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Hot dogs as lethal as smoking cigarette -- health group

Thu, 28/07/2011 - 16:44 by Jamie Anderson

If you thought only smoking cigarette was bad, then hold on. Eating hot dogs is equally dangerous, says a Washington D.C. based medical group.

Carnival Cruise Lines: No 'Spam-cation'

Fri, 12/11/2010 - 10:43 by Prince damin

San Diego -- Carnival Cruise Lines said Thursday although Spam was among the food items delivered to the stranded Splendor, the canned meat was not served to guests.

"Despite media reports to the contrary, Carnival Splendor guests were never served Spam!" Carnival said on Twitter.

The U.S. Navy Tuesday delivered food items to Splendor that Carnival ordered in the wake of the ship's four-day shutdown after an engine fire. Photos of Navy helicopters dropping crates of Spam sparked the term "Spam-cation."

"We gave our food order to a supplier, not the Navy. The Navy kindly delivered the goods, (and) Spam was not on the list," Carnival spokesman Vance Gulliksen told USA Today.

Cheeseburger Cocktail contains beef stock

Fri, 29/10/2010 - 01:24 by Prince damin

Toronto -- A Toronto cocktail consultancy said it created the Cheeseburger Cocktail, which contains meat, for Flor de Cana rum's National Sandwich Day event.

Flor de Cana, based in Nicaragua, sought submissions from beverage experts for Nov. 3 National Sandwich Day and the most protein-filled concoction was the Cheeseburger Cocktail, which contains a beef stock reduction, Roma tomatoes and fresh iceberg lettuce water, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.

The drink is garnished with aged cheddar frico and a kosher dill pickle.

"Carniverous cocktails are becoming the meat lover's libation," said Trevor Burnett of Tipicular Fixin's, which created the cocktail. "It's like a meal in a glass."

Stone tools used by earliest 'butchers'

Thu, 12/08/2010 - 10:17 by Prince damin

San Francisco -- Researchers say evidence from Africa shows humans were using tools to butcher meat from large animals millions of years earlier than previously thought.

Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences found fossilized bones in Ethiopia from around 3.4 million years ago bearing evidence of stone tool cut marks made while carving meat off them, an academy release said Wednesday.

The bones are the first evidence that Australopithecus afarensis, early humans, used stone tools and consumed meat.

"This discovery dramatically shifts the known time frame of a game-changing behavior for our ancestors," Zeresenay Alemseged, curator of anthropology at the academy, said.

Human ancestors used stone tools--study

Thu, 12/08/2010 - 09:55 by Priyanka

Researchers on Wednesday announced that they have come across animal bone fossils in Ethiopia that indicate that early human ancestors, to which ‘Lucy’ fossil belonged, used stone made tools to butcher meat.

Meat increases risk of bladder cancer by a third

Mon, 02/08/2010 - 18:43 by Sophie Anderson

Avid lovers of processed meat such as sausages, bacon and packaged ham run a 30 percent increased risk of developing bladder cancer, researchers warn.

Car-injured elk carved for meat

Thu, 24/06/2010 - 11:49 by Pankaj Damin

Blekinge, Sweden -- A Swedish driver who struck an elk, expertly but illegally carved a portion of meat from the animal that may not yet have been dead, officials said.

The driver was in violation of a law requiring motorists who, when they've collided with game, must tell police, who in turn inform a local hunter responsible for tracking down the animal to end its suffering, The Local reported Wednesday.

"To violate game in this way in unprecedented. I am lost for words," said Mikael Lundin, a hunter who tracks down injured animals. "This is a case of very low moral fiber, of butchery and pure theft."

Lester's smoked meat recalled in Canada

Thu, 17/06/2010 - 10:41 by Pankaj Damin

Ottawa -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency announced the recall of Lester's-brand "Montreal Smoked Meat" because it may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

The CFIA said Lester Foods Ltd. of Laval, Quebec, reported the affected product displays a "Best Before" date between "10JL16" (July 16, 2010) and "10JL24" (July 24, 2010).

The recalled smoked meat was distributed in Ontario, Quebec and Canada's Atlantic provinces.
Food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes may not look or smell spoiled but can cause listeriosis, a foodborne illness.

Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).

High vitamin B levels may lower lung cancer risk--study

Wed, 16/06/2010 - 16:24 by Neha Gupta

High levels of vitamin B in the body can reduce the risk of lung cancer drastically, reveals a novel study by European scientists.