Food For Thought – Wednesday, January 20th

Here’s some food for thought for today…

• Dear Europe, we are getting ready to call bullshit on your hypocrisy. If you can inhumanely kill horses for meat, then don’t pass judgments on Canadian Inuit for killing and eating seals.
• How long do Twinkies really last? Not forever, as it turns out.
• The story of a happy cow. In case you needed more incentive to search out grass-fed meat and dairy.
• Kraft wins in the war to take over Cadbury – Cadbury workers worry if they’ll still have jobs.
• Mario Batali and Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio are involved in a documentary about hunger in the USA.
• While dried fruit has its place, it can’t replace the real thing.
• Without beer, I’m nothing – how suds and civilization go hand in hand.
• Give me butter or give me death – Clarissa Dickson Wright sings the praises of the golden spread as there is talk in the UK of banning the stuff.
• Remember how we all freaked out about the chemical pesticide Alar on apples in the early 90s? 20 years later, it’s still there, even though it hasn’t been used since then.
• Exactly what fish is it that you’re eating? Possibly not what they told you it was at the fish counter.