(The Center Square) – Some Illinois lawmakers want to supersede the federal government when it comes to banning food additives. A measure moving through Springfield would ban several additives, including brominated vegetable oil and red dye number 3. California recently passed a similar ban, but if enacted, Illinois would have one of the strictest food additive bans in the country under Illinois Senate Bill 2637. “It is time we protect the health of Illinoisans,...
Laura Reyes was in the middle of her shift as a cook at Burger King in San Jose, when she started feeling a sharp pain in her abdomen and lower back. As the day went on, Reyes started bleeding, and the pain became so severe that she felt like she might die. She had asked more than once if she could leave work, but her managers would not allow it. “I was really worried,” she told Fast Company through a translator. “In that moment, I didn’t know I was pregnant.” Reyes later found out that it...
(FOX40.COM) -- Many people throughout the United States are probably aware that California is home to the most people in the United States, but what may be less known is that the state is also home to more native animal and plant species than any other state in the country. With that many people living []
To the editor: Your print edition front page on April 8 had two articles about worsening circumstances in California with regard to climate change and housing, and a piece explaining the reasons conservatives don’t like us. It seems to be the norm for folks (even our friends and members of our family) to think negatively about the state. In reality, it is probable that not living within a budget leads to people thinking California is too expensive; that not knowing people different than we are...
A huge Burger King franchisee is rushing to cut costs over California's $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers. Restaurants are cutting staff's hours and turning to tech.
(The Center Square) – Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, every public high school shall require a unit of instruction addressing climate change in either a required science class or a required social studies class. House Bill 4895 gives the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) the directive to create professional development resources for educators to best teach climate change coursework. State Rep. Janet Yang Rohr, D-Naperville, said she is working to...
Foods that cause smelly flatulence contain compounds that produce sulfur odor. Some are not fully digested and are fermented by gut bacteria, leading to gas. READ MORE: Experts reveal what happens in the body
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Farmers in rural Malawi are learning to move away from over-dependence on maize, the country’s primary staple crop. A local charity Never Ending Food is teaching farmers about 200 types of food crops they can grow and eat. Lameck Masina reports from Lilongwe.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was inundated with water on Tuesday after
Professor Maarten Ambaum, a meteorologist at the University of Reading who