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a side of flies with your wormburger? the planet thanks you.

May 26th, 2008 · 3 Comments

From Science News:

You bite into a piece of candy and find a cricket leg. Eewwww. Or notice that raisin in a bowl of cereal has legs and wings. Bam, down the disposal it goes. Such filth in foods is supposedly illegal, but the Food and Drug Administration’s actual tolerance is far from zero. FDA rules […]

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Tags: climate · curio · environment · food · nature

cooking for engineers

May 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Are you a whiz at building popsicle-stick bridges that can support three tonnes of weight, but completely incapable of feeding yourself with anything that doesn’t come with fries and a soda? Lucky for you there’s Cooking for Engineers, a quirky recipe site designed for people with “an analytical mind.”
From the site:

Michael selected the name […]

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Tags: food · neato

the skinny on the “plastic fat” that lunched a thousand chips

May 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Yes, I know the title is cheesy. Has that ever stopped me before?
Found by Asher on divine caroline — a site I’m really starting to like — is a layman’s analysis of some of the chemicals, drugs and other heebie-jeebies in your food, by Brie Cadman:

The other day I was snacking on some bright […]

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Tags: consumer · crazy · dumb · food · opinion · writing

while haiti starves, canada culls 150,000 pigs to keep pork prices high

April 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The New York Times ran a great piece today on the world’s growing hunger crisis, with a focus on Haiti. Here’s an excerpt, because I can’t say it any better than this:

Hunger bashed in the front gate of Haiti’s presidential palace. Hunger poured onto the streets, burning tires and taking on soldiers and the […]

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Tags: food · haiti · news · sad