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Bangkok, Thailand – Stewed, seasoned with sugar and cloves, deep-fried or dished up in a zingy chilli mince – the diets of most Thais are incomplete without pork. But a $3bn market – supplied nearly entirely by domestic pig farmers – may be about to face competition like never before from the giant hog farms…
Campbell’s is insisting that its soups aren’t made with 3D-printed chicken, lab-grown chicken, or bioengineered meat. The food giant issued the explanation on its website after leaked audio allegedly captured Campbell’s vice president of information technology saying the company’s meat “came from a 3D printer.” “A recent video contained false comments about our ingredients,” Campbell’s…
Thanksgiving is an interesting holiday. Some celebrate it as an American tradition. Others look at it as simply an excuse to get together with family to watch some football. And still others just enjoy getting an extra day off from work or try to ignore it altogether. But however you regard it, there are often…
NewsFeed Postcolonial scholar Mahmood Mamdani says Palestinian rights helped motivate his son Zohran’s run for New York City mayor. He says Zohran didn’t expect to win, but entered the race “to make a point” and trounced his rivals because he refused to compromise on causes “near and dear” to him. Published On 22 Nov 202522…
NGO says Swiss food giant is ‘putting the health of babies at risk for profit’ by adding sugar to babyfood. Published On 18 Nov 202518 Nov 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Swiss food giant Nestle has been adding sugar to babyfood to help it stoke sales in Africa, Asia and…
More than a thousand unionised Starbucks baristas have walked off the job in more than 40 cities across the United States as negotiations have stalled between the company and the union, Starbucks Workers United. Workers at 65 stores began an open-ended strike on Thursday, coinciding with the Seattle, Washington-based coffee shop chain’s Red Cup Day…
Oanaminthe, Haiti – It’s a Monday afternoon at the Foi et Joie school in rural northeast Haiti, and the grounds are a swirl of khaki and blue uniforms, as hundreds of children run around after lunch. In front of the headmaster’s office, a tall man in a baseball cap stands in the shade of a…
Sweet origins: Invented by Ram Asrey, balai ki gilori (or malai paan) is delicately folded like a betel leaf While the tundeys and qormas have hogged the limelight, it is the city’s subtler dishes — where spices whisper and humble ingredients shine — that truly merit new UNESCO tag a delicate ‘tikiya’, pan-fried, judiciously spiced,…
Beijing imposed a two-year ban over the discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the tsunami-hit Fukushima plant Published On 7 Nov 20257 Nov 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Japan has restarted seafood exports to China after Beijing lifted a two-year ban, which was implemented over the contentious release of treated…
Beijing imposed a two-year ban over the discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the tsunami-hit Fukushima plant Published On 7 Nov 20257 Nov 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Japan has restarted seafood exports to China after Beijing lifted a two-year ban, which was implemented over the contentious release of treated…
