5/31/2007
whocalled.us
The phone is ringing, and I don’t recognize the number, All Caller ID says is, “NAME UNAVAILABLE”. Please help me figure out who is calling and what they want
U.S. government fights to keep meatpackers from testing all slaughtered cattle for mad cow
The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease.
The Agriculture Department tests fewer than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. A beef producer in the western state of Kansas, Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, wants to test all of its cows.
5/30/2007
Don’t Mess With Our Chocolate
The corporations are trying to get chocolate redefined so that chocolate candy bars do not include real chocolate in them…Hershey, Nestlé, and other industrial candy makers petitioning the Food and Drug Administration to let them lie to us consumers about what’s in their confections. They want to be able to use no chocolate at all – instead substituting artificial sweeteners, hydrogenated and chemically modified vegetable fats, and other artificial ingredients – yet still get to call their product “chocolate.”