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IKEA recalls pork and beef meatballs sold in Europe after inspectors find traces of horse meat.
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When the topic of eating meat comes up, on occasion my vegan and vegetarian friends will recite a list of reasons they abstain from consuming the flesh of animals. (Not that they need to justify anything to me; I always assumed it was not because they love animals so much as they hate plants.) I [....
Gloves may be no better than bare hands in preventing food contamination says a recent study.
The controversy over "pink slime" has less to do with food safety than with the psychology of disgust.
