Food and Drink

Neighbors recall slain homeless man as kind, thoughtful and friendly (Los Angeles Times)

12 Oct 2008

Shrines have been set up at the spot where 'John' lived, and a vigil is planned in memory of the man who was burned to death in what L.A. police chief William Bratton called a 'heinous' crime. Outraged residents of a Mid-Wilshire neighborhood called Saturday for the quick arrest of the person who doused a homeless man with gasoline and burned him to death on a 3rd Street sidewalk in an area ...

Animal abuse keeps shelters busy in Tier (Press & Sun-Bulletin)

12 Oct 2008

With nothing to eat or drink, Spot was left to fend for herself inside a Port Dickinson apartment piled with garbage, feces and other debris.

Food for the Poor says Chinese infant formula it issued to local moms safe (The Jamaica Observer)

12 Oct 2008

FOOD for the Poor, one of Jamaica's leading charitable organisations, said it is confident that a container loaded with infant formula that was imported from China for distribution island-wide is not a part of the batch of toxic milk products that killed at least four children and sickened more than 56,000 others in that country.