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Recalling the facts…
McDonald’s dumps egg supplier after safety, cruelty concerns
Last year, more than half a billion eggs were recalled after Salmonella sickened more than 1,000 people, the largest egg recall in U.S. history. The recall did not involve Sparboe Farms.
I believe the last line in the McDonald’s/ Sparboe Farms article today is incorrect.
According to the FDA, Sparboe packaged the eggs included in the big recall last year.
Brian
You are right. We corrected the story: GBU Editor
An Egg McMuffin is seen in an undated handout photo. Reuters/McDonald’s/Handout
Misleading headline?
Family sues police over California Taser death
LOS ANGELES, Sept 1 (Reuters) – The parents of a Southern California man who accuse police of killing their son with a Taser after he honked at a patrol car have sued the sheriff’s department and county.
This headline is misleading. A cause of death hasn’t been determined and to simply infer that the use of one police tool is to blame for this man’s death is irresponsible as there are no facts to support that causal relationship.
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, hundreds of people unfortunately die during or following arrests each year with only a small fraction of these events involving the use of a TASER® device and most of these cases involved some other cause of death.
Please immediately correct the headline to reflect that the cause of death is as yet unknown.
Stacey Todd TASER International
We have amended the headline to call it a Taser-related death: GBU Editor
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