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B & R Meat Processing Recalls Pork Products Due to Possible Processing Deviation and Staphylococcal Enterotoxin Contamination
B & R Meat Processing, a Winslow, Ark. establishment, is recalling approximately 2,129 pounds of pork products due to a possible processing deviation that may have led to staphylococcal enterotoxin contamination.

Schnucks Recalls Chef’s Express California Pasta Salad Because of Possible Health Risk

04/17/2015 11:20 AM EDT Schnuck Markets, Inc. of St. Louis, Mo. is recalling its Chef’s Express California Pasta Salad sold in its Deli/Chef’s Express departments April 2 – April 14, 2015 because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting in the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections (i.e., infected aneurysms, endocarditis and arthritis.

B& R Meat Processing, Inc. Recalls Products Due to Nitrite Levels in Excess of Regulatory Limit
B & R Meat Processing, Inc. is recalling approximately 569 pounds of pork products due to nitrite levels in excess of regulatory limit.

Beech-Nut Nutrition Recalls Baby Food Product Due to Possible Foreign Matter Contamination
Beech-Nut Nutrition, an Amsterdam, N.Y. establishment, is recalling approximately 1,920 pounds of baby food products that may be contaminated with small pieces of glass.

Texas Star Nut and Food Co., Inc. Expands Its Voluntary Recall to Include Additional Macadamia Nut Products Due to Recall Notification From Their Supplier of Possible Salmonella Contamination

04/08/2015 10:04 AM EDT These products have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain.

Corn Maiden Foods, Inc. Recalls Beef and Pork Products Due To Misbranding and an Undeclared Allergen Corn Maiden Foods, Inc., a Harbor City, Calif. establishment, is recalling approximately 15,600 pounds of pork tamales, pork Yucatan, and beef brisket taquitos products due to misbranding and an undeclared allergen (hydrolyzed soy protein).

Cargill Recalls Beef Products Due To Possible Foreign Matter Contamination
Recall Notification Report. Cargill Meat Solutions, a Wyalusing, Pa. establishment, is recalling approximately 8,294 pounds of ground beef product that may be contaminated with blue string.

Updated information is now available. A list of retail consignees has been posted for recall 056-2015, Vern’s and Sons Food Service Recalls Beef and Chicken Products Produced Without Benefit of Inspection (Apr 8, 2015).

La Guadalupana Wholesale Co., Inc. Recalls Pork and Chicken Products Due To Misbranding and an Undeclared Allergen
La Guadalupana Wholesale Co., Inc., a Chicago, Ill. establishment, is recalling approximately 34,923 pounds of pork and chicken tamale products due to misbranding and an undeclared allergen. The products contain egg whites, a known allergen, which are not declared on the product label.

Vern’s and Sons Food Service Recalls Beef and Chicken Products Produced Without Benefit of Inspection
Vern’s and Sons Food Service, a Milwaukie, Ore. establishment, is recalling approximately 450 pounds of beef and chicken products that were produced without the benefit of federal inspection and outside inspection hours.

Leader Slaughterhouse, LLC Recalls Veal Carcasses Produced Without Full Benefit of Inspection
Leader Slaughterhouse, LLC, an Imler, Penn., establishment, is recalling approximately 1,800 pounds of veal carcasses that were produced without the full benefit of federal inspection and outside inspection hours.

Kanan Enterprises Conducts Nationwide Voluntary Recall of Macadamia Nuts

04/10/2015 08:56 AM EDT Kanan Enterprises announces the voluntary recall of macadamia nuts due to potential contamination with salmonella. The supplier of the macadamia nuts has asked us to issue this recall because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.

Texas Pecan Company Voluntarily Recalls Macadamia Nuts and Products Containing Macadamia Nuts Because of Possible Salmonella Contamination

04/09/2015 08:07 PM EDT Texas Pecan Company Inc. of Dallas, Texas, is voluntarily recalling the items stated below; (refer to Table in Paragraph 3), because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune

Sabra Dipping Company Issues Nationwide Voluntary Recall of Select SKUs of Its Classic Hummus

04/08/2015 07:08 PM EDT Today Sabra Dipping Co., LLC announced that it is voluntarily recalling approximately 30,000 cases of its Classic Hummus due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. This measure is limited to five SKUs of Classic Hummus sold nationwide.

Blue Bell Creameries Expands Recall of Products Produced in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma Due to Possible Health Risk

04/07/2015 10:42 PM EDT

Blue Bell Creameries is expanding its recall of products that were produced in the Broken Arrow, Okla., plant to include Banana Pudding Ice Cream pints which tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes, and additional products manufactured on the same line. These items have the potential to be young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.

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Can you believe this ?

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(Estate) Tax Day

04/16/2015 Nativegrl77

By CAP Action War Room

We Don’t Need Another Permanent Tax Cut For Millionaires And Billionaires

Tax Day: The day that most Americans are reminded that they offer a good chunk of their hard-earned money to the government as part of their responsibility as citizens of our fine democracy. But the GOP is taking this opportunity to remind us of more than that: In the next few days, Republicans will vote to repeal the estate tax, giving yet another tax windfall for the wealthy few. And they will vote to do this even as they push to cut support for middle- and working-class families.

The estate tax only ever applies to the very richest Americans, and as more and more of America’s wealth gets concentrated at the top, it is one of a few tools we have to put a check on inequality. It only kicks in when an estate is worth more than $5.43 million; the median household net worth was only $81,200 in 2014. And while conservatives work on giving the wealthiest Americans a giant tax break, House Republicans have also proposed cutting $125 billion from the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), costing the economy 286,000 jobs, as our graphic demonstrates below:

Here are a few more things that repealing the estate tax would do:

Repealing the estate tax would cost the U.S. $269 billion over 10 years.
Repealing the estate tax would only benefit the very wealthiest 5,400 estates in America.
Only 0.2% of estates would benefit from an estate tax repeal.

Just one week of the proposed estate tax cuts for millionaires could feed more than 337,000 children for a year.

While conservatives focus on how to make the wealthiest even wealthier, across the country, American workers are taking action today to demand higher wages. In 230 cities, fast food workers walked off of the job for the Fight for 15 campaign. Despite record low unionization rates, workers are still demanding that their voices are heard and that they deserve a fair wage for fair work.

BOTTOM LINE: This year’s tax day couldn’t provide a better contrast between progressive and conservative visions for America. Conservatives really believe that the economy grows from the top down – that if we give more to millionaires and billionaires by cutting their estate tax, it will trickle down to the rest of us. Meanwhile, progressive advocates are cheering on the fast food workers, childcare workers, home care providers, and thousands of others who are taking a risk to fight for a living wage so that their families can get ahead. Trickle down policy doesn’t work: it has left middle and worker class families with less, and destabilized our entire economy. The real engine of the economy is a strong middle class.

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Philip Morris against all of us — nearly there!

04/16/2015 Nativegrl77

Big tobacco is suing Uruguay for their anti-smoking laws. If they win, it will threaten public health laws everywhere and prove one corporation can trump the public good, even when its product kills! But if we launch a giant call and Avaaz hires a world class legal team to carry our voices into the courtroom, the judges won’t be able to turn a blind eye. Click to join now:

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