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Thursday, one day after the Bush administration announced plans to phase out salmonella testing for ground beef bound for school lunch programs, the administration backtracked in the face of rising consumer ire. Officials now insist they will keep the vigilant - or excessive, according to the beef industry - screening processes implemented in the final year of the Clinton administration. And while consumer groups chalked up this victory, they are well aware of new battles on the horizon, including the looming possibility of irradiating truckloads of meat rather than inspecting every piece...
...administration's reversal disappointed the meat-processing industry, which has long opposed the stricter screening guidelines, which it claims are too expensive to implement and result in an unnecessary waste of meat. In the year since the Clinton standards went into effect, for example, 4.8 million pounds of ground beef (out of a total of 120 million pounds inspected) were rejected because it contained salmonella...
...rejecting abstractions and bucolic panoramas in favor of the edgy cityscapes of the new age. The exhibit opens with a monumental oil and collage by American Tom Wesselmann depicting a towering six-pack of Royal Crown Cola, a fat loaf of Sunbeam bread and a can of Libby's beef stew obscuring a view of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral. That jarring juxtaposition embodies a fundamental tenet of Pop: that the everyday artifacts of consumer society defined a new aesthetic, stretching traditional conceptions of appropriate subjects and blurring the distinction between high...
Although Wang Zhizhi is a very big man, the hopes of 1.3 billion Chinese strain even the mightiest of shoulders. But fueled by dinners of Texas beef, the 2.16-m Atlas has coolly shrugged off this monumental national burden. Last week, in his first game in the biggest of the big leagues, the National Basketball Association, the soft-spoken Wang wowed a capacity crowd by nailing two shots and a pair of free throws for his new team?the Dallas Mavericks. By the time the play-off-bound Mavs had triumphed over the Atlanta Hawks by 108-94, Asia...
...significant shift toward vegetarianism, obviously. Polls show that some 20 percent of the population is now seriously contemplating vegetarianism, and restaurants are turning largely toward chicken and fish. This outbreak may shift attitudes a lot more sharply than the mad cow issue did. That initially brought down beef consumption by about 20 percent, but it soon recovered its old levels. But this foot-and-mouth outbreak may prompt a more significant and long-lasting move away from meat...