horsemeat scandal
New Arrests Have Been Made in the European Horsemeat Scandal
This week, British investigators arrested three men who played a role in bringing horsemeat to market in 2012.
What Will Having a Food Crime Unit Actually Mean?
Last year's horsemeat scandal shook the UK to its hooves. Now a government-backed Food Crime Unit has been approved, though, the food supply will come under greater scrutiny. But how will it actually work and what will it be preventing?
There's Human Hair in Your Bread
L-cysteine is an amino acid used to extend the shelf life of commercial bread products and is most commonly synthesized from human hair. But no one eats processed food with the illusion that they're not eating something at least a bit gross.
Does the UK's Fitness Community Contain Our Most Progressive Meat Eaters?
UK website MuscleFood.com recently added zebra steaks to an already exotic roster of meats in its shop, with all 900 selling out just five hours after launch. They're not the first fitness website to sell protein that's not from a chicken, either...
This Billboard for Rabbit Pizza Is Made From Dead Rabbit Parts
The internet was up in arms—sorry, paws—yesterday over a New Zealand pizza chain erecting a billboard to try and sell their smoked rabbit pizza that was plastered with rabbit pelts and the line, "Made from real rabbit. Like this billboard."