Dog off the menu

Beijing has asked hotels and restaurants in the city to take dog meat off the menu for the duration of next month’s Olympics and September’s Paralympics.

Iron Chef Feenie has a New Home

Which is the title Cactus Club president and CEO Richard Jaffray gave Feenie when he announced last February that Feenie was joining his senior team to help “shape the restaurants’ growth and product development, creating innovative new dishes and continuously improving long-time favourites.”

They are cooking crickets!

She argued that insects can provide an environmentally positive, healthy protein and an occasional alternative to meat, if only we could tackle the yuck factor.

Ten ways for those last ten pounds

Using will power to control weight is like trying to hold your breath, he says. You can do it for a while, but then the brain takes over and demands you gulp.

Now You Have Reasons to Eat Organic

It can be scary when you think about what’s in our grocery stores: genetically modified foods, foods that contain synthetic hormones, pesticides and antibiotics, as well as foods exposed to irradiation (a form of radiation used to kill bacteria).

When is food not food, when it’s junk food

Food we eat today often bears no resemblance to the real edible stuff that our grandparents and great-grandparents ate.

Check Out Your Chewing Gum, It May Cause Cancer

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=06e4fd58-ebb9-4bd3-b239-d0f87b743155
A substance used to make chewing gum could soon be declared toxic by the federal government after an international agency found that it might cause cancer in lab rats.

Podcast: The World Today – Burma’s Ruling General

Burma’s ruling generals continue to refuse to grant visas to
international aid agency workers.
Only a trickle of aid has reached the commercial capital Rangoon close to the worst-hit areas and the junta is insisting that government officials distribute the relief supplies.

The 100-Mile Diet Wins Book Prize

The memoir, cast in the popular form of a year-long experiment, documents the pair’s effort to eat nothing but locally grown food, for environmental reasons.

Does Mikey Like It? Then It’s Not As Nutritious.

Breakfast cereals for children are less healthy than cereals meant for adults, and those marketed the most aggressively to kids have the worst nutritional quality, according to a new analysis of 161 brands.