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  • Aldi considers selling edible INSECTS to help families through the cost-of-living crisis

    10/21/2022 4:00:37 AM PDT · by dynachrome · 45 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 10-19-22 | DARREN BOYLE
    Budget supermarket Aldi is considering selling edible insect recipe kits as the cost of living crisis hits families. Bugs such as crickets are known to be a cheap and sustainable form of protein. Now Aldi is weighing up whether to stock products by Yum Bug, which make the insect recipe kits. Yum Bug founders Aaron Thomas and Leo Taylor, both 28, are competing against other start-ups to get their product on the supermarket's shelves. The duo were picked from hundreds of applicant's to appear on Channel 4's 'Aldi's Next Big Thing' tomorrow.
  • Please Don’t Eat a Tide Pod, No Matter What the Memes Say

    01/04/2018 11:18:32 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 43 replies
    New York Magazine ^ | Madison Malone Kircher
    Tide Pods contain detergent. For washing your clothes and your sheets. Not for eating. Doesn’t matter how much they look like a snack, or a candy, or an oversize Gushers. You shouldn’t eat them unless you’d like to, well, potentially die. A child might not know better, so you should probably keep them out of reach of little hands — these things have killed before — for safety. (Or just buy some boring, cheaper, non-pod detergent. It works better anyway.) If you, after all of this, are still looking at a Tide Pod and thinking, Maybe just a little bit...
  • EPA says dispersants no worse than oil alone

    08/03/2010 5:41:04 AM PDT · by Wonder Warthog · 37 replies · 3+ views
    WWL TV ^ | August 2, 2010 | Matthew Daley
    WASHINGTON -- A new federal study of chemical dispersants used to break up oil in the Gulf of Mexico shows that when mixed with oil, the dispersant is less toxic to aquatic life than oil alone. The study also show that when mixed with oil, the dispersant used in the Gulf, Corexit 9500A, is no more or less toxic than oil mixtures with other chemical dispersants approved for use in oil spills.