“Best by,” “Sell by,” and all those other labels mean very little.
By Nadia ArumugamUpdated Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010, at 10:18 AM ET
There’s a filet mignon in my fridge that expired four days ago, but it seems OK to me. I take a hesitant whiff and detect no putrid odor of rotting flesh, no oozing, fetid cow juice—just the full-bodied aroma of well-aged meat. A feast for one; I retrieve my frying pan. This is not an isolated experiment or a sad symptom of my radical frugality. With a spirit of teenage rebellion, I disavow any regard for expiration dates.
www.slate.com/id/2244249/
By Chris Walters on November 18, 2009 3:37 PM
Yesterday, US Fish & Wildlife Services agents issued a search warrant on Gibson Guitars’ manufacturing plant in Nashville, TN. The Nashville Post writes that they “seized wood, guitars, computers and boxes of files from Gibson Guitar’s Massman Road manufacturing facility.”
At issue is whether Gibson violated the Lacey Act, which prohibits the importation of rosewood from Madagascar because it serves as a home for lemurs; the Nashville Post suggests Gibson may be suspected of routing the wood through Germany first.
http://consumerist.com/2009/11/feds-raid-gibson-guitars.html
By Todd Pitman
Associated Press
updated 7:48 p.m. ET, Sat., Nov . 7, 2009
KOURE, Niger – A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil….
…It’s easier for humans to spot giraffes in Niger these days since there’s less forested cover for them to hide in. Africa’s most endangered giraffe subspecies is in Niger, and by all accounts it should be extinct. Instead, their numbers have quadrupled to 200 since 1996…
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33753490?Gt1=43001