“Our entrées are prepared using a chicken base; we do not offer vegetarian meals.” Wow. “Chinese” food with NO veggie options. Awful. [via vb reader GoGMU]
It “may contain an undeclared milk protein.” I’m hoping this is in the “processed on the same equipment as” situation and not an actual, intended ingreident.
“Empty shelves in the dairy section of grocery stores across the country have not seen a shipment of butter for days…” Hey, sounds good to me. [via Consumerist]
Union chief Stan Painter said that following a mad cow disease scare in 2003, he […] was told to drop the matter, and […] then placed on disciplinary investigative status.
Wow — not only do McDonald’s French Fries contain beef flavoring, they now contain milk as well. THEY’RE FRENCH FRIES, YOU BIG DUMMIES! [via Speedbump Kitchen]
“The frozen, pre-browned, raw products were labeled as “precooked” and therefore do not provide proper preparation instructions. These raw products may appear fully cooked.” Yum!
Sad interview with a former Tyson slaughterhouse worker. Also sad is the quote from the writer at the end: “I would never advocate vegetarianism as a one-size-fits-all solution to this problem…” [via VO]
Check out how old those spices in your spice rack actually are. While I don’t buy the “discard after six months” mantra, I think those that are 15+ years old should probably go.
I am *so* glad to hear I’m not the only one that loves the unhealthy, slurping-sound, canned cranberry jelly. Here’s a healthier version, thanks to VYY.
A very thorough investigation by VRG into what various egg certifications do and don’t mean. Not a single one addresses the killing of male chicks (and no, AWI, more humane euthanasia doesn’t count).
It’s not the heat and the humidity that killed them, cows do fine when they have room to walk and shade to lay it. It’s the feedlot environment that caused these deaths.
“But my basic feeling is that until children are old enough to know what an unholy pain it is to cook and clean and shop and plan for all a family’s meals under normal circumstances, day in, day out, week after week, they’re too young to have “dietary res
“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to eat Veggie Booty flavor of snack food, marketed by Robert’s American Gourmet, due to possible contamination with Salmonella Wandsworth, bacteria that cause gastrointestinal illness.”
“The Times has not presented another view, or anything, on veganism on its op-ed pages for 16 years. There has been scant news coverage in the past five years. There is another side.” The Times owns up. Nice. [via Taste Better]
First Herbivore and now Food Fight. Is there a Portland conspiracy against vegan-owned doors? Go buy some things from Chad and Emiko to help pay for the door.
A short documentary about a small-scale chicken farm. A review states, “It’s also pleasant to witness chicken ‘harvesting’ that isn’t filthy, foul or rife with brutality.” How can it not be rife with brutality when there’s death involved?
“Tiny bits of protein extracted from a 68-million-year-old dinosaur bone have given scientists the first genetic proof that the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex is a distant cousin to the modern chicken.” We could never factory farm a Tyrannosaurus rex.
A San Jose-based egg producer is trying to build a poultry farm that will house up to 900,000 chickens on unincorporated farmland near an animal sanctuary. There are plenty of opponents, to be sure.
A goldfish tank… in a deep fryer. “Because oil floats on water, despite the massive heat (163 degrees Celsius) the goldfish simply stay away from the surface and all is well.” [via BoingBoing]