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Consumers Hear Only Half The Story On Food-Borne Illness
2014-03-26 04:08:00| Beef
The beef industry's goal is zero foodborne illness. My intent isnt to trivialize human disease; I fully recognize the gravity of the hospitalizations and death resulting from foodborne illnesses. However, to discuss such cases without reference to consumption is irresponsible. Of course, any effort by interests to drum up funding support is more effective if they cite 639,640 cases (the numerator) of foodborne illness, without considering the denominator and referencing that only 0.0006% of beef meals resulted in a foodborne disease. Its also important to note that not all these cases are due to pathogens that came into the final food product source on the meat. Vet's Opinion read more
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Manitowoc Tumbles: Are Cranes a 2015 Story?
2014-03-24 21:50:26| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Manitowoc has been the top-performing U.S. machinery stocks this year. Today, it's one of the worst after a Jefferies downgrade today.
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PolyCello's extended family success story
2014-03-21 19:36:00| Canadian Plastics Headlines
Repeated selection as one Canadas Best Managed Companies doesnt happen simply by maintaining best business practices. If it did, probably every third firm in the country would get the nod. Instead, it takes more...
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04.25: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
2014-03-18 02:35:19| Powells Books Events Calendar
Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio town with a change of clothes and less than 200 dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the Appalachian Trail, later becoming the first woman to hike the entire trail alone. Ben Montgomery's Grandma Gatewood's Walk (Chicago Review Press) is her compelling story — one of triumph, illustrating the full power of human spirit and determination.
04.24: Boom, Bust, Boom: A Story about Copper, the Metal That Runs the World
2014-03-18 00:36:19| Powells Books Events Calendar
Bill Carter began Boom, Bust, Boom (Schaffner) — an account of the all-pervasive presence of copper in our lives and its cost on our health, economy, and environment — with a simple personal discovery: the presence of arsenic in his own backyard garden. Carter connects the dots from his humble garden to the CEOs of the global copper industry, confronting a resource that is so vital yet which has the potential to cause horrendous and irrevocable damage to our planet and ourselves.
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