>> A vegan-friendly Taco Bell menu! The Onion makes fun of greenwashed fast food with a “news” report about Taco Bell’s new green menu — which takes nothing from nature! The “meat” used to be made of 85% gluten filler, 8% petroleum based grease flavoring and 4% meat. Now that 4%’s been replaced with a simple chemical adhesive! (via murketing)

Taco Bell’s New Green Menu Takes No Ingredients From Nature

Scarily, this “meat” reminds me of the scary fake meats beloved by many vegans.

>> Plastics are forever, but plastic art is not — and details of this story will make you leery about storing food and drinks in plastic containers:

It’s inevitable, however, that even plastic objects kept in dark, sterile drawers will begin to deteriorate chemically…. Often the only clue a plastic is degrading is its odor. Some begin to smell like ammonia or take on a sickly new-car smell. PVC weeps chlorine, giving it a swimming-pool smell, and any plastics with acetate eventually give off whiffs of acetic acid, which is found in vinegar. Other plastics are redolent of burnt milk, burnt hair, celery, cinnamon, raspberry jam, or camphor “muscle rub.”

Worst of all, when plastics weep and bleed they can corrupt everything around them. Chemicals evaporate from their surface and acidify any moisture inside a display case. This causes mini bouts of acid rain that in turn eat away at the plastic in nearby objects—as well as any cloth, metal, or paper in those objects.

>> Rejoice Californians — Only about a quarter of us are obese! Seriously, we’re one of the slimmer states according to the latest obesity rankings. (via Bitten)

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