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Reprise of Salmonella summer [Effect Measure]It's now two and half months since CDC and US FDA declared an end to the infamous tomatoes-no-it's-peppers salmonella outbreak of last summer. The outbreak itself was even longer: 3 months. There were some 1400 reported cases but probably many more that escaped detection. That's typical for foodb... |
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Human Salmonella from pet food [Effect Measure]So we have more Salmonella contamination out and about. This one is in dry pet food. But it wasn't the pets that were getting the Salmonella: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... ... |
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How Proposition 2 Will Affect California's Chicken CagesFrom Serious Eats Photograph from roboppy on Flickr Caged chickens are right up there with gay marriage and Barack Obama on California's ballot this year. If passed tomorrow, the hot button Proposition 2, or the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act, will prohibit the "cruel co... |
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Disease on rise as food use-by dates ignoredHealth experts are blaming a serious rise in the potentially deadly disease listeriosis on people consuming chilled ready-to-eat food products that have been in their fridges for too long. Concerns about the spread of the disease have become so acute the government is planning a major food hygien... |
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Wayne Pacelle: Help Californians Pass Prop 2, the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty ActThis piece originally appeared as an Op-ed in the Los Angeles Times Oct 28, 2008 California's farm animals and consumers deserve Proposition 2's protections. Two weeks ago, video from an undercover investigation at Norco Ranch, owned by Missouri-based Moark, was released to the public showing p... |
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Patt Morrison: Two Hooves and Two Wings Up for Proposition 2I am looking at a Yes-on-Proposition 2 California campaign mailer with a picture of a piglet and the line, ''you are their only voice.'' But I am thinking of another piglet, and a hideous story out of an Iowa pig farm, an undercover video of farm hands slamming little pigs down on a concrete ... |
