KFC Takes Profit Hit After Investigation Finds Poultry Excessively Pumped with Antibiotics

TheSun.co.uk
February 6, 2013

 

TheSun.co.uk: Reports in December found that two suppliers purchased battery chickens from farmers using excessive levels of antibiotics on their animals.

KFC has taken a pounding after an investigation found suppliers in China had provided chickens pumped full of excessive levels of antibiotics.

 

Parent company Yum Brands – which also owns Pizza Hut and Taco Bell – has been hit with a drop in profits in the wake of the [...]

Burger King tests bacon ice cream sundae while Pizza Hut serves up hot dog stuffed pizza crust

Is it even food?

Mike Adams
Natural News
Thursday, April 19, 2012

In the race to be the most offensive junk food providers in the world, U.S. fast food giants are rolling out disgusting and health-destroying menu concoctions that come close to activating the gag reflex.

Burger King, for example, is now actively testing a bacon sundae, consisting of a (processed, pasteurized) ice cream sundae with two strips of bacon shoved in it. It has all [...]

America has the saltiest food in the world – and U.S. McNuggets have TWICE as much salt as European versions

Fast food may often be high in salt, but the exact levels seem to vary based on the country you live in, according to a study published today.

Looking at fast-food menus in Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the UK and the U.S, researchers found that the same items had dramatically different salt levels in different countries.

Focusing on Burger King, Domino’s Pizza, Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald’s, Pizza Hut and Subway, the [...]

Slow Money: Getting the “Numb” Out of Numbers

by woodytasch

I sometimes wonder whether the “numb” in numbers was just waiting for the 21st century. As in what my friend Lee said to me over breakfast the other day, after a cursory discussion about the week’s stock market turbulence, “I try to keep up, but it’s pretty mind numbing.”

Within a few minutes of that remark, the following sentence came from the radio, “Investors’ are struggling to [...]

More restaurants target customers with food stamps

USA Today

The number of businesses approved to accept food stamps grew by a third from 2005 to 2010, U.S. Department of Agriculture records show, as vendors from convenience and dollar discount stores to gas stations and pharmacies increasingly joined the growing entitlement program.

Now, restaurants, which typically have not participated in the program, are lobbying for a piece of the action.

Louisville-based Yum! Brands, whose restaurants include Taco Bell, KFC, [...]

Which cities spend the most on fast food? Plano ranks No. 1 and Boston ranks last

We may love our clam chowder, our pizza, our ice cream and our fried clams. But even Bostonians, apparently, have limits when it comes to food.

A new study of which cities spend the most on fast food from Bundle examined spending data from 100 cities and found that the folks in Plano, Tex. apparently can’t get enough Big Macs. Plano ranked No. 1 in fast food [...]

Woman pulls sword at PIZZA HUT

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB Fox 41) — Police say a woman involved in an argument at a Louisville Pizza Hut raised the stakes considerably when she tried to pull a sword.

It happened Thursday night, shortly after 9 p.m. at the Pizza Hut on 7th St. Rd., near Dixie Hwy.

According to an arrest report, police were called to the restaurant after they received reports that 29-year-old Wynika [...]

Police: Campus gunman tried entering MO Army base

ROLLA, Mo. – A gunman tried to break into a Missouri Army base Thursday and fired on police who pursued him before crashing a vehicle at a nearby university, which went on lockdown after he was seen entering a campus building, officials said.

The Missouri University of Science and Technology campus remained locked down at midday as the search continued for the man, who fired shots near campus but apparently not [...]

Shocking! Pizza shop worker tells robber he can’t hand over money — because he was just robbed!

Two robbers hit three pizza restaurants Sunday night, pointing a handgun at employees and forcing them to hand over cash from registers and safes, police said.

Tulsa Police Sgt. Dave Walker said the men robbed Domino’s Pizza at 2604 S. Harvard Ave. about 9:15 p.m., Papa John’s at 5111 S. Harvard Ave. about 10:15 p.m. and Pizza Hut at 7121 S. Memorial Dr. about 10:45 p.m.

In all three of the armed [...]

Let’s get back to this real world:

Closing down..

July 22 , 2010

Kessler Jewelers in BurbankCa.
Update: Armed Forces Military Museum in Alton IL
Capitol Clothing Co in Downtown Sacramento CA

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July 21 , 2010

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The Melting Pot of Naples FL

Palmetto Health Child Development Center ( Child Care ) in Columbia SC

ER at North Valley Medical Plaza in Sequatchie County

Update: All 87 Liz Claiborne Outlet Stores

Oregon Trail Store in Meacham

Security State Bank Closing Branch [...]