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30March2012
TALK show callers will go bonkers with this one...the GOP
defends Pink Slime hamburgers???
Top Repubs tour beef plant
and see nothing wrong with use of ammonia to kill bacteria
(read e.coli) and treat fatty scraps before they are ground into
school lunch patties and cheap eats for a market near you. Again,
cousin, fault the media for grossing out consumer. Question: In
this nation's four food groups -- pizza, pasta, Chinese and hamburger --
will there be a plank in the August GOP convention to outlaw pizza?
Poor Whole Foods...they took a punch on this one for selling
"organic foods" found on their shelves while clearly marked
PRODUCT OF CHINA.
The upscale and pricey chain copped
a plea by saying they rely on private inspectors in China to
certify organic status. The packaging label reads CALIFORNIA
BLEND. The chain pitches "locally grown" across the nation...
but...check your packaging of stir fry, peanut butter, cauliflower,
strawberries...even sugar snap peas. Callers: Start by dumping
on lack of USDA jurisdiction for all imported foods, then search
out a farm market in your own Zip Code.
01March2012
Good news for cigarette puffers; Fed judge
snuffs out grisly labels FDA wanted on labels.
Tobacco companies objected to intent to
showcase bodies on an autopsy table, a smoker
blowing smoke through a tracheotomy hole in
his throat....those legal weed outfits contend
their constitutional rights were violated...funeral
homes can prep to receive 443,000 bodies this year...
callers may ask if cemeteries have smoking and
non-smoking plots...
Paula Deen shocked by lack of peer and public support
following her diabetes revelation...
the butter and grease
fry cook came out of the cupboard a bit late to win foodie
friends...look for her next move...she'll find someone to
ghost her "I'm Cured" book...Oprah will book her for the
OWN midnight slot... she'd be a good fit on The Chew...
What HuffPost says is, in a measure, screw all this
talk about foie gras, a cruel delicacy to many.
Huff makes a case for more crushing worldwide food
issues...blue fin tuna for one...feedlot beef...talk
issues, here's a starting point...
Organic arsenic?
Inorganic arsenic?
Talk about splitting hairs...
a Consumers Union scientist said
banning a Pfizer drug used in chicken feed is "long overdue."
FDA says 3-Nitro will continue to be sold. Start a campaign:
Everytime you buy chicken in a market, ask the counter person
if the packaged chicken was raised on the 3-Nitro carcinogen?
Blank stares will result.
Chinese vitamin plants never inspected...
Foreign drugs, medical devices flawed...
FDA alert system, circa 2001, still not working...
New FDA food-drug boss overwhelmed, make that alarmed
over agency's ability to monitor stuff coming into USA;
too many ports of entry, too few inspectors; China
authorities "in many instances" refuse to cooperate as
they continue to ship in "counterfeit" ingredients;
Obama backed tough enforcement, but GOP senate
refused to fund food cops..
21JUNE2011
Fifty six diners made ill after meal in Ohio eatery;
law firm specializing in food-poisoning litigation
takes case after woman dies; salmonella blamed;
restaurant already has settled five other potential
claims...Marler Clark, a Seattle law firm has the case...
www.marlerclark.com
29APRIL2011
New food safety problems popping up in China...
Diseased pigs used for bacon; corn used to make noodles...
rotten meat used to make sausages; pork sold as
"Tron blue" because bacteria made it glow in dark...
tainted food scandals so numerous the government
has lost control...and, yes, China food exports
find happy market shelves in the USA. Can we talk???
29APRIL2011
Get out your Muggers Express card...
Our State Department tallied 111 Americans killed
in Mexico in 2010...mostly near the border...
If your travel plans call for vacations or business
in Mexico, that taco government said 15,000 of
its citizens were knocked off...but the good news
is that most were gangsters...bad guys, druggers...
Comforting, isn't it???
101 Best Restaurants in America???
Talk about a debate issue in this country...
The only reason we pass this along is the editor/compiler,
Colman Andrews...highly respected when it comes to
restaurants and the food on the plates...101???
Read his intro comments on the 101, but for meat
of the debate, scan down on each for the comments
of readers, there's the debate heat...example, Arthur
Bryant's in KC. Now there's a joint that invites varied
opinions. The big plus for Coleman's "best" list...he
enlisted 30 legit reviewers/critics to assist. Talk about
grist for a food TALK show... this is grist for best...
9MARCH2011
Pack your dental records if this NYTimes story is appealing...
If you go, have a valid Muggers Express secured in a zippered
belly pack. NYTimes ran a puff piece praising the food scene
in Tijuana...noting that crime has dropped nearly 40 percent in
the region...later noting that 2008 was the high mark for crime...
murders, kidnapping, drug cartels...well, all that should lure mobs
back to Caesar's for raw egg on dressed-up romain...oh, 2008
Tijuana tallied 843 murders. Kabul looks good for summer
tourism...
In New York a tub of KFC chicken may not be with a Kentucky recipe...
There's a chicken war going on in the Big Apple, one that has that old
southern tintype, Colonel Sanders, boiling and roiling in his heavenly
deep fat fryer. Afghan fry cook Abdul Haye owns a trademark for his
version of KFC...Kennedy Fried Chicken. Haye even has his own
"secret recipe" sauce. More than we need to know: NYC has more than
350 Afghan-owned chicken joints.
The most written-about health problem...apparently the least-read...
Obesity. Every newspaper, magazine, blogger, website, classroom,
comic...even the new Oprah network devotes endless energy to the
fat problem...NYC's mayor may try to ride into the White House on a
campaign to kill off fat foods. Download this link and see your future
in a yellow T-shirt. Click into the chart image at the bottom and find out
the second reason to avoid moving to Mississippi.
You are what you eat. Scary, isn't it?
Thanks to Taco Bell flap over just what is in that shell...???s are being
asked ...when Comedy Central's Colbert Report read the first of Taco Bell's
troubles after a lawsuit was filed, one of the posted ingredients...one, Colbert
said, was sand... on the required list of ingredients that element you are passing
through your alimentary canal is listed as silicon dioxide. So, the Wall Street Journal
went after the fast fooders as a bunch. Of the 20 chains contacted, most of them
declined to respond. Silicon dioxide? Ya want fries with that?
Ever wonder how Fed tax dollars are wasted?
New web probe, junket sleuth, tracks excess
spending of Uncle Sam's dollars...you're spending
for smoked almonds, hotel room massages for
two, all the travel goodies that should not be..
...get involved, be bitched off...
Food paste debate:
Huffington Post now doing food items certain
to gross out stomachs; download this only on
empty belly with close friend or med help nearby,
'mechanically-separated-meat-chicken-nugget'
that, Wikipedia notes, needs further verification...
regardless this business of Mechanical Cuisine
is with us bigtime...could be hot for TALK shows...
22AUG2010
Send in the troops:
Eggs loaded with salmonella from Iowa packer
sickens users in 10 states; family-owned firm has history
of paying heavy fines rather than cleaning up their mess
29JUNE2010
Seaweed-wrapped nuts:
China's taste for pecans
creates new markets for
US growers; pickled nuts
and sushi treatments
in 'donkey hide glue' ...
29JUNE2010
50 fattest state foods:
Fat, calorie travel guide,
vote your worst state
offerings; Grump opts
for Alaska to be atop
Avoid List, Ohio next...
Sausage biscuit bowl
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Those celebrity chefs?
Can they cook? Are
they just selling books?
Here's list of things
they won't tell you...
Credit Smart Money.
When will we learn?
We can't pronouce
the name, but FDA
says diet pill can
end all ills - DEATH
after liver damage...
Magic obesity drug?
Not so fast, some
patients lose girth,
but FDA still has
???s, says results
'underwhelming' ...
25MARCH2009
Packaged death?
Food processors
can't ident sources
as they still play
Russian Roulette
with their brands...
28JANUARY2009
Peanut Corp. flops
repeatedly when it
comes to salmonella
checks; why doesn't
FDA padlock joint?
Cute, but deadly:
Heart Attack Grill
really exists, offers
8,000-calorie burger
with warning label.
26JANUARY2009
Dirty Georgia peanut
factory has citations
dating back three
years; Isn't it about
time for lockdown?
1OCT2008
...and the Organic
Oscar goes to
Paul Newman...
...praise be ......
29SEPT2008
Brits big chocolate
factory, Cadbury,
runs up warning
flag after milk scare..
29SEPT2008
Video 'Must Read'
for those confused
by today's complex
food label listings...
28AUGUST2008
Health literacy has
Wide split between
Reporters, readers...
31AUGUST2008
Pray for Willie Mae.
Fried chicken mecca
Survived Katrina;
Damn thee Gustav...
HARD TIMES CUISINE
PASSES ON STEAK,
OPTS FOR PASTAS,
SMALLER PORTIONS
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29JUNE2010
FDA firing blanks:
Warns meat growers
on ills of using human
growth antibiotics in
animals, but who the
hell is listening...
30JUNE2010
A damn good food site:
Lots of health-related
info on what to eat;
Very commercial, take
with a grain of salt...
22March2010
Japan diets changing:
Could spaghetti replace
squid sashimi and sole
stew? Fishmongers opt
to overfish fading tuna..
22March2010
Are we ready for this?
PepsiCo scientists toy
with something called
'designer salt.' Not in
Grump's bag of chips..
22JANUARY2009
You've been warned:
CDC salmonella pod
says dump peanut
butter items until
outbreak resolved;
So much for PB&J.
This is progress?
Wall Street Journal,
now Murdock owned,
takes step backward
by dumping respected
Raymond Sokolov off
restaurant review beat..
1JULY2008
Malthus was right:
Sex, war, famine,
disease crowding
what little space
we have on earth;
Follow death throes
Health Canada alarms:
Northern neighhbors
spell out name details
on deadly Hydroxycut
items to avoid, recall,
Skull and X-bones??
Another nut alert:
First it was peanuts,
now market flooded
with pistachio recall;
Kraft alerts FDA...
Maggot mushrooms?
Sounds gross, but
glance over full menu
as approved by Feds
who need help plus
public indignation...
From NYTimes:
Finally, drug risks
get FDA attention;
bogus products
still flood market...
China deals death raps:
When you kill babies,
sicken thousands with
tainted milk in China,
go straight to gallows.
Euell Gibbons was ahead
of his time; Draw on help
of Kitchen Gardeners;
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Mexican drug wars:
Open warfare, killings,
kidnappings keeping
tourists, El Paso
citizens from crossing
into violent Juarez...
22AUGUST2008
If sushi chefs use
Carp for tuna, you've
Been had; two NYC
Teens have proof
MonkeyDish? Interested?
Hot off the Internet press...
A new, interesting inside
look at the restaurant biz
from an authoritative source.
17MAY2008
If that steak has a stench
of ammonia; if your tuna
dinner smells like a sewer,
pull up Uncle Sam's link
and read the bad news.
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