How salad can make us fat and can we justify killing animals for food?

How Salad Can Make Us Fat - Route data from more than 1,000 shoppers, matched to their purchases at checkout, revealed a clear pattern: Drop a bunch of kale into your cart and you’re more likely to head next to the ice cream or beer section. The more “virtuous” products you have in your basket, the stronger your temptation to succumb to vice.

Can we justify killing animals for food? - Four philosophers share their views

Grand Theft Vino: Higher Wine Prices Are Attracting More Thieves

Could Beer Save The Honeybees? - This week, the EPA approved the use of potassium salts of hops beta acids (HBAs) — a biochemical (or naturally-occurring) pesticide that’s derived from hops, the flowers of the plant Humulus lupulus — around honeycombs. Research has shown that HBAs have potential for repelling varroa mites, a dangerous mite that attaches itself to honeybees and sucks out their circulatory fluid. Varroa mites weaken bees and spread debilitating diseases, including deformed wing virus, which causes crumpled up, useless wings in young bees.

The Best Italian Wine Region You’ve Never Heard Of The world does not yet come to the Friuli region, and so much the better.

Food that has a face - a foodie trend coming out of East Asia is all about people creating fun faces, for their food. Called "character bento" and "chigiri-pan" (Japanese for "tear-away bread") these rice balls, noodle plates and buns feature characters and faces. ... "Making bento was more of a necessity for me as I needed to pack lunch for work," says Shirley Wong, who blogs under the name Little Miss Bento.

It's Nepal's Biggest Holiday And Goats Are Not Happy About It

Online wine sales outpace retail wine sales - According to the latest Rabobank Global Wine Quarterly report, growth of online wine sales are increasing and outpacing growth of sales in the traditional retail market. The main driver is the demand from millennials, or Generation Y - those aged 18 to 27.