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The editorials in the January 8, 2009 edition of the Business Standard (Compliant and complacent and The cost of the DMK) are very relevant.

British shoppers are ignorant about the conditions in which the pigs that supply much of their bacon and pork are kept, according to Jamie Oliver, as the TV chef launches a new campaign.Oliver and the RSPCA will call on the EU to set tougher minimum welfare standards for farmers and legislate on more honest labelling about how their animals are reared.The RSPCA hopes Oliver's programme, Jamie Saves Our Bacon - to be screened by Channel 4 this month - will help to do for pigs what it and another celebrity chef, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, did for chickens last year. Their campaigns led to significant increases in sales of poultry raised to higher welfare standards.Britain is only about 25% self-sufficient in bacon and 70% in pork, meaning it imports large quantities of pig meat, which farmers in the UK complain comes from animals generally raised in worse and more intensive indoor conditions, including in much of the EU. But the RSPCA's Julia Wrathall said even in this country 'a signi

CoastHills Federal Credit Union is taking a proactive approach to dealing with the challenges of this tough economy. Its Santa Maria and Five Cities branches will consolidate effective Feb. 2, said Scott Coe, senior vice president of marketing for CoastHills...

) January 11, 2009 -- WebDex Media Group, a leading Internet marketing and search engine optimization company, is pleased to announce the addition of Jamie Fuller as a new Account Manager. Jamie ...

Q In my E-Trade account I have 100 shares of a company that is now listed on the pink sheets and last sold for $0.0001 per share. I tried to sell the shares, but nothing happened. I lost $319 and want to take a tax loss. What can I do?