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Help Haiti’s Earthquake Survivors
On 1/12/2009 a devastating 7.0 earthquake hit off the coast of Haiti.  
Haiti’s first lady, Elisabeth Debrosse Delatour, reported that sadly “most of Port-au-Prince is destroyed” with thousands of buildings collapsing.

Rescue crews were racing Wednesday morning to fully assess the damage in the teeming hillside city, where toppled buildings killed and injured an untold [...]

Wrappers Feature Candy in Suggestive Positions

What’s more wholesome than hard sour candy?  Well, apparently it’s not so wholesome any more.
Haribo MAOAM sour candies are the current subject of complaints, after a father purchasing the product for his two young children was appalled to find what he described as “pornographic” images of limes, lemons and cherries romping with each other, in [...]

New Law: $1000 Fine for Food Scraps in Trash

You can expect to be fined up to $1,000 if you toss a half eaten slice of pizza in the same trash bin as an old newspaper under San Francisco’s new recycling law. In a 9-2 vote, the Board of Supervisors passed new recycling and mandatory composting rules. “Under the new ordinance,” reports the NYTimes, [...]

Nightmares Series Celebrity Chef Uses F-Word 115 times/40 Min

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Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay spewed off the f-word 115 times in the first 40 minutes of a two-hour Ramsay’s Great British Nightmare, screened on Channel 4. Media watchdog, Ofcom, claimed it had received 51 complaints about the swearing, and found Channel 4 in breech of “swearing rules“.
“The sheer intensity of the language in [...]

Monsanto Sues Germany Over GM Banned Corn

Last week, FriendsEat’s Shari Ilsen reported Germany’s Minister of Agriculture banned the cultivation and sale of Monsanto’s (MON 810 maize) genetically modified maize. In response, Monsanto has filed suit against the German government’s decision on Tuesday. A Monsanto spokesman said Germany’s action was an “arbitrary ban” that violated EU rules. “They are in conflict with [...]