“WHEN DID Walmart grow a conscience?” The question, asked approvingly in a Boston Globe headline last year, would have made Milton Friedman turn in his grave. In a landmark New York Times Magazine essay, whose 50th anniversary fell on September 13th, the Nobel-prizewinning economist sought from the first paragraph to tear to shreds any notion…
Major players like the Produce Marketing Association, the United Fresh Produce Association, and Western Growers went on record in support of new organic regulations just before an official comment period ended on Oct. 5. Advancing to the final rule writing phase also appears to have the support of the broader organic community. USDA’s Agricultural Marketing…
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has reviewed the main activities of this past year which marked the agency’s 20th anniversary. The annual report covers enforcement, inspections, sampling, recalls, Brexit, and food fraud. FSAI also launched the authority’s 2019 to 2023 strategy and held a conference, “The Science of Food Safety – What’s our…
If you’ve been missing your regular barre classes due to gym and studio closures, you have an at-home option you may not have known about: barre workouts on YouTube.Yep, the same platform that gives you copious cat videos can also help you get in a good sweat—even if you don’t have a lot of (or…
CORPORATE SCANDALS occur with depressing regularity, from the accounting misstatements at Enron in 2001 to fake bank accounts at Wells Fargo, uncovered in 2016. In June Wirecard, a German payments processor, revealed that €1.9bn ($2.3bn) was missing from its accounts. What was remarkable about the affair was that the company’s book-keeping had been the subject…
The number of people sick in foodborne outbreaks declined in 2019 compared to the year before, according to the Finnish Food Authority (Ruokavirasto). A report on food safety in Finland has the results of regulatory control related to food safety, official controls and monitoring programs on food and feed, as well as research and risk…
If you have a vagina, you might want to do yourself a favor and learn the most common yeast infection causes. After all, the more familiar you are with the causes of this itchy, irritating infection, the better equipped you are to avoid them at all costs, because while you’ll probably never be 100% safe…
Editor’s note, October 6, 2020: This story was originally published in 2019. But in light of the fact that President Donald Trump’s doctor has a D.O. degree, lots of people have been curious about what that means now that Trump has announced he has COVID-19. The bottom line: In the United States, there’s a huge…
After spending three days in the hospital, President Trump yet again spread COVID-19 misinformation, this time by comparing the disease to the flu in an effort to downplay how severe the illness really is.Trump wrote that the flu causes many deaths every year, but doesn’t require us to “close down” the country. “We have learned…
Sky: Children of the Light is moving into its seventh season, introducing a set of trials and a new narrative that will delve into the villagers’ origin story. The season is available now, bringing with it a bunch of new cosmetics, expressions, and other items.The Season of Prophecy is Sky’s latest seasonal event, which Thatgamecompany…