(TheFW) This Thanksgiving, millions of Americans will sit down at the table and gawk over all the goodies they are planning to cram in their gullet. The holiday might seem as familiar as singing “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” during the “Seventh Inning Stretch” or packing a finger in ice that was blown [...]
‘Mini Piglet’ is Costco’s most horrid meat abomination
By Curtis Cartier (Seattle Weekly) Feast your eyes on the Mini Piglet! This pressure-formed pig-shaped pork monstrosity is a revolution in culinary alliteration (looks and tastes like the animal it began as). And it’s on sale at Costco right now! via ‘Mini Piglet’ Is Costco’s Most Horrid Meat Abomination – Seattle News – The [...]
Electric massager recalled for strangling users to death
By Cole Petrochko (MedPage ) The FDA has issued a safety communication for the ShoulderFlex Massager because of a risk of strangulation, or other serious injury, with the device. The Consumer Safety Products Commission has received reports of one death and another near strangulation, the FDA said. The fatality and near fatality occurred when clothing [...]
‘Pssst. Hotdogs Ten Bucks Each’
By Walter Brasch (Spectrum) “Pssst.” I walked straight ahead, looking neither right nor left in a darkened alley illuminated by a half-moon. “Pssst.” I quickened my pace, but there was no avoiding the shadowy figure. “Ain’t gonna harm ya. Jus’ wanna sell ya somethin’.” I hesitated, shaking. Stepping in front of me, he shoved a [...]
Gruesome anti-cigarette labels raise questions
By Walter Brasch (Spectrum) The federal government has launched what may become one of the most effective propaganda campaigns in American history. Beginning September 2012, every cigarette manufacturer must display one of nine government-approved graphics on the top half, both front and back, of every cigarette pack. Among the warnings is a picture of a [...]
Why food kills — 80 percent of US antibiotics go to livestock
By Nicholas D. Kristoff (NY Times) Every year in the United States, 325,000 people are hospitalized because of food-borne illnesses and 5,000 die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s right: food kills one person every two hours. Yet while the terrorist attacks of 2001 led us to transform the way we [...]
Last typewriter factory in the world shuts its doors
By Nicholas Jackson (The Atlantic) Now that Godrej and Boyce, the last company left in the world still manufacturing the devices, has closed its doors, when typewriters make their way to landfills, there won’t be any new ones to replace them. With only about 200 machines left — and most of those in Arabic languages [...]
If logos told the truth
By Victor H. (DesignersCouch.org) An idea for a series with honest logos, revealing the actual content of the company, what they really should be called. via Honest logos by @Viktor | Designerscouch #thecritiquenetwork.
Vegetarian magazine defends meat photos
(AFP) A US vegetarian magazine has defended its use of pictures of meat to illustrate vegan dishes as a necessity brought about by cooking up a publication on a tight budget. “Yes, from time to time, after exhausting all options, we have resorted to using stock photography that may or may not be vegan,” VegNews, [...]
Study: Seniors who shop frequently live longer
(Medical News Today) Elderly people who shop as frequently as every day are more likely to live longer than less frequent shoppers, with men appearing to benefit more from the activity than women, according to a new study from Taiwan published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health recently. Dr Yu-Hung Chang from the [...]
