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Resistant Killer Bugs: An Epic Medical Catastrophe Looms

  • Spence Cooper
  • July 22, 2017

We at FriendsEat, along with scores of online publications, public health experts, and consumer advocacy groups, have discussed for years the imminent danger associated with the continued abusive use of antibiotics in industrial farming. Healthy cattle and poultry are routinely injected with antibi... Read More »

Amazon’s New Futuristic 30-Minute Delivery System: Drones

  • Spence Cooper
  • October 5, 2015

Amazon envisions a future where shopping at brick and mortar stores are a thing of the past, and where Amazon's deliveries are made within 30 minutes using drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles. [caption id="attachment_144881" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Amazon's 30-Minute Delivery System Using ... Read More »

2nd Week Of Manhattan Fraud Trial in Huge Counterfeit Wine Case

  • Spence Cooper
  • December 16, 2013

Last week, Rudy Kurniawan, who accumulated one of the world's premier wine collections worth more than 50,000 bottles of the most celebrated Bordeaux and Burgundy wines of the last century, went on trial in Manhattan federal court. [caption id="attachment_145457" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Ru... Read More »

Sriracha Distribution Halted In The Ongoing Hot Sauce Saga

  • Spence Cooper
  • December 13, 2013

Sriracha hot sauce maker Huy Fong Foods just can't seem to get a lucky break. The California Department of Public Health has begun enforcing stricter guidelines for the company by freezing shipments for a month. [caption id="attachment_145407" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Sriracha Hot Chili Sau... Read More »

4 Restaurant Tips On Surviving An ICE Raid

  • Spence Cooper
  • December 2, 2013

According to QSRweb.com, a website reporting on news, events, and trends in the quick-service restaurant-industry, food service and high-tech manufacturing are among the industries being targeted for illegal hiring practices. [caption id="attachment_144837" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Immigrat... Read More »

FDA Finally Moves To Ban Trans Fats

  • Spence Cooper
  • November 8, 2013

Trans fats are created through a process called hydrogenation to enhance the flavor of prepared foods, and to improve the shelf life, but the fats have no health benefits, and are even worse than saturated fat. (Source) Trans fat can be found in some processed foods, such as desserts, microwave po... Read More »

Why Panera Bread’s CEO Agreed To Dine On Only $4.50/Day

  • Spence Cooper
  • October 29, 2013

Last year, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman took part in a local food bank's challenge to live on roughly the same amount a single person who qualifies for food stamps receives -- $4 per day.  (Source) The week long challenge was organized by Three Square Food Bank in Las Vegas. John Livingston, s... Read More »

Taxpayers Fund $7 Billion A Year To Help Fast-Food Workers Survive

  • Spence Cooper
  • October 22, 2013

When Nancy Salgado, a Chicago single mother of two confronted Jeff Stratton, president of McDonald's USA, a video of the confrontation went viral.  (Source) The video shows Stratton standing at a podium in a ballroom giving a talk when Salgado interrupted him and from the back of the room shouted:... Read More »

Why The GOVT Shutdown Could Kill You

  • Spence Cooper
  • October 3, 2013

During the government shutdown, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety Inspection Service will continue to supply meat production facilities with full-time inspectors, but the Food and Drug Administration's food safety inspection program will be halted.  (Source) The FDA ostensibly over... Read More »

IRS Cracks Down on Tips Instead of Tax Dodging Corporations

  • Spence Cooper
  • September 13, 2013

When large parties dine at the Olive Garden or LongHorn Steakhouse, it's customary for the restaurant to add a 15-20 percent automatic gratuity to the check at the end of a meal. These automatic gratuities are then later reported as income. (Source) But now, in an effort to siphon off every last dim... Read More »

Beware! USDA Approves Export of Chinese Poultry To U.S.

  • Spence Cooper
  • September 6, 2013

In a stunning development, considering China's horrendous food safety record, the USDA has approved four Chinese poultry processors to begin shipping meat to the U.S.Initially, the poultry will be restricted to cooked meat from birds raised in the U.S. But savvy USDA food policy critics know all to ... Read More »

Appeals Court Affirms California’s Foie Gras Ban

  • Spence Cooper
  • September 5, 2013

A recent federal appeals court ruling upheld a district judge's refusal to block a California foie gras law that prohibited the sale of products made from birds forced to eat abnormally large amounts of food to enlarge their livers. Foie Gras is made from fattened duck or goose liver, and involves... Read More »

New State Law Allows Miniature Horses Inside Arizona Restaurants

  • Spence Cooper
  • August 22, 2013

"Imagine how surprised you would be if you go to your favorite restaurant and see a miniature horse with the people at the table next to you. You'd think, is that actually a horse?" That's the question KJZZ's Steve Shadley recently posed in his article regarding Arizona's new state law that will al... Read More »

Seattle Cops Hand Out Doritos Chips At Marijuana Festival

  • Spence Cooper
  • August 19, 2013

A three-day marijuana festival began last Friday at Seattle's waterfront park in celebration of a victory with the state's new marijuana legalization. The event was expected to draw as many as 85,000 people per day. Vendors displayed glass pipes, tie-dyed clothing, purses and necklaces, as thousand... Read More »

Why Gay Activists Urge Boycotting Russian Vodka

  • Spence Cooper
  • August 7, 2013

In his article, "Why I'm Boycotting Russian Vodka," author and journalist Dan Savage discusses Russian President Vladimir Putin's escalating persecution of gays. Putin signed a law banning the adoption of Russian-born children to gay couples, and to any couple or single parent living in any country... Read More »

17 Food Prices That Have Soared in Last Decade

  • Spence Cooper
  • July 15, 2013

As difficult as it may seem to believe, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke recently said inflation in the United States needs to be higher. But as Michael Snyder points out, Bernanke will never admit that the official inflation rate is a total sham. The official inflation rate is a farce because... Read More »

Restaurants Hire Part-Time Workers to Dodge Obamacare

  • Spence Cooper
  • July 15, 2013

According to a recent ADP National Employment Report, published monthly by the ADP Research Institute in collaboration with Moody's Analytics, food service accounted for three out of four new franchise jobs. [caption id="attachment_108806" align="aligncenter" width="460"] Ways restaurants skip payi... Read More »

Court Forces Starbucks Baristas To Share Tips With Supervisors

  • Spence Cooper
  • July 10, 2013

New York's highest court recently ruled Starbucks baristas must share their tips with shift supervisors, but not assistant managers. CBS Seattle reports that the Court of Appeals found shift supervisors do much of the same work as the coffee servers and therefore get to share in the tips. But th... Read More »

USDA OKs Label For Meat From Animals On GMO-Free Diet

  • Spence Cooper
  • June 24, 2013

The USDA has approved a GMO-Free label for meat and liquid egg products, setting a precedent for other meat and poultry companies that want to label their products GMO-Free. The GMO-Free label verifies that meat endorsed by the Non-GMO Project originates from animals that never ate feed containing ... Read More »

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