March 2008

We have to admit, we really don’t like doing the grocery shopping.  If we do not read the labels, we’re certain to buy something we don’t want or need.  And, if you do read the labels, it can take forever.

Reading labels also leaves us feeling stupid.  What do some of these words mean?  That’s

Now this is interesting, and somewhat ironic. 

Last June, over a quarter of 800 bicyclists in a race in British Columbia became ill from  what public health officials believe is one of the biggest reported outbreaks in this country of Campylobacter jejuni – a diarrhea-causing bacteria that is generally contracted through consumption of contaminated food

There’s a trial going on down in federal court in Tulsa that seems to have everything going for it.  Colorful expert testimony, a determined state attorney general, and some of the nation’s top food companies who appear determined to come across as just good old boys.

Robert J. Smith, who writes for the Arkansas Democrat