Eating chickens bred to eat, grow and die very fast, and sometimes in poor circumstances

Poultry excuses - Feel like chicken tonight? Plenty do. It’s the world’s most consumed meat. In the US alone they eat nine billion birds a year. Chicken’s cheap. Fast growing. Religiously neutral, crossing multiple cultural boundaries. Chicken provides a blank canvas for myriad cuisines. ... But please, please, don’t kid yourself about what you’re eating when you go to these sorts of modish ­places (and I intend to soon). You’re eating chicken produced in lousy conditions. ... You’re eating chickens bred to eat, grow and die very fast, and sometimes in poor circumstances.
Death to small bars - In all seriousness, licensed establishments operating in our midst are serving up martinis in Heinz tins and drams of whisky in syringes.

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2016: The Year of the Bowl? - There are plenty of innovative new dining trends to get excited about in 2016—high-octane cocktails, vegetables pickled in Kool-Aid, desserts made with bee pollen. But the dark-horse candidate of this year's trend forecast is a slightly more traditional item: the bowl. According to the Wall Street Journal, the use of bowls among American diners is on the rise. The tableware company Fiesta reported a 17 percent jump in bowl sales last year, which account for a third of the company's overall business. “People are eating from them, not serving from them,” Rich Brinkman, VP of sales and marketing at The Homer Laughlin China Co., which owns Fiesta, told the WSJ.

Online music videos 'expose teens to smoking and drinking' - Online music videos are heavily exposing teenagers to positive depictions of smoking and drinking alcohol, research suggests. Such portrayals posed a "significant health hazard that requires appropriate regulatory control", researchers said. YouTube videos of songs in the top 40 singles chart were examined by the University of Nottingham study. The British Board of Film Classification started putting age ratings on online pop videos last year. The research, in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, said girls between the ages of 13 and 15 were the most exposed to cigarettes and alcohol in videos.