Duck-restaurant-A-shanty-town-sheds-picnic-tables.html Gourmet diners pay hundreds of pounds to visit the plush dining room of the Fat Duck restaurant and sample the bizarre creations of celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal. They might be surprised to see where dishes such as snail porridge and sardine-on-toast sorbet are actually created.

Organic chicken and eggs approved by the country's largest certification body contain a synthetic growth promoter that other certifiers have banned and Europe and the US are phasing out. Far from being completely natural, there are 36 synthetic substances, including some additives in wine, which are found in organic products sold in Australia.

Tracy Reiman, Executive Vice President, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Los Angeles, writes regarding “New Way to Help Chickens Cross to Other Side” to say that PETA is proud to see that its hard work behind the scenes with Bell & Evans and other companies to encourage implementation of this new, less cruel form of slaughter is finally coming to fruition.

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KNOXVILLE -- Health department inspectors in East Tennessee are keeping a keen eye on kitchen workers to see if they're washing their hands like state rules require. However, in Knoxville and Knox County, hand washing was a problem at two of the three eateries that failed the most recent set of inspections.

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