In the News: bacon shortage, school lunch menus, Libyan security lapse
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Ethan Magoc on October 1st, 2012 | Last updated: October 1, 2012 at 12:28 pm
Bacon shortage unlikely but prices to rise | Ocala.com – Bacon isn’t going anywhere. After social media exploded last week with cries of a bacon shortage, US agricultural economists are reassuring bacon lovers. Bacon will remain on supermarket shelves in the upcoming months but may increase in price due to effects from the current drought. Associated Press
School lunch menus: New, healthier school menus in Florida are no longer just food for thought. – OrlandoSentinel.com – After sampling a new federal law regulating school lunches, Lake County schools have sifted through their trash, learning that students tossed out about $75,000 of produce. According to a 2002 congressional report, uneaten lunchtime food nationwide costs taxpayers about $600 million or more annually. The Orlando Sentinel
Mistaken Sense of Security Cited Before Envoy to Libya Died – NYTimes.com – Further details emerge about the attack on the American Embassy in Libya, which resulted in the death of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. State Department and counterterrorism officials concede that amid threat warnings that grew before the attack, the U.S. may have had too much faith in the embassy’s local security. The New York Times
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