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Organic don’t mean much, except profits for retailers
The $35 billion U.S. organic-food industry has nearly tripled in size in the past decade, challenging the Agriculture Department’s ability to monitor the more than 25,000 farms and other organizations...
View ArticleBullshit alert: Canadians sickened at Cuba resort, told everything is fine
Many Cuba-bound Canadian travellers are pissed – and barfing — saying they want no part of visiting a resort that is the focus of a Global News investigation. As Sean O’Shea reports, travellers say...
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The Men Who Stare at Goats: University of Alberta edition
According to wiki, which is always right, The Men Who Stare at Goats is a book by Jon Ronson concerning the U.S. Army‘s exploration of New Age concepts and the potential military applications of the...
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This is how bad Whole Foods sucks at food safety
Whole Foods just don’t get it. According to Stephanie Strom of the New York Times, when U.S. Food and Drug Administration types asked for proof the company had fixed potential Listeria problems, Whole...
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7-minute abs, not 6: Shortest bullshit workout possible
Gretchen Reynolds of the NY Times writes that super-short workouts are a favorite topic in this column. I have written about seven-minute, six-minute, four-minute, and even one-minute workouts. They...
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Impossible Burger, regulatory gaps, and money. Always money
I want hamburgers temperature-verified to 160F. Blood is a terrible indicator. Stephanie Strom of the NY Times writes that one of the chief selling points of the Impossible Burger, a much ballyhooed...
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Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop called out for unsubstantiated and deceptive health...
Anyone who likes Coldplay enough to marry the front man is immediately suspect. Because Coldplay really, really sucks. So does Goop. Gwyneth Paltrow‘s lifestyle advice for the richly insecure and vain...
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Posers: UK holidaymakers warned with prison if they fake food poisoning on...
A bout of food poisoning is the preferred excuse for celebrities too hungover to perform (see the celebrity barf section of barfblog.com). But now, the country whose contributions to international...
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Foodscan 3000 way better than Foodscan magic potion version
Introducing the Foodscan 3000, which is way better than the Foodscan 2000 — or at least by a thousand — and completely blows away the Foodscan 1814. According to a press release from the Israeli-based...
View ArticleUK doctor, 47, is struck off after he made £72,000 signing more than 400...
Henry Martin of the Daily Mail reports a UK doctor who made £72,000 signing more than 400 bogus sick notes for his wife’s legal firm has been struck off the medical register. Dr Zuber Bux, 47, filled...
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