Archive for February, 2008

USDA suspends 2 federal meat inspectors

So the USDA is taking action and suspended 2 federal meat inspectors after this last recall of 143 million pounds of beef. This is interesting because it makes me think of a couple of things.

First, it looks like the USDA is doing something about the corruption in the process of inspection. Obviously someone is getting [...]

Kimchi in Space

This is a crosspost from Kat Scratch Fever

Ok, so have you heard of this? Kimchi in Space. It apparently took them a while to formulate a type of kimchi that wouldn’t be harmful. I mean first of all the smell. Wow, they have to get rid of that. Then aside from that because there’s bacteria [...]

Easter is coming up

Since Easter is coming up, I thought I’d throw out a poll for everyone to take! If it’s not listed in the poll, please comment on what you think is your favourite!

Thanks to Pandora for this current poll!

McDonald’s goes feng shui

In California, a McDonald’s tries something different, and designs it’s interior with Feng Shui way in mind. What would you think if you walked into a McDonalds, only to find all the plastic seating and tables, replaced with leather seating, earth tones, and water fixtures throughout the restaurant? It would probably give to a very [...]

143 million pounds of meat recalled

This is a crosspost from hello! Yoshi

If you read my hello! food website, you might recall that I wrote a post about the USDA inspection process being shoddy. Well, now we start the process of making up for it. The USDA orders recall of 143 million pounds of beef. From the article, But Dick Raymond, [...]

Is the USDA inspection process shoddy?

Perhaps you’ve heard of the video that was released by the Humane Society from a Chino slaughterhouse. Watching this video makes me truly sad. Now, the USDA is under criticism. No, not for the treatment of the cows (which should be under investigation already) but for allowing mistreated cattle to go through the meat inspection [...]

Get me a whopper right NOW

Have you seen the Burger King Commercials where they say they stopped selling the whopper, and that it was discontinued from the menu? You know, where they say they don’t sell it for one day and people freak out? First of all, is it that important? I realize that’s BK’s tagline, “Home of the Whopper [...]