Month: August 2014

Sprinkled with salt and slathered with a dollop of butter is a delightful way to serve corn on the cob, but it’s certainly not the only way to prepare the husky goodness.

All around the world (corn is grown on every continent except Antarctica), corn…

In an e-mail sent today to cheesemongers and distributors, Uplands Cheese owner Andy Hatch announced they will not be producing any Rush Creek Reserve this season. The soft, washed-rind raw milk cheese is usually made with autumn milk (which is natur…

A pizza delivery man allegedly lied about witnessing a beheading near Rochester, New York to escape punishment from his boss for a late delivery.

Police from several departments spent hours Wednesday night searching for a machete-wielding man that Mason Requa said he saw decapitate a 7-year-old girl, according to WHAM.

Requa later confessed that he concocted the story because he feared his boss would fire him for taking too long with a delivery, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department.

Authorities charged him with falsely submitting an incident, a misdemeanor, according to WBTA.

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Juice cleanses may be buzzy in the health sphere, but if you’re doing them for the sake of “detoxing,” they’re actually pretty pointless. After all, our organs remove toxins just fine on their own — we don’t need to “help” them along with any special …

The world’s largest food company has spoken: Cruelty on factory farms has got to go. Nestlé is the single biggest maker of food across the globe, with dozens of widely known brands such as Dreyer’s, Lean Cuisine and Butterfinger. Today, the company announced an industry-leading animal welfare program that will eliminate many controversial-yet-currently-standard practices within its worldwide food supply chain. The announcement is the latest, and one of the biggest, in a series of actions by major food retailers, moving them away from an industrial-type production system that is callous and unforgiving toward animals.

Particularly, Nestlé’s new program will cleanse its supply chain of the following practices: confinement of sows in gestation crates, calves in veal crates and egg-laying chickens in cages; the forced rapid growth of chickens used for meat products; and the harsh cutting of the horns, tails and genitals of farm animals without painkillers. Bundling all of these reforms together, this announcement marks the most comprehensive and ambitious animal welfare program by a global food retailer to date. It builds on the enormous momentum we have created for moving away from the intensive confinement of animals on factory farms and marks new progress on issues related to the routine mutilation of animals. It also sounds the death knell for selective breeding practices that compromise the health of animals in order to achieve accelerated growth.

Nestlé is also encouraging food sustainability by promoting the global Meatless Monday movement via on-package messaging on Lean Cuisine products.

Nestlé’s policy follows dialogue with animal protection organizations, including The HSUS, Mercy For Animals and World Animal Protection. We are pleased to work with our colleagues in the field on such a major advance in farm animal welfare and sustainable agriculture. And we applaud Nestlé’s leadership for this game-changing commitment.

This article first appeared on Wayne Pacelle’s blog, A Humane Nation.

If someone gave you a cupcake, you’d probably love it, right? But what if someone gave it to you right outside a gym?

In this video from Running Late, Scott Rogowsky presents gym goers with a sweet treat as they exit and enter the facility. His prank…