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The Marin Humane Society shut down an animal rescue group's San Rafael operations and seized 19 animals for treatment after uncovering "shocking conditions" at the center. The Milo Foundation was forced to close its adoption center and animal holding site at 2060 Fourth St. on Friday, one day after an unannounced early-morning inspection by the Marin Humane Society.Oops! Killing Pigs Not Egypt's Best Idea
Belatedly, Egypt Spots Flaws in Wiping Out Pigs By MICHAEL SLACKMAN CAIRO — It is unlikely anyone has ever come to this city and commented on how clean the streets are. But this litter-strewn metropolis is now wrestling with a garbage problem so severe it has managed to incite its weary residents and command the attention of the president. “The problem is clear in the streets,” said Haitham Kamal, a spokesman for the Ministry of State for Environmental Affairs.Biden’s Version
Biden’s Version By the Editors (National Review Online) There’s a line in the movie Dave in which a guy impersonating the president, looking for ways to cut the budget, asks his commerce secretary, “So, we’re spending $47 million so that somebody can feel better about a car that they have already bought?” It doesn’t cost $47 million to get Joe Biden to give a speech — he’ll talk anywhere, anytime, at great length, for free — and his address to the Brookings Institution on Thursday was intended to prevent buyer’s remorse. America already has bought the $787 billion stimulus package and will be paying off that bill for a very long time. Was it a good buy?Salmonella outbreak strikes 21, prompts beef recall
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – At least 21 people in Colorado and 10 other U.S. states have been sickened by a salmonella outbreak that prompted the recall of more than 800,000 pounds of ground beef, federal and state officials said on Friday. Raw hamburger associated with known illnesses in Colorado was traced to Beef Packers Inc.Nation Waits for FDA Overhaul
Agency is so understaffed, it inspects less than 1 percent of imported food Tom Costello Published April 26, 2009 by NBC News The Food and Drug Administration may be the only federal agency that both political parties agree is in desperate need of an overhaul. The FDA is so understaffed it inspects less than 1 percent of imported food.President Barack Obama is promising action, though progress has been slow in the first 100 days. His choice to head the FDA - Dr.This is outrageous
US Troops Still Dodging Deadly Showers by the Associated Press Military races to inspect more than 90,000 facilities to reduce deadly threat WASHINGTON - The military is racing to inspect more than 90,000 U.S.-run facilities across Iraq to reduce a deadly threat troops face far off the battlefield: electrocution or shock while showering or using appliances. Pfc. Justin Shults shows some of the burn wounds he received after being electrocuted in a shower facility in Iraq, in this photo taken in January in San Antonio, Texas.New Jersey: Man dies in chocolate; Camden plant may be illegal
Man dies in chocolate; Camden plant may be illegal By Matthew Spolar and Matt Katz http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20090709_Man_dies_in_chocolate__Camden_plant_may_be_illegal.html Inquirer Staff Writers A 29-year-old man died yesterday morning after he fell into an eight-foot vat of chocolate at a Camden facility that officials think may have been operating illegally. Vincent Smith II of Camden fell from a nine-foot platform as he was tossing blocks of solid raw chocolate into a 120-degree tank used to mix and melt the chocolate for Hershey's candy, according to Jason Laughlin, spokesman for the Camden County Prosecutor's Office. A coworker slammed on an emergency shutoff switch as two others tried to rescue Smith, Laughlin said, but Smith, a temporary worker, was hit by a paddlelike mechanism that mixes the chocolate.Breeders Snap at Dog Law Improvements
By Stu Bykofsky Philadelphia Daily News Daily News Columnist After a couple of decades of struggling to improve disgusting and inhumane conditions in Pennsylvania kennels, the good guys finally won last fall. Gov. Rendell happily signed Act 119 into law, which made modest improvements to the miserable health and welfare "standards" permitted under existing dog law.JOHN STOSSEL GIVES HIS TAKE ON TOUGH SUBJECTS, ON “YOU CAN’T EVEN TALK ABOUT IT,” FRIDAY, MAY 8 ON “20/20″
JOHN STOSSEL GIVES HIS TAKE ON TOUGH SUBJECTS, ON “YOU CAN’T EVEN TALK ABOUT IT,” FRIDAY, MAY 8 ON “20/20″ May 7, 2009 by J!-ENT From pregnancy discrimination laws to doing less for senior citizens, from farming endangered animals to letting athletes do steroids, John Stossel brings us his take on tough subjects in an hour-long report, “You Can’t Even Talk About It,” airing on “20/20,” FRIDAY, MAY 8 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. Reports include: America Needs to Do Less for Its Senior Citizens: Stossel reports when Medicare was created, senior citizens did not live as long, and medicine offered fewer wonderful but expensive treatments. Now Medicare is headed towards bankruptcy.Largest Recall of Ground Beef Is Ordered 2/18/08 by the Westland/Hallmark Meat Company
Courtesy of the NY Times: Largest Recall of Ground Beef Is Ordered Published: February 18, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/business/18recall.html?th&emc=th A California meat company on Sunday issued the largest beef recall in history, 143 million pounds, some of which was used in school lunch programs, Department of Agriculture officials announced. The recall by the Westland/Hallmark Meat Company, based in Chino, Calif., comes after a widening animal-abuse scandal that started after the Humane Society of the United States distributed an undercover video on Jan. 30 that showed workers kicking sick cows and using forklifts to force them to walk.
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