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Dogs in China: Friend or Food?; European E. Coli Outbreak Kills Fourteen

• In China, there’s an escalating debate: Are dogs better as pets … or food? [UPI]

• Speaking of China, the People’s Supreme Court issued a directive that food-safety violators, like some of their victims, ought to die. [CNN]

• Servers in some New York restaurants are forgoing notepads — and that’s driving certain Post reporters customers crazy. [NYP]

• Garbage in … Oddly enough, diet has never been regarded as an important thing in athletics, but that’s starting to change. [AZ Central]

• A massive E. coli outbreak in Europe has killed fourteen people so far, and many are blaming it all on Spanish vegetables. [LAT]

• Inflation has risen to 23 percent in Venezuela, and food prices are so high that many of the poorest citizens are spending nearly half their income to feed themselves. [Forbes]

Dogs in China: Friend or Food?; European E. Coli Outbreak Kills Fourteen