michael Friese: Seduction by Cooking

Feb 09th 2012 - 04:33PM

There are only two human activities that involve all five senses simultaneously.

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Turkey Pot Pie -- Easy Comfort Food

Feb 09th 2012 - 03:44PM

Recently, my darling spouse reminded me that we still had 2 packages of Thanksgiving turkey in the freezer.

food News From the Web

  • 02/10/12 Why last chocolates taste better than previous ones Source: The Daily India Be it graduation from college or a last kiss, we experience these lasts with deep pleasure and affection - in fact, more than we may have felt about those places or people the day before, researchers say.
  • 02/10/12 Chocolates with Love Source: Beauty And The Dirt You simply can't go wrong with chocolates on Valentine's Day. Divine's new Valentine's Day range includes delicious dark chocolate hearts, milk chocolate hearts and white chocolate and strawberry hearts, which arte amazing!
  • 02/10/12 China investigates 'bouncing' boiled eggs Source: The Straits Times - Singapore Chinese authorities are investigating eggs which bounce after being boiled and may make men sterile, state media reported on Friday, in the latest food safety scare to hit the country.
  • 02/10/12 Central New York residents can order local beef, pork... Source: The Post-Standard - Syracuse NY Side Hill Farmers, a cooperative of livestock farmers in Madison County, is launching a local meat delivery service in Central New York. The service will allow Central New York residents can go on line and order packages of the cooperative's own beef and pork.
  • 02/10/12 A Doctor Dishes: Which "Superfoods" Are Worth the Cost? Source: SavvySugar These berries, when fresh, have one of the greatest antioxidant contents of any edible fruit, giving them one of the highest known ORAC scores.

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