Health: An exhaustive analysis found no evidence that eating saturated fat increased heart attacks and other cardiac events.
Drought: Wildlife officials in California said they will consider a plan to move millions of hatchery-raised salmon by tanker trucks to the ocean if the Sacramento River and its tributaries prove inhospitable due to the drought. Questions are being raised about the role of alfalfa, much of it grown for Asian cattle, and the production of dairy products uses a lot of water.
Fast food: How chain restaurants (in this instance IHOP)encourage customers to order more.
McDonald’s workers in New York, California and Michigan filed class action suits against the chain, as well as several franchises, for alleged wage theft violations. Another reason to pay workers more: Rising food prices might actually benefit our health.
Processing: In Atalissa, Iowa, a few dozen men with intellectual disabilities eviscerated turkeys at a processing plant in return for food, lodging and $65 a month for more than 30 years. They wereawarded a groundbreaking settlement last year.
Kentucky has become the eighth state to ban veal crates.
Supervalu, one of the country’s largest grocery companies, is joining others who are pressuring pork suppliers to stop using restrictive gestation crates for their pigs.
Sixty-eight members of Congress asked Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to withdraw a proposal that would substantially change how chickens and turkeys are inspected.
Animals: Turns out crustaceans do feel some pain. Not surprising. And for every pound of fish sold, there are four ounces of marine lifebycatch—critters that are inadvertently hauled into fishing boats or caught up in the gear of fishing fleets. Half of all the wasted fish and seafood can be traced to just nine fisheries operating off the coasts of Alaska, Florida, the Gulf of Mexico and the northeast. And hankering for hamburgers hurts wildlife.
via:http://bittman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/what-were-reading-now-15/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
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