It’s settled Menu Foods Inc and other pet food companies involved in last year’s massive recall and resulting scandal have agreed to settle with pet owners for $24 million. (Reuters)
A penny a pound Burger King and Coalition of Immokalee Workers reached an agreement, too– one that will earn tomato pickers an extra penny a pound, their first wage increase in twenty years, effectively ending what has been a long and bloody campaign, one that found Burger King spying on the CIW and affiliated activist group, the Student/Farmworker Alliance, and embroiled, if you will, in a “secret blog” scandal reminiscent of the Whole Foods Rahodeb debacle.
Sustainable stimulus Have you received your piece of the “economic stimulus” pie yet? See where all that money’s going (and share your own story, if you are so inclined) at howispentmystimulus.com. This one is our favorite.
Let them eat foie gras The windy city has lifted its well-publicized ban on liver from force-fed geese.
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