Congress says Food Security Bill would have immensely benefited the poor

The Information and Broadcasting Minister , Manish Tewari, has blamed the opposition for the Governments inability to pass the Food Security Bill, which would have helped the country's poor. He was speaking during his visit to Odisha. Manish Tewari said that the bill was " so ambitious and breathtaking" in its very conception and would provide food security to 67 percent of the people of this ...

Paltrow changed diet post dads cancer diagnosis

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow chose to eat healthier food after her late father was diagnosed with cancer 15 years ago. "I began to consider the effects of food when my father was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1998. I started to research anti-cancer diets in hopes that he would try to hit it from all angles," usmagazine.com quoted her as saying. "Good whole foods are the way we have eaten for ...

garden QA Avoid planting food in tires

Q: My neighbors and I are working on a garden together, and we would like to have a potato tower. I am looking at one made one out of wood, but we were told that a tire tower is a lot less work. We are concerned that the tires may be toxic to the potatoes in some way. I checked on a couple of websites and am still not convinced they are safe. Could I please have an opinion from you about whether ...

Chinese spooked by food scandals take action - by growing it themselves

By Le Li, Producer, NBC News BEIJING – Shopping for groceries is a painful process for Tan Yinghong, a mother in her mid-30s. Just to buy meat, vegetables and milk for her 7-year-old son she has to pick her way through a minefield of possible perils – fake lamb, diseased pork, toxic ginger, tainted milk and unsafe bottled water. So after years of scandals and the government's ...

Restaurants Fear Sales Hit From Proposed Stricter Drunk Driving Laws CNBC

CNBC Imagine having a drink with dinner at a restaurant only to be pulled over on the way home and slapped with a DUI. That could happen under a proposed plan to toughen the drunk driving laws across the country, and it has restaurateurs alarmed. The National Transportation Safety Board wants states to make it illegal to drive with a blood-alcohol content level above 0.05. Currently all U.S. ...