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Believe It or Not...
In Kankakee, Illinois, there is an eatery called
Look, kid, you know the law. If you want to buy that milk I need to see an I.D.
Voicing his organization’s opposition to state “veggie libel laws” that protect the dairy industry from public criticism, AntiDairy Coalition executive director Robert Cohen recently wrote: “Milk products, like tobacco, are an enormous threat to the health of children...” Not one to mince words, Cohen’s latest book is titled Milk - The Deadly Poison.
Misreading the Leaves
A recent television news report run by WSAV-TV in Savannah, Georgia, claimed that 76% of the sweet tea (a quintessential Southern beverage) sampled from 25 Nashville, Tennessee restaurants tested positive for fecal coliform bacteria. While the report created a media stir, Michael Doyle, director of the Center for Food Safety and Quality Enhancement at the University of Georgia, notes the story is completely misleading. Doyle later told the Savannah Morning News that while the term “fecal coliform” sounds disgusting, “you can’t draw the conclusion that fecal coliform originated from feces” because some non-fecal bacteria—including several found naturally on vegetable matter such as tea leaves—also react positively to the fecal coliform test. “I’ve been telling my colleagues,” Doyle concluded, “we’ve got to change that name.”
What Were They Doing Eating Yogurt, Anyway?!
Okay, no one in this office advocates cruelty to animals, but you have to wonder how much General Mills had to shell out for the design of their new “skunk proof” Yoplait yogurt container. The redesign, which reportedly took ten months of intensive research, came after animal rights activists in California complained about the deaths of between two and 14 skunks who had gotten their heads inextricably caught in Yoplait containers. What a silly world.