August 2010

Check the fridge, Texans, and make sure you don’t have any Lucerne or Albertson eggs with the dates and lots enumerated in this U.S. Food & Drug Administration recall notice, because people have been getting Salmonella poisoning from eating them. The eggs were sold to a bunch of national food wholesalers and have spread nationwide. [...]

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As a public service to all of our snake-owning readers, we present the following Food & Drug Administration alert regarding nationwide reptile food producer MiceDirect of Georgia: The FDA is actively investigating positive Salmonella findings in frozen mice and environmental samples taken at the company’s Cleveland, Ga. plant. After it was informed of the positive [...]

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Don’t Be Ashamed Of What You Got

by bdunn on August 9, 2010

in Economics

My wife and I are exploring new ways to save money as, I suspect, are many other couples living in the Economic Outback of America. We hope and pray that prosperity shines its golden light on our family soon, but make layers of contingency plans against the worst, given the lack of evidence that either [...]

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Drying Figs: The Sequel

by bdunn on August 7, 2010

in Fruit

Many of the recent visitors to this web site, so the stat files show, are searching for that burning question How do I dry figs? Who am I to blow against demand? And so it is like this: Drying figs, and slices of many other types of fruit, is an easy and inexpensive way to [...]

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Just thank the Lord that the brave U.S. Food & Drug Administration inspectors are out there on the greasy Gulf front lines, using all the impressive technology and science at their command to strike just the right balance between putting poor shrimpers and fishermen back to work, yet making sure no one catches cancer from [...]

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