Anthony Bourdain’s unexpected suicide cut short his popular CNN TV series Parts Un-known. Other networks rushed in to offer something to fill the void. Now, CNN has joined the fray with a series of new food/travel specials featuring Bourdain…Read More →
Ultra-processed foods makers are apparently taking a page from the ancient and despic-able playbook developed over decades by Big Tobacco to downplay the health threat posed by their products. Because of how well it worked for Tobacco…Read More →
McDonald’s top execs held a ‘summit’ in Washington DC last week. Their guest-speaker-of-honour was President Donald Trump. And he couldn’t help delivering a critique of the food. Trump remains totally disconnected from reality…Read More →
A US Federal Court this past Friday ruled US President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Tariffs are illegal. But the Tariffs saga isn’t over, yet. Trump can still appeal to the US Supreme Court. And the current crazy Tariffs remain in place…Read More →
I was incredulous when I first read the news. But once explained, the idea of all the billions of dollars involved stopped popping in my poor little brain like out-of-control fireworks. And I could just about envision the reality the Keurig’s / Peet’s merger…Read More →
Chinese scientists have declared that boiling your drinking water can remove microplastics. The idea seems sound. But do you believe the solution to microplastics is as simple as that? And what about the micros and nanos already in our bodies?Read More →
Uncertainty continues about how US bus-inesses will cope with Trump’s Tariffs as time goes by. In the short term, official economic figures show consumers have been paying a little more here, a little more there… But what happens when the dam bursts?Read More →
A team of researchers from Guangzhou Medical University and Jinan University in China have solved a problem others had declared unsolvable – how to remove microplastics from drinking water… Alas, It can’t remove what’s already in your body…Read More →