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Oscar Mayer is one of the most iconic meat brands in the U.S. Its distinctive yellow band has been a mark of quality since the early 1900s. This is its story.

I to get a man to understand something, wrote Upton Sinclair, an American novelist, when his salary depends on not understanding it. Hard, but not impossible:…

The Pure Foods Movement was a grass roots effort that called attention to the presence of unhealthy additives in processed food. Prior to 1906, there was no governmental oversight of processed foods and pharmaceutical drugs. Purity, quality, and sanitation were not regulated. Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel \“The Jungle\” exposed the unsanitary conditions of Chicago slaughterhouses. The book increased people’s awareness of the unhealthy condition of some foods.

Long-awaited Chicken Run sequel, which turns the original formula on its head, has been painstakingly created at Aardman’s unassuming studio

As people living in a society that glorifies consumerism, we are all used to our fair share of media franchises that are drawn out for far too long. When this happens, it gives the impression that the creators are trying to milk the franchise for its every last coin. From “Fast & Furious” to “Grey’s…

Real estate speculator René Benko is the product and embodiment of a sick society in which profit and wealth count for everything, while the fate and even the lives of ordinary people count for nothing.

There are certain guidelines to follow when making a true Chicago-style hot dog. One of them calls for the hot dogs to be made only with beef and no pork.

1997—In Plymouth, Mass., police serve Native American demonstrators a generous helping of pepper-spray. 1986—As Ed “Meese is a Pig” Meese confesses that profits…

“Reading occupies a strange position in today’s world, being at once physiologically unnecessary and culturally central.”

The Bakersfield Californian turned over a reporter's notes that a judge said were 'reasonably necessary' to a case, alarming free-press advocates.