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Sometimes A Perfect Stranger Is The Best Dinner Host

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“With Eat With, Side Tour, VoulezVousDiner and Feastly, a new food trend that is sweeping cities allows diners to enjoy fine meals inside someone else’s home. Think of it as Airbnb for hungry people.  It’s easy to think these sites are all about the food, but they’re not. The food is often just an excuse for what can essentially be a really great party with a bunch of people you’ve never met.  Recently I went to a ‘taco party’ I found through the Eat With website. I paid $40 to go to the home of two fun-loving Latinas. They have a great apartment, filled with art, just across from the Brooklyn Museum. As soon as their guests arrived, they made it a point to shove rum drinks into our hands.”

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/16/262776529/sometimes-a-perfect-stranger-is-the-best-dinner-host

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First tobacco, now sugar. Next they’ll be regulating our trousers

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“Do you know that fizzy drinks and chocolate are bad for you? For that matter, do you know they are bad for you because they have lots of sugar in them? Of course you do – not least because both facts are blindingly obvious to all but the smallest child. And yet the latest batch of public health busybodies, Action on Sugar, think differently.  Launched on Thursday, the pressure group helpfully explained to the nation that sugar consumption is ‘linked to obesity’. Like all those with a need to nanny other adults, it intends to save us from the threat, whether we like it or not.  Its formula is drearily predictable: regulation and taxes ought to be brought in – for our own good, of course.”

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/10/action-on-sugar-regulating-tobacco-freedom

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Denmark scraps world’s first fat tax [2012]

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“About a year ago, the Danish government tested out a policy never before seen in the world. It implemented an across-the-board tax on all foods with a saturated fat content above 2.3 percent, with the hopes of reducing consumption of unhealthy foods.  But it didn’t quite work that way. Some Danes did indeed switch to lower fat cheeses  and dairy products, The Wall Street Journal’s Clemens Bomsdorf reports. But a lot of them simply began to do their grocery shopping internationally, heading to countries that didn’t levy a fine on fat.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/11/13/denmark-scraps-worlds-first-fat-tax/

About a year ago, the Danish government tested out a policy never before seen in the world. It implemented an across-the-board tax on all foods with a saturated fat content above 2.3 percent, with the hopes of reducing consumption of unhealthy foods.

But it didn’t quite work that way. Some Danes did indeed switch to lower fat cheeses  and dairy products, The Wall Street Journal’s Clemens Bomsdorf reports. But a lot of them simply began to do their grocery shopping internationally, heading to countries that didn’t levy a fine on fat:

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Philadelphia Brewing Company Accepting Bitcoin As Payment

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“Now Philly beer nerds who prefer to exist outside the traditional banking system can rejoice because Philadelphia Brewing Company has just announced that they’re going to be the first United States brewery to accept bitcoin as payment for both wholesale and retail purchases.  There’s also the idea of streamlining their wholesale operations (previously, drivers could only accept payment by checks, which then had to be brought back to the office and processed manually) and making it cheaper to process retail sales. So, you know, if you happen to have a bunch of crypto-currency burning a hole in your virtual wallet, now you can go buy some beer and bottle openers with it.”

http://www.phillymag.com/foobooz/2014/01/10/philadelphia-brewing-company-accepting-bitcoin-payment/

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New Zealand Winery First in Southern Hemisphere to Accept Bitcoin

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“Pyramid Valley Vineyards produces collectable wines in New Zealand and sees the new currency as a development in line with its innovative approach to the wine business. Just last week, California’s Mondo Cellars winery also embraced bitcoin by selling shares to fund expansion of its operations.  The Rollingdale winery in British Columbia, Canada, has traded bitcoins for bottles since February, and was the first in North America to do so. The Picnic Wine Company in California’s Napa Valley also announced it would accept bitcoin back in April.”

http://www.coindesk.com/new-zealand-winery-first-accept-bitcoin/

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Chilean Nightclub to Pioneer Bitcoin in Latin America

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“California Cantina in Santiago will become the first restaurant in Chile, and the first nightclub in all of Latin America, to accept bitcoins.  Officially launching on January 8, the restaurant will be a bitcoin ‘pioneer’ for Latin America. The club has received significant interest on social media regarding the restaurant’s decision to accept the digital currency, in addition to Chilean pesos.  The restaurant will utilize an application developed by Coin4ce, the most prominent company for buying and selling bitcoins in Chile. The application will allow patrons to make purchases through their smartphones, by scanning QR codes generated by restaurant iPads that facilitate the process.”

http://panampost.com/joel-fensch/2014/01/07/nightclub-chile-bitcoin-pioneer-latin-america/

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U.S. Reacts To Fukushima By Raising Acceptable Radiation Standards

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“2 weeks after the Fukushima accident, we reported that the government responded to the nuclear accident by trying to raise acceptable radiation levels and pretending that radiation is good for us.  Since then, massive radiation has been released on a daily basis from Fukushima… for years.   So what has the American government done to protect us?  It has pressured the Japanese government to re-start its nuclear program, and is allowing Fukushima seafood to be sold in the U.S.  And U.S. nuclear regulators actually weakened safety standards for U.S. nuclear reactors after the Fukushima disaster.”

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/04/government-reacts-to-fukushima-radiation-crisis-by-raising-acceptable-radiation-standards-instead-of-fixing-anything.html

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Tilapia raised on feces hits US tables

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“They can survive in hopelessly polluted environments, they can be bred and raised in garbage cans and, when necessary, can subsist on a diet of other animals’ excrement.  It makes Tilapia so easily farmed that Americans eat close to 500 million pounds of it a year.  It also makes it bland and not particularly healthy for you. When its diet consists of manure, however, it’s basically like feeding them salmonella and E.coli.  The large amount of antibiotics that are given to the fish to ward off infections from the manure — which is used as a cheap alternative to fish feed — makes the strains of salmonella and E.coli those fish catch extremely hard to eliminate.”

http://money.msn.com/now/post–tilapia-raised-on-feces-hits-us-tables

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Bitcoins use by tea trade brought to notice of Ministry, board

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“In the winter session, several Members of Parliament raised questions about the use of the Bitcoin instrument by a section of small and specialised tea growers to sell their produce abroad. They wanted to know if the Government was aware of such practices, and if so, was it contemplating any action.  The Bitcoin instrument helps the exporter and the importer of tea clinch a deal directly without any middleman. The transaction can be completed within a few minutes and weekly holidays, bank holidays or strikes do not stand in the way of concluding the deal. Also, payments can be received from anywhere in the world without any bank transfer or the use of debit or credit cards.”

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/agri-biz/bitcoins-use-by-tea-trade-brought-to-notice-of-ministry-board/article5541416.ece

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Fast food CEO: How govt regulation is driving us abroad

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“Andy Puzder, the CEO of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr., should know. His company is expanding rapidly abroad due to higher potential outside the U.S., which is hampered by what he sees as too much government regulation.  Over the last three years, Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. opened more restaurants internationally than in their own backyards—a first, he added. CKE now operates restaurants in 30 foreign countries.  ‘Under the current U.S. business climate, regulatory and tax restrictions tend to curb otherwise dynamic entrepreneurial energy,’ Puzder said. ‘Unfortunately, it’s easier for our franchisees to open a restaurant in Siberia than in California.'”

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101302181

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