Saturday, February 10, 2007
Chocolate Eggs and Nuts
Thousands of chocolate Easter eggs have been recalled after nut allergy fears at Cadbury's chocolate egg making factory. The eggs, which are produced by genetically engineered chocolate turkeys, may have been contaminated with nuts after the birds, themselves allergic to nuts, began to die at alarming rates. It is believed that imported chocolate turkeys bred on nuts in Hungary may be to blame. Most have now been melted down into Freddo chocolate bars.
Labels: cadbury, chocolate, contamination, Easter, Hungary, nuts, turkey
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Turkey Shock in Suffolk
Vets in Suffolk are trying to understand how 160,000 turkeys came to be living at a Bernard Matthews farm near Lowestoft. They were alerted to the situation after an outbreak of bird flu, but were alarmed to find that almost all of the poultry was destined for human consumption. 'Like most people we assumed that Bernard Matthews turkey was some kind of horrible genetic experiment, grown in labs and marketed as meat. We were horrified that actual turkeys go into making something that looks and tastes nothing like turkey,' said a Health Protection Agency officer. 'They've obviously been very clever in hiding the fact that what they're selling is actual food.'
Labels: bernard matthews, bird flu, H5N1, meat, surprise, turkey
