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Covering food for Bloomberg Businessweek. Nice Jewish lady listening to country music. Tips and dog pics welcome dshanker@bloomberg.net
turns out a cornerstone study on the safety of glyphosate was written by... Monsanto scientists. it is being retracted, more than 20 years after it was published.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/c...
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A Study Is Retracted, Renewing Concerns About the Weedkiller Roundup
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January 2, 2026 at 6:57 PM
turns out a cornerstone study on the safety of glyphosate was written by... Monsanto scientists. it is being retracted, more than 20 years after it was published.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/c...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/c...
MY LATEST: As more people use GLP-1s, smart restaurants adapt their menus to serve them -- sometimes explicitly, sometimes not -- but in the end, all of us benefit. Smaller meals, smaller checks, more nutrition. You love to see it.
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Ozempic, GLP-1 Users Spend More at Restaurant Chains Like Olive Garden
The weight loss revolution could be a good thing for the food service industry.
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January 2, 2026 at 2:24 PM
MY LATEST: As more people use GLP-1s, smart restaurants adapt their menus to serve them -- sometimes explicitly, sometimes not -- but in the end, all of us benefit. Smaller meals, smaller checks, more nutrition. You love to see it.
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Let’s make 2026 the year we demand to maintain our inalienable right to wear shoes indoors.
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Welcome to the Office. Now Take Off Your Shoes.
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January 2, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Let’s make 2026 the year we demand to maintain our inalienable right to wear shoes indoors.
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post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains
December 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains
Annoying that after giving the kids Chinese food for dinner last night and deli for lunch today, I have to feed them YET AGAIN.
December 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Annoying that after giving the kids Chinese food for dinner last night and deli for lunch today, I have to feed them YET AGAIN.
For all the noise MAHA made on food dyes, the federal government did very little to get rid of them this year. (Vaccines are a different story.)
My latest, with a gift link
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December 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
For all the noise MAHA made on food dyes, the federal government did very little to get rid of them this year. (Vaccines are a different story.)
My latest, with a gift link
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My latest, with a gift link
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Merry Christmas to all the goyim!
December 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Merry Christmas to all the goyim!
everyone has come out with their takes on the slop bowl decline -- well here's mine: SMALLER BOWLS, LOWER PRICES. it's time to give the people what they want.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Fast Casual Chains Should Pivot to Smaller, Cheaper Meals in 2026
Fast food has won back price-sensitive customers with discounts, but some other restaurants have so far resisted.
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December 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
everyone has come out with their takes on the slop bowl decline -- well here's mine: SMALLER BOWLS, LOWER PRICES. it's time to give the people what they want.
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
this is all just normal stuff!!!
Show your age
17 (have never used a fax machine, a record player, or a phone booth)
17 (have never used a fax machine, a record player, or a phone booth)
December 16, 2025 at 2:37 AM
this is all just normal stuff!!!
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1000 percent every word of this. 😤
December 15, 2025 at 7:14 PM
1000 percent every word of this. 😤
Believer Meats was poised to actually do the things the cultivated meat industry has claimed for so long was just within our grasp, make lots of meat without slaughtering animals and with a smaller environmental footprint. They’ve now ceased operations.
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Breaking: Believer Meats ceases operations, but 'setback' does not mean cultivated meat sector is doomed, insists AMPS
HR & talent leader Anne Schubert said: “While the outcome is not what any of us hoped for, I am incredibly proud of what we accomplished.”
agfundernews.com
December 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Believer Meats was poised to actually do the things the cultivated meat industry has claimed for so long was just within our grasp, make lots of meat without slaughtering animals and with a smaller environmental footprint. They’ve now ceased operations.
agfundernews.com/breaking-bel...
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We’re all looking at our checking accounts, looking at our credit card statements, and wondering if we can buy something stupid… right?
December 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
We’re all looking at our checking accounts, looking at our credit card statements, and wondering if we can buy something stupid… right?
Okay folks, Thanksgiving is over, the year is wrapping up, and I am thinking about the year ahead. What are the stories you want to read more about in 2026 in food and health?
November 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Okay folks, Thanksgiving is over, the year is wrapping up, and I am thinking about the year ahead. What are the stories you want to read more about in 2026 in food and health?
It’s my first Black Friday in years not out reporting — how’s it looking out there??
November 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It’s my first Black Friday in years not out reporting — how’s it looking out there??
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
The Chicks
Garth Brooks
Ray Price/Willie Nelson/Merle Haggard
Faith Hill/Tim McGraw
Fiona Apple
The Chicks
Garth Brooks
Ray Price/Willie Nelson/Merle Haggard
Faith Hill/Tim McGraw
Fiona Apple
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times
R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen —
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
NIN
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Soul Coughing
Poe
Tom Morello
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen
The Chicks
Garth Brooks
Ray Price/Willie Nelson/Merle Haggard
Faith Hill/Tim McGraw
Fiona Apple
The Chicks
Garth Brooks
Ray Price/Willie Nelson/Merle Haggard
Faith Hill/Tim McGraw
Fiona Apple
Thankful for my enemies, who time and again, have driven me to do some of my best work.
November 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Thankful for my enemies, who time and again, have driven me to do some of my best work.
what-people-wear-on-airplanes discourse is the worst discourse
November 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
what-people-wear-on-airplanes discourse is the worst discourse
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#Thanksgiving is seen as a gauge for grocery prices, and now more so than ever as Americans grow increasingly frustrated with the cost of living.
Read the latest Business of Food newsletter from @deenashanker.bsky.social
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Is Trump Cutting Cost of Thanksgiving? It Depends Who You Ask
Thanksgiving is seen as a gauge for grocery prices, and now more so than ever as Americans grow increasingly frustrated with the cost of living.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
#Thanksgiving is seen as a gauge for grocery prices, and now more so than ever as Americans grow increasingly frustrated with the cost of living.
Read the latest Business of Food newsletter from @deenashanker.bsky.social
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Read the latest Business of Food newsletter from @deenashanker.bsky.social
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Coming down the stairs, I hear my husband leading the children in a rendition of Werewolf Bar Mitzvah, and I can say: In a life with plenty of mistakes, I have also made good choices.
November 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Coming down the stairs, I hear my husband leading the children in a rendition of Werewolf Bar Mitzvah, and I can say: In a life with plenty of mistakes, I have also made good choices.
Something I like to do when my dog does bad things like destroy a book is smush her face and lovingly tell her she’s a bad dog so she has no idea what I’m talking about
November 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Something I like to do when my dog does bad things like destroy a book is smush her face and lovingly tell her she’s a bad dog so she has no idea what I’m talking about
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It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It’s baby octopus season 🐙🦑
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
Saw this little guy last night with the Salish Sea School in Anacortes, WA as part of their free community dock walk I volunteer as an interpreter for.
We can tell it is a giant pacific octopus from the single line of chromatophores on each arm.
LOL I couldn’t even accept a box of Kind bars
“Apple set the tone” when Tim Cook gave Trump an engraved, glass disc. This week, the Swiss delegation gave him a “special Rolex desktop clock” and a $130,000 gold bar.
“.. It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it," an administration official told @axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
“.. It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it," an administration official told @axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
November 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
LOL I couldn’t even accept a box of Kind bars
if country music is three chords and the truth, I say nothing made by AI can be considered country.
Millions of people have, probably unknowingly, streamed a dreadful country song created entirely by AI. This is a harbinger of things to come.
It's going to get increasingly more difficult to hang on to our humanity, but we have to keep at it. My latest:
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/todays-ai-...
It's going to get increasingly more difficult to hang on to our humanity, but we have to keep at it. My latest:
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Today’s AI Slop Panic That Is Both Fake and Real, In the Worst Way
What's here now is bad, and what's coming is worse. Hang on to your humanity.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
if country music is three chords and the truth, I say nothing made by AI can be considered country.
Oh boy, this one is sure to raise some eyebrows: Trump administration considering bringing back the food pyramid, now with an emphasis on proteins and whole foods
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Trump Administration Considers Bringing Back the Food Pyramid
President Donald Trump’s administration is considering bringing back the food pyramid when it updates the nation’s dietary guidelines later this year, according to people familiar with the discussions...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Oh boy, this one is sure to raise some eyebrows: Trump administration considering bringing back the food pyramid, now with an emphasis on proteins and whole foods
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this is so embarrassing
Harvard says it is handing out too many A’s. Students are fighting back.
Harvard Says It’s Handing Out Too Many A’s. Students Are Fighting Back.
A report from the Ivy League school found rampant grade inflation. But students complain the administration is moving the goal posts.
on.wsj.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
this is so embarrassing