| July 12, 2008 | -
Obama admitted that he disliked ice cream.
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YouTube
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| July 4, 2008 | -
British
studies warned that eating junk food during pregnancy might cause lasting damage to the child, and that eating too much tofu could lead to dementia.
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BBCnews.com
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BBCnews.com
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| June 29, 2008 | - Gardeners across Britain were reporting a harvest of deformed, dangerous vegetables, traced back to the Dow AgroSciences herbicide aminopyralid, which can wind up in manure. It was “scandalous,” said a woman with a patch near Bushy Park in London, “that a weedkiller sprayed more than one year ago, that has passed through an animal's gut, was kicked around on a stable floor, stored in a muck heap in a field, then on an allotment site and was finally dug into or mulched on to beds last winter is still killing 'sensitive' crops and will continue to do so for the next year.”
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The Guardian
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| May 31, 2008 | - The family of a former chemist for Procter & Gamble who designed the Pringles potato-chip can buried a portion of his ashes in a Pringles can.
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Cincinnati Enguirer
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| May 23, 2008 | - The United Nations, responding to food riots in 30 countries, said that the number of chronically hungry people in the world was expected to rise 100 million to 950 million. Japan released 20,000 tons of its 1.5-million-ton rice stockpile for sale to Africa.
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The Washington Post
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The Daily Star
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AFP
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| May 6, 2008 | -
Oil exceeded $125 a barrel. Refined french-fry grease was 32 cents per pound, up 20 cents from 2006.
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Bloomberg
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BBC
Source 3:
The Christian Science Monitor
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| May 5, 2008 | - Police in Germany discovered the bodies of three dead babies stored in a freezer in the cellar of a family home, after two of the family's older children went rummaging for a frozen pizza.
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CNN
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| April 15, 2008 | - There were riots in Haiti, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Cameroon over increasing food costs. Some blamed the rising price of corn (up 31 percent from 2005) on the burgeoning biofuel industry, pointing out that to fill up an SUV with a tank of ethanol uses as much corn as can feed a person for a year. World Bank President Robert Zoellick called for more contributions to the $500 million World Food Program. “We have to put our money,” he said, “where our mouth is.”
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The Age
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| March 28, 2008 | - The cost of rice increased by 30 percent, raising fears of unrest in rice-eating countries.
| Source 1:
FT
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NYT
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BBC
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| October 24, 2007 | - A couple in southern California was facing criminal charges for attempting to sell 375 pounds of bathtub cheese.
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Central Valley Business Times
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| October 3, 2007 | - A Thai restaurant in London was cordoned off by police after passersby mistook the smell of its extra-spicy homemade chili sauce for a chemical outbreak.
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Cape Times
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Sky News
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| September 16, 2007 | - There were reports of a restaurant in Tokyo where patrons could rape an animal before eating it. “When people have got money and done everything else,” said a lawyer who'd had the pork, “they turn toward bestiality.”
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Mainichi Daily News
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| September 1, 2007 | - A vegetable grower in Fresno, California, recalled 8,000 cartons of salmonella-tainted spinach.
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Washington Post
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| August 15, 2007 | - A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty to intentionally eating glass in over a dozen restaurants to collect insurance compensation.
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AP via SFGate.com
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| August 4, 2007 | -
Israelis fired apples, chilis, corn, cucumbers, mangoes, and tomatoes into the Gaza Strip.
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Daily Mail
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| August 1, 2007 | - A New Zealand study found that vegans are disgusted by sex with carnivores because meat-eaters are “composed of the lives of others.”
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ABC News
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| July 25, 2007 | - An Israeli study concluding that hummus stimulates serotonin production bolstered sentiment that eating the popular chickpea dip could help Israelis and Palestinians reconcile.
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Christian Science Monitor
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| July 17, 2007 | - A newborn was found in a trashcan at a Denny's in Anaheim, California; a 17-year-old girl with blood dripping down her legs was discovered nearby, having just shared a meal with her family.
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O.C. Register
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| July 16, 2007 | - IHOP, which serves more than 700 million pancakes each year, announced that it would buy Applebee's for $1.9 billion.
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IHOP
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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| July 16, 2007 | - In China, where flooding has killed hundreds of people this summer, the rampant Yangtze River had caused Dongting Lake to overflow, leading two billion rats to flee to the Hunan countryside, where there are few predators to reduce their numbers, as the snakes have been eaten by southerners and the owls have been used for medicine. Besieged farmers were poisoning the rats, beating them with hammers, and sending them, live, by truckload to restaurants in Guangzhou, where diners pay 136 yuan for a kilogram of ratmeat.
| Source 1:
National Geographic
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ABC News
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Sydney Morning Herald
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| June 25, 2007 | -
Tuna shortages were forcing Japanese chefs to consider deer and horse meat as substitutes for sushi.
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Tuna shortages were forcing Japanese chefs to consider deer and horse meat as substitutes for sushi.
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NYT
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| June 8, 2007 | - In China, a spike in the price of pork tenderloin and bacon caused people to begin eating more fish.
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New York Times
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| June 5, 2007 | - Three students were arrested in Aurora, Illinois, following a cafeteria food fight. “Milk cartons, full pop bottles, and blue slushies were flying around,” said one student. “Kids literally bought the food to throw it and, to me, that's a little expensive.”
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CNN
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| April 18, 2007 | - Restaurant owners in Hong Kong were fining customers who did not eat all their food.
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Christian Science Monitor
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| April 9, 2007 | - Researchers at the Department of Food Science at Leeds University spent over 1,000 hours testing 700 variations on the traditional bacon sandwich to find the ideal “crispy and crunchy” formula.
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BBC
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| April 5, 2007 | - XXXChurch.com, an online ministry, staged a “Porn and Pancakes” event for evangelicals in Morton, Illinois.
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CNN.com
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| April 4, 2007 | - The Food and Drug Administration proposed new labeling rules that would allow irradiated foods to be categorized merely as “pasteurized.”
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Washington Post
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| April 4, 2007 | - In Beardstown, Illinois, federal agents arrested 62 undocumented immigrants in a pork plant.
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Reuters
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| March 25, 2007 | - In the United States, crystal meth was now available in candy flavors.
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USA TODAY
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| March 23, 2007 | - And in the Mojave Desert, a wandering photographer in search of a striptease museum stumbled across an estimated acre of rotting food discarded by a food bank, including cases of eggnog and tooth whitener. “Creepy, spooky, gross, disgusting,” he said. “Filled with animals and bugs.”
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MSNBC
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| March 22, 2007 | - Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck announced that his restaurants would no longer serve foie gras, but that he would continue to slice lobsters in half without first stunning them.
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| February 15, 2007 | - A salmonella outbreak in 39 states was traced to contaminated peanut butter.
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CNN
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| January 26, 2007 | - A molecular scientist who owns a café announced that he had found a way to put caffeine in a donut.
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AP via NY Post
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| January 19, 2007 | -
United States/South Korea trade talks came to a halt after the Koreans refused to accept shipments of U.S. beef that contained bone fragments.
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International Herald Tribune
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| January 18, 2007 | -
Corn prices were at a 10-year high, leading to price-gouging by corn merchants. With more corn going to U.S. ethanol plants, the president of Mexico signed an accord with Mexican supermarket chains and bakers to cap tortilla prices.
| Source 1:
BBCnews.com
Source 2:
BBCnews.com
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| January 17, 2007 | - A freeze destroyed as much as 75 percent of California's
citrus crop. “We may have to do without guacamole for a while,” said a Pasadena resident. “And we may be drinking our Coronas without limes.”
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AP via Cnn.com
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| January 13, 2007 | - Federal agents in Missouri found two kidnapped adolescent boys in the apartment of Michael Devlin, a 41-year-old pizzeria manager. “I still feel like I'm in a dream, only this time it's a good dream, not the nightmare I've had to live for the past four-and-a-half years,” said the mother of one of the boys.
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New York Times
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| January 9, 2007 | - Capsaicin, a substance in jalapeño peppers, was said by scientists to thwart cancer by attacking mitochondria in cancer cells, triggering cell death.
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BBC
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| January 6, 2007 | -
Armenian politicians were accused of buying votes with potatoes.
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Telegraph
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| December 13, 2006 | - In Baghdad, at a gathering place for poor Shiite laborers, the owner of a truck filled with wheat announced that he was looking for workers. A crowd gathered around the truck and it exploded, killing 70 people and wounding 236.
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NYT
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| December 13, 2006 | - The Marine Corps ordered a sergeant to call off an online auction that gave the highest bidder the right to rename him; bids included “King Taco” and “Sgt. Finest Freshest Fastest.”
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NYT
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| December 13, 2006 | -
Lettuce, rather than green onions, was deemed responsible for the Taco Bell E. coli outbreak; however, suggested a health official, “it would be folly at this point to drop the cheese completely.”
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reuters
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| December 11, 2006 | - In response to the deaths of three anorexic
models, the fashion industry held a forum that called for internal regulation. “We would much rather come up with a way of self-policing ourselves,” said one modeling agency chief, “than have regulations rammed down our throats.”
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NY Post
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| December 7, 2006 | - A Christmas party in Dublin was canceled after Gus, a camel starring in Santa's Magical Animal Kingdom Show, got drunk on Guinness and ate all the mince pies.
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MSNBC
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| December 1, 2006 | - Poor Zimbabweans were happily eating dog
food.
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Institute for war and peace reporting
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| November 28, 2006 | - A “yearlong rash of nut robberies” ended when police recovered 136,000 pounds of stolen nuts with a street value of $400,000 from a warehouse in Sacramento.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 20, 2006 | - Residents of Oberlin, Ohio, were upset by the presence of gingerbread
Nazis.
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ABC News
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| November 17, 2006 | -
Deep-fried American flags were removed from an art exhibit in Tennessee.
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CNN.com
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| November 2, 2006 | -
Corn
farmers in the Midwest were resisting bids for their ethanol plants by Wall Street firms.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 2, 2006 | - Scientists claimed that at the current rate of consumption, global sea
food supplies will be obliterated by the year 2048.
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Washington Post
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| November 1, 2006 | - Bangalore, the high-tech capital of India, renamed itself “Bengalooru,” to more closely resemble the city's medieval name, “Bendakalooru,” or “town of boiled beans.”
| Source:
Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| November 1, 2006 | - In Aurora, Colorado, chubby girls robbed younger children of their trick-or-treating
candy.
| Source:
ABC 7 Denver
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| October 26, 2006 | - Sheik Taj Aldin al-Hilali, mufti of Sydney, Australia's largest mosque, compared unveiled women to “uncovered meat.” “If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside,” said the mufti, “and the cats come to eat it . . . whose fault is it, the cats' or the uncovered meat's? The uncovered meat is the problem. If she was in her room, in her home, in her hijab, no problem would have occurred.”
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Guardian
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| October 19, 2006 | -
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan collapsed from fasting during Ramadan. His security staff rushed him unconscious to the hospital and accidentally locked him in his car; they fought for ten minutes to break the car's reinforced windows with a sledgehammer and chisel.
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AFP via New York Times
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| October 12, 2006 | -
Coca-Cola announced plans to market a new calorie-burning green tea beverage called Enviga.
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NBC
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| October 11, 2006 | -
Walnut-related crimes were on the rise in the United States,.
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Appeal-Democrat
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| October 11, 2006 | - A pile of jelly left over from a wedding party's jelly-fight sparked a terrorism alert near Leipzig, Germany.
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