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What you don't eat at the Vegas buffets, these pigs will
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — With a satisfied grin, farmer Bob Combs watches the big truck slowly dump its greasy load, a Niagara Falls of yesterday's kitchen leftovers that sends off a sickening spray as it splashes into a metal bin. The greenish-...
Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Lifestyle and Leisure, Restaurants, Casino and Gambling Industry, McDonald's
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A retro-future corner of Anaheim
Los Angeles TimesWearing round glasses, a buttoned vest and blue wingtip oxfords, Shaheen Sadeghi can't walk down Anaheim's Center Street Promenade without being greeted by every shop owner on this three-block stretch of newly opened restaurants and boutiques. He's the...Tags: Arts and Culture, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Lifestyle and Leisure, Restaurants, Heart Surgery
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From Ojai, crops of Gala apples and Howard Miracle plums
Most California apples are grown either well north of Los Angeles, in mountains, or near the coast, where cool winters and nights boost production and quality. Ojai, atrociously hot in summer, is better known for its citrus, but in some of its valleys...
Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, Otis Chandler, Apples, Farms
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Campbell Soup goes healthy with $1.55-billion Bolthouse Farms buy
Campbell Soup Co., maker of canned soups and packaged cookies, is moving in a fresher and more healthful direction with its $1.55-billion purchase of Bakersfield, Calif.-based Bolthouse Farms. Now approaching its 100th anniversary, Bolthouse was among...
Tags: Carrots, Farms, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Organic Foods, Arable Farming
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Food FYI: Egg farmers seek new rules for treatment of chickens
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Five Questions: Dr. Walter Willett on red meat
Dr. Walter Willett is the chair of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. He's also a cow's best friend. Earlier this month, Willett and colleagues, who have studied the link between diet and health for decades, published a study that followed...
Tags: Vegan Diet, Heart Disease, Vegetarian Diet, Nutrition, Cancer
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Suspicion in Mexico's Sinaloa cartel
Last of four parts
Reporting from Calexico, Calif., and Badiraguato, Mexico
The towering iron gates opened onto a palm-lined driveway that led past the family church, a twisting water slide and two man-made lakes, one stocked with fish, the other with...Tags: Crimes, Services and Shopping, Religion and Belief, Criminals, Hispanic and Latino Americans
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Agritourism takes off in Hawaii
HANALEI, Hawaii — It's a warm Tuesday afternoon on Kauai and tourists are lining up — just a few at first, then a dozen or so. Finally more than 100 have gathered, waiting patiently. They're not here to swim with dolphins, snorkel in turquoise...
Tags: Travel, Natural Resources, Forestry and Timber, Music, Entertainment
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David W. Kenney dies at 77; SeaWorld's first veterinarian
David W. Kenney, SeaWorld's first veterinarian, who played a key role in bringing the original Shamu to the San Diego amusement park as well as a gray whale believed to be the first raised by humans, died Feb. 14 in Montrose, Colo. He was 77.
The cause...Tags: Whale (animal), University of California, Davis, Pneumonia, Amusement and Theme Parks, Science
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Market Watch: Goatherd's life a rugged climb
Special to the Los Angeles Times— One of very few goat dairies in Southern California, and one of the newest and best cheese vendors at local certified farmers markets, is Drake Family Farms, which started selling an excellent fresh, mild chevre cheese a little over a year ago. It...Tags: Dog (animal), Religion and Belief, Farms, Whole Foods Market
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Animal rights activists take credit for blaze at cattle ranch
L.A. NOWAnimal rights activists are taking credit for setting fire to a fleet of cattle trucks at a Central Valley ranch that is the state’s largest processor of beef.... -
Charles T. Manatt dies at 75; Democratic Party leader and diplomat
Charles T. Manatt, who founded one of the biggest and most influential law firms in Los Angeles and then became a political power as chairman of the state and national Democratic parties, died Friday night. He was 75.
Manatt died at Kindred Hospital in...Tags: Des Moines Register, Time Warner Inc., Dominican Republic, Barack Obama, Elections
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