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Rowena Mason Government experts believe there is still a risk of people contracting variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) through blood transfusions, as about 30,000 Britons are likely to be carrying the brain-wasting illness in a dormant form — double the previous estimate. They warn the current total death toll of 176 from vCJD could rise more than five-fold as the infection has not been wiped out of the blood supply [...] 1,293,625 have signed. 1 million in just 36 hours! Let’s get to 2,000,000 Posted: 12 April 2013 McDonald’s Corp (MCD) said on Friday that January sales at established restaurants around the world fell 1.9 percent, a steeper decline than expected as fast-food chains fight for diners. … McDonald’s expected sales and profit growth to be under pressure in the near term, as diners spend cautiously due to lackluster economic growth in most major markets. At the same time, the leading fast food chain is comparing against strong results from [...] Tests on Findus beef lasagne have revealed that some of the ready meals were made entirely from horsemeat. Findus analysed 18 of its beef lasagne products and found 11 meals contained between 60% and 100% horsemeat, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) said. There is no evidence to suggest the horsemeat found in the Findus beef lasagne is a food safety risk, the FSA said. However, the agency has ordered urgent tests on the lasagne [...] Subway promises sandwiches which ARE a foot long after investigation revealed products came up shortAssurance comes just days after two New Jersey men filed suit charging the restaurant was shortchanging customers on the size of its sandwiches Subway restaurants is now saying it will live up to its promise of a foot-long sandwich. Days after two men filed a lawsuit contending the world’s largest fast-food chain was skimping on its sandwich size, the company said it regrets ‘any instance where we did not fully deliver on [...] Subway have finally responded to international criticism that their footlong sandwiches only appear to be 11 inches long. But their reply won’t win them any new fans, as they claimed that the word footlong is a ‘registered trademark as a descriptive name for the sub’ and ‘not intended to be a measurement of length.’ A man in Australia started uproar on Tuesday when he posted a photo on the company’s Facebook page [...] Via Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog, Here’s something crazy to think about. Roughly 200,000 people were born today. That’s net world population growth, births minus deaths. Each one of them constitutes a new mouth to feed. And when they come of age, those 200,000 people will consume, conservatively, about 1,250 Calories per day. Collectively, that’s 91.25 billion Calories per year for the entire 200,000 people that were born today. Where will they get that [...] Burger King says its third-quarter net income fell 83 percent as revenue was hurt by the stronger dollar. The No. 2 worldwide fast-food chain says net income fell to $6.6 million, or 2 cents per share. That compares with $38.8 million, or 11 cents per share, last year. Net income excluding one-items totaled 17 cents per share. http://www.startribune.com/business/176233951.html?refer=y&refer=y&refer=y From Zero Hedge: So the Fed is pinning its hopes on stimulating the economy via the wealth effect again, as it did when it revived the post-tech-wreck asset bubble in housing and credit in that now infamous 2003-07 period of radical excess. But here’s the rub. While there is a wealth effect on spending, the correlation going back to 1952 is only 57%. But the correlation between spending and after-tax personal incomes is [...] In a push to sell more fries and Big Macs round the clock, McDonald’s is increasing its monopoly of the fast food sector further by launching breakfast as a late-night meal. A new program in selected restaurants, imaginatively called ‘Breakfast After Midnight’, is offering breakfast staples such as Egg Muffins, Sausage McMuffins, fruit and maple oatmeal and breakfast burritos in the wee small hours. And a marketing campaign targeting late-night eaters using [...] “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day,” an event Wednesday in which supporters converged on the fast-food establishment to back its chief executive’s controversial stance on gay marriage, is not the end of the controversy. Gay rights supporters are planning a “National Same-Sex Kiss Day at Chick-fil-A” on Friday. As part of the event, couples are encouraged to go one of the chicken restaurant’s locations and take a photo or video of themselves kissing. “Let’s show Chick-fil-A thanks for [...] The Chicago Republican Party announced last week it would file a complaint with the Illinois Department of Human Rights and Attorney General Lisa Madigan over the discriminatory action by Alderman Proco (Joe) Moreno against the food chain Chick-fil-A. The party is now expanding their complaint to cover Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel as well. According to a press release, the Chicago Republican Party says that “the complaint states that the Alderman and the Mayor have broken civil rights [...] Who would have thought that the earth beneath our feet could be to blame for health woes ranging from heart disease to thyroid problems to cancer? Yet that’s the view of some experts who say levels of selenium, a mineral essential for good health, are so low in British soil that it’s affecting the food chain, our diets and, ultimately, our risk of disease. The body uses selenium to make ‘selenoproteins’, which [...] Chick-fil-A COO Dan Cathy said in explosive interview that company is only supportive of heterosexual family values The fast food chain Chick-fil-A has long been suspected of having an anti-gay agenda, and this week, the company’s COO has decidedly come out on the side of [...] The fast food chain Chic-fil-A has long been suspected of having an anti-gay agenda, and this week, the company’s COO has decidedly come out on the side of the ‘biblical definition of the family unit.’ Dan Cathy, the president of the multimillion-dollar empire said in an interview with the conservative paper Baptist Press that his company is ‘very much supportive of the family,’ but only when it involves heterosexual couples. ‘Well, guilty [...] Serving tuna with a Geiger counter The finding reported last week that bluefin tuna caught off southern California carried low levels of nuclear radiation from Japan was another signal the world’s food chain could be compromised. [...] An ocean and a continent away [from Japan], the premier New York City seafood restaurant Le Bernardin now refuses all fish from Japan, while using a Geiger counter on [...] A McDonald’s worker has lifted the lid on what it is really like to work at the restaurant chain in a candid and hilarious Internet conversation. The unnamed man claims that some staff deal marijuana from the parking lot and that if somebody comes in high they will ‘practically give you free food’. Burgers and chicken are left to stew for ‘hours on end’ whilst staff moan about having to make Happy [...] Serving tuna with a Geiger counter The finding reported last week that bluefin tuna caught off southern California carried low levels of nuclear radiation from Japan was another signal the world’s food chain could be compromised. [...] An ocean and a continent away [from Japan], the premier New York City seafood restaurant Le Bernardin now refuses all fish from Japan, while using a Geiger counter on [...] Source: Red Ice Creations For several years now there has been a dramatic loss of bees in Europe and North America. As many as 50% to 90% of the bee populations have simply vanished. This is a big deal. Bees are a keystone species – they are vital to the food chain on our planet. An Burger King announced that all of its eggs and pork will come from cage-free chickens and pigs by 2017 causing a whopper of a shift toward more humane treatment of animals. The decision on Wednesday by the world’s second-biggest fast-food restaurant raises the bar for other companies seeking to appeal to the rising consumer demand for more humanely produced fare. The decision by Burger King, which uses hundreds of millions of eggs [...] Of all the places for a cow to escape McDonald’s must be near the bottom of the list. But that is exactly what Darcy, a dairy cow, did last Friday – gaining her celebrity status in the Colorado town of Brush. In what her owner’s says was a bid for attention Darcy broke free from her pen and hoofed it half a mile down the road to the local fast food chain. Read [...] McDonald’s just reported its first quarter financial results this morning. The global fast food chain generated $6.54 billion during the period and delivered earnings per share of $1.23. Global comparable sales increased 7.3 percent.
While the top and bottom line came in line with analysts’ expectations, there are plenty of facts about the company that you may find completely unexpected. The restaurant giant has grown through the recession and recovery. Which makes sense since it [...] From FT:
Brazil’s lower house of Congress is to hold a public hearing over allegations that fast-food chain McDonald’s broke the country’s constitution by paying staff less than the minimum wage. Lawmakers are due on May 10 to discuss claims that McDonald’s reduced workers’ pay outside peak hours, resulting in wages below Brazil’s minimum monthly salary of R$622 ($340), the lower house said on Tuesday.
“There have been situations where the worker receives less than the minimum [...] Jonathan Benson Early last year, leaked documents obtained by a Colorado beekeeper exposed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency‘s (EPA) illegitimate approval of clothianidin, a highly-toxic pesticide manufactured by Bayer CropScience that the regulatory agency knew was capable of killing off bees (http://www.naturalnews.com/030921_EPA_pesticides.html). Now, a new study out of Purdue Universityin Indiana has not only confirmed, once again, that clothianidin is killing off bees, but also that clothianidin’s toxicity is systemic [...] By Todd Harrison NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The stock market is never wrong and prices are the ultimate arbiter of variant financial views. As that dynamic is an ever-changing verdict, the bulls will argue that European policymakers have successfully navigated the sovereign sequel to the first phase of our financial crisis. See Minyanville’s “Five-Step Guide to Contagion.” They are also quick to note the difference between “drugs that mask the [...] (Telegraph) McDonald’s, the fast food chain, announced a record annual turnover of $27bn as it continued to win market share around the world and vowed to open 1,300 new outlets this year. The company, which has enjoyed a stellar few years following the economic crisis, said that its turnover had increased by 12pc to $27bn, with net income increasing 11pc to $5.5bn. This is the ninth consecutive year that sales have increased [...] Wolf Richter www.testosteronepit.com Though practically every car sold in the US today contains Chinese-made components, the announcement that a few Chinese-made cars would arrive in Canada raised a lot of eyebrows. It would be a Honda Fit assembled in the same plant where the European version, the Jazz, has been built for years. But Chinese-designed and branded vehicles have not made it yet. Chinese automakers, of which there is a whole slew, are [...] Image: NetEase After melamine-tainted milk, drainage oil, fake eggs, colored Mantou, “lean meat powder” pork, shrimp washing powder etc., etc., China recently introduced another food “innovation” in Changsha, Hunan Province – garbage beef. Cattle live on garbage in a landfill till they are old enough to be butchered and served on the dinner table. Netizens teased that these cattle are as strong as the Chinese: immune to all kinds of food poisoning.
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