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The Not-So-Happy Meal: What's Really in Fast Food?-OH!Gross!
Offbeat  (tags: food, culture, society, safety, ethics, protection, risks, safety, investigation )

Suzybell
- 84 days ago - current.com
The real story behind every perfectly round patty and golden fry is something the fast food industry would prefer you not know. From the processing plants where cow manure gets ground into meat to the chemistry labs that create fast food flavors such as
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When the Catfish Stirs
Offbeat  (tags: Japan, earthquakes, prevention, risks, interesting )

Michelle
- 147 days ago - economist.com
Earthquakes, and the preparations for them, are metaphors for Japan's malaise
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Sign Up: USDA June 29th Deadline to Halt GE, Drug and Industrial Chemicals in Food Crops
Offbeat  (tags: GMOs, GE food, GE crops, Obama, USDA, pollution, politics, science, environment, Sustainabililty, organic, eco-friendly, healthy, food, family, protection, interesting, society, abuse, nutrition, prevention, risks, cancer, NewTechnology, medicine )

Abc
- 171 days ago - examiner.com
Many social welfare, health and environmental organizations are asking Americans to sign up before June 29 to halt the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) proposed rule which will significantly weaken the regulation of Genetically Engineered
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CHINESE ADMIT FEEDING PRISONERS TO TILAPIA
Offbeat  (tags: 'CIVILLIBERTIES!', 'HUMANRIGHTS!', freedoms, humanrights, Refugees&Relief, violence, ethics, death, crime, food, illness, prevention, safety, risks, study, treatment, warning, odd, bizarre, culture, food )

Suzybell
- 226 days ago - satirepatch.blogspot.com
THOSE TASTY AND BUDGET FRIENDLY FROZEN TILAPIA PACKS WE ALL GET AT WALMART are the perfect grocery item, it seems. Fish is good for you, and the price is right. However, most people probably do not realize that part of the good deal involves workers at C
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Health Officials Inspect Conover Domino's--VIDEO
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, health, prevention, interesting, protection, illness, environment, government, nutrition, risks, safety, humans, bizarre, crime, culture, odd, unusual )

Suzybell
- 227 days ago - wcnc.com
A Domino's Pizza restaurant in Conover is now open after being closed on Tuesday for sanitization. Health inspectors were back at the restaurant on 10th Street Wednesday morning. Inspectors said all food products that were previously opened and not in
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Do You Snake After Every Meal?
Offbeat  (tags: odd, off-beat, bizarre, food, NOT ME, culture, design, unusual, interesting, health, society, healthcare, prevention, risks, treatment, AlternativeMed )

Suzybell
- 290 days ago - blogs.reuters.com
I know you're an expert on oral hygiene. I brush during every meal, floss all day at my desk and eat only carrots, but I still get cavities. What can I do?How often to you snake?I beg your pardon?I'm asking how often you put a live snake in your mouth to
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Monk' Star Stanley Kamel Found Dead
Offbeat  (tags: death, disease, health, investigation, risks, actornews, 2008 )

Ginger
- 597 days ago - omg.yahoo.com
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Stanley Kamel, well known for playing Dr. Charles Kroger on the hit USA series "Monk," has died, Access Hollywood has learned.
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Child Stuck in Washer
Offbeat  (tags: news, odd, off-beat, child, freedoms, interesting, humor, Fixtures, bizarre, safety, risks, unusual )

Suzybell
- 661 days ago - cnn.com
An Ohio child needed firefighters to free him from the family washing machine. Talk about an oversized load: A 4-year-old boy got stuck when he climbed into his family's top-loading washing machine, and firefighters had to use a metal cutter to slice into
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10 Ways to Catch a Liar
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, humans, interesting, news, freedoms, design, bizarre, crime, culture, odd, safety, society, unusual, police, risks, tuning )

Suzybell
- 661 days ago - webmd.com
Experts have 10 tips that can let you know if someone isn't telling you the whole truth.So when a witness to a shooting sat in front of him and tried to tell him that when she heard gunshots she didn't look, she just ran -- he knew she was lying How?
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Spears' Manager Accused of Drugging Singer
Offbeat  (tags: bizarre, health, interesting, risks, safety, society, unusual, off-beat )

Sheldon
- 662 days ago - cnn.com
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A restraining order against the man who's been at Britney Spears' side during her downward spiral alleges that he drugged her, took over her finances and controlled the ravenous paparazzi "like a general."
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9 Accused Of Forging Super Bowl Tickets
Offbeat  (tags: news, unusual, off-beat, interesting, performance, society, sports, bizarre, risks )

Suzybell
- 663 days ago - wisn.com
Scottsdale, Ariz., police said they've have arrested nine people on suspicion of selling forged Super Bowl tickets for thousands of dollars.Authorities said the investigation began after a Massachusetts couple unwittingly bought forged tickets for $2,500
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Gunfight in Road Leaves Two Georgia Cops Wounded
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, unusual, safety, risks, news, odd, law, police, crime, performance, bizarre )

Suzybell
- 664 days ago - cnn.com
BUFORD, Georgia (AP) -- Two off-duty officers from different police departments wounded each other in a gunfight in the middle of a road in an Atlanta suburb, authorities said.Neither officer's wounds were life-threatening, police said.
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Blind Acupuncturist Takes 2nd Stab At License
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, unusual, risks, safety, interesting, freedoms, bizarre, culture, society, performance, odd )

Suzybell
- 664 days ago - wisn.com
First Application Rejected Last Year Over Blindness AUSTIN, Texas -- A blind student of acupuncture is making a second request for a license to practice in Texas.If she's licensed, she would be the first blind person to be issued a state license
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The Worst Building in the History of Mankind
Offbeat  (tags: interesting, off-beat, unusual, risks, safety, design, culture )

Dana
- 666 days ago - esquire.com
A picture doesn't lie -- the one-hundred-and-five-story Ryugyong Hotel is hideous, dominating the Pyongyang skyline like some twisted North Korean version of Cinderella's castle. Not that you would be able to tell from the official government photos of it
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What Happens to Your Body W/in a Hr. After You Drink "the Real Thing"
Offbeat  (tags: Body-Mind-Spirit, brain, diet, disease, drugs, health, heart, humans, illness, interesting, medicine, nutrition, protection, risks, safety, warning, safety, culture )

Susan
- 678 days ago - organicconsumers.org
Within the first 10 minutes, 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. This is 100 percent of your recommended daily intake, and the only reason you don't vomit as a result of the overwhelming sweetness is because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor.
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