Starbuck’s is offering a bear-shaped cup as a Holiday merchandise item. But the move backfired when the ‘collectible’ went viral, triggering long lines, fights and $300 online resale asks. Just adding to the coffee shop’s recent troubles…Read More →
Last Friday, US President Donald Trump told reporters he had made major inroads on his campaign promise – since echoed many times in his public addresses – to lower food prices. But observers say, his ‘plan’ to achieve that doesn’t make sense…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 →
The notion that chickens – both those used as laying hens and those intended for eating – deserve better, more humane living condi-tions is not a new one. Thus it was that the ‘cageless’ movement hatched. Now, Sweden has stepped forward as a global leader…Read More →
Doctors have long known – and warned – that drinking and pregnancy don’t mix. But now there’s more – and more-definitive – proof of that old caveat… And oddly, the latest study found that drinking heavily increased the risk of unwanted pregnancy…Read More →
Photo, below, is not yours truly. But it cer-tainly represents the way I feel today. The older I get, the stronger a flu magnet I be-come. And I’m back in the dumps, probably with the latest COVID strain going around… We’ll just try to cook our way through it!Read More →
Tell it to Trump, and he’ll probably prefer not to believe you. But farmers are now starting feel the results of the US President’s tariffs and mass foreign worker deportations in their own fields. Thousands are on the verge of losing millions…Read More →
Conventional wisdom regarding the associ-ation of diet and exercise with weight loss and maintenance dictates that a combination is required to achieve desired results. Not necessarily so, says a new Duke University study.Read More →