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...single Chinese company but ended up in over 100 brands of pet food. ChemNutra Inc., based in Las Vegas, bought 873 tons of gluten from the Chinese company, farmed it out to three pet food makers and one distributor that services the industry. A highly centralized process may be cheap, but "at that size and scale if something goes wrong it goes wrong big time," says Nestle...
Rendering plants, which boil down dead animal carcasses from slaughterhouses into fats and proteins, sell cheap material that often ends up in pet food. The "meat" in your cat's kibbles could be any kind: there's no law against even using rendered material from cats and dogs in pet food. Plants can mix in anything from road kill to supermarket deli meats, and investigations by KMOV-TV in St. Louis and the Los Angeles Times have suggested that pets killed in animal shelters just might make it into the slop. The Pet Food Institute, whose members create most...
...drugs in the world can explain the vast improvements we've seen in psychosocial metrics for teens since the 1980s. I'm not exactly sure why teen life is getting better, but I actually think teens are more empowered than ever-through social-networking websites, through the cheap availability of cell phones, and through their busier-than-ever schedules, which-as Joseph Mahoney of Yale has shown here-tend to be surprisingly beneficial for most teens. The bottom line is, Our kids are fine...
Rule No. 2: Expand your consumer base. Do movie companies try to lure 11-, 13-, 15-year-olds to their violent movies? Of course: that age group is their prime market. And with the Internet, it's easy and cheap to do. If the Saws and Hostels were never seen by young teens, they'd lose a big slice of their audience...
...thriller that triggered the latest barrage of ultragore, cost $1.2 million and earned more than $100 million at the worldwide box office. The Hills Have Eyes and Silent Hill grossed more than $150 million between them. Then all the films went to DVD, where the real money is. Cheap movies that make a bundle--that's just good business...