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Tyson recalls chicken nuggets over rubber contamination
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Tyson Foods is recalling more than 36,000 pounds of chicken nuggets because they may be contaminated with small pieces of rubber.
The U.S. Agriculture Department says there were consumer complaints about extraneous material in 5-pound packages of Tyson White Meat Panko Chicken Nuggets. There are no confirmed reports of adverse reactions.
“A small number of consumers contacted the company to say they had found small pieces of soft, blue plastic in the nuggets, prompting the company to issue the recall,” Tyson said in a statement.
It added that the pieces were found “in a very small number of packages” and that no injuries had been reported.
Tyson said the nuggets were shipped to “club store distribution centers in Arizona, California, Illinois, New Jersey and Utah.”
The packages have a best if used by date of Nov. 26, 2019 and the case code 3308SDL03. The establishment core P-13556 is inside the USDA inspection mark.
The nuggets should be thrown out or returned to the place of purchase.
Outrage after girl’s thong used as evidence of consent in Irish rape trial
DUBLIN — Protests have flared across Ireland this week triggering a viral campaign online after a defense lawyer showed a 17-year-old girl’s thong or G-string in court as alleged proof of her consent in a rape case.
The outrage has included a female lawmaker brandishing underwear in parliament and women posting pictures of their thongs online with the hashtag #ThisIsNotConsent.
“It might seem embarrassing to show a pair of thongs in this incongruous setting,” said member of parliament Ruth Coppinger — pulling the underwear from her sleeve against the objections of the speaker on Tuesday.
“But the reason I’m doing it — how do you think a rape victim or a woman feels at the incongruous setting of her underwear being shown in a court?”
She was referring to a rape case in the republic’s southern city of Cork, where a girl’s underwear was shown to jurors.
The 27-year-old defendant was acquitted, Irish media reported.
“A barrister actually told a jury to ‘look at the way she was dressed’, that she was ‘open to meeting someone’ because she was ‘wearing a thong with a laced front'”, Coppinger added.
“Women in this country are getting a little bit weary at the routine victim-blaming going on in Irish courts.”
Protests have now taken place in the cities of Dublin and Cork as well as Belfast in Northern Ireland — with women appearing brandishing pairs of underwear and placards emblazoned with the phrase “This is not consent.”
Protestors are calling for a reform in Irish rape prosecution laws to deny the defence practice which they say reflects a culture of victim-blaming.
“Bringing rape myths into a sexual violence case is to bring misogyny into a sexual violence case,” Clíona Saidléar of Rape Crisis Network Ireland told AFP on Friday.
She said culture places “enormous pressure” on women and girls “to be sexualized and to present sexually” — but that rape trials then often punish that same behaviour with the use of such “evidence.”
Clothing, as well as fake tan and contraception, have all been used as alleged proof of consent in recent rape trials, Coppinger said Tuesday.
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In a first, same-sex couple carries the same baby
DALLAS — A same-sex couple in North Texas both wanted to carry their baby. They were able to through a special type of in vitro fertilization, CBS DFW reports.
Now, Ashleigh and Bliss Coulter call 5-month-old Stetson their miracle baby. “The way that Mr. Stetson came into this world was pretty special,” Ashleigh said.
Ashleigh and Bliss knew they wanted kids when they married. They both carried their son through what’s called “Effortless IVF.”
“We gave it a try and it was very, very successful,” Bliss said.
“This represents the first time that two women have both physically carried their child together,” said fertility specialist Dr. Kathy Doody of The Center for Assisted Reproduction.
Kathy and her husband, Dr. Kevin Doody, made it happen using Bliss’ eggs and sperm from a donor.
“She was so confident when she was saying that they can do it,” Ashleigh said. “I think that was surprising to us but also exciting.”
Through Effortless IVF, instead of placing the sperm and eggs into incubators, they go into an INVOcell. The device is then placed in the body for five days where the egg fertilizes and early embryo development begins.
In the Coulters’ case, after five days, Bliss had the INVOcell removed. The embryos were frozen and then one was transferred to Ashleigh. She carried their baby to term.
“This is a revolutionary type of IVF,” Kevin said. “It’s more accessible, it’s more affordable and it’s truly more natural.”
He said it’s received mixed feelings from the medical community.
“I think many have been excited about the thought, but Kevin is correct. Doctors in general, we don’t like change, so I think that their ability to share their story is phenomenal,” Kathy said.
Ashleigh and Bliss said they feel blessed to be able to share the experience together, and more children are in their future.
“You know your whole life changes obviously with anybody when they have a baby so leaning on your partner I think is really, really important and I definitely think it brought us closer together,” Ashleigh said.
Even though the Coulters were the Doodys first same-sex couple to go through Effortless IVF, they’ve performed the process for around 200 heterosexual couples.
They said the process typically costs about half as much as traditional IVF.