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Italian ham slice dispute lands four in hospital

2011-05-16T13:06:00.000-07:00

(AFP) – 2 days ago

ROME — Four people were on Saturday hospitalised in Italy after a dispute over the thickness of a supermarket's ham slices turned violent, the ANSA news agency said in a report.

The row broke out when a 50-year-old woman shopping in the Tuscany town of Livorno in central Italy protested that the ham slices being cut by a counter assistant were too thick.

A scuffle unfolded involving the shop assistant's father as well as the woman's husband and two sons.

Police were called and three ambulances were also sent to the scene.

The shop assistant, the disgruntled ham shopper and her husband all suffered bruises and were treated in hospital.

The shopkeeper's father was also hospitalised after feeling ill, the news agency said.

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Argentine president: Eat pork, spice your sex life

2010-02-01T12:57:00.000-08:00

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Argentina's president thinks eating pig meat is really sexy. Many people in this beef-loving nation reacted with surprise Thursday after Cristina Fernandez promoted pork in a speech during which she not only said pork is better than Viagra, but suggested she's personally proven it.

"I didn't know that eating pork improved sexual activity," Fernandez said in a meeting with representatives of the swine industry late Wednesday. "It is much more gratifying to eat some grilled pork than to take Viagra."

She even joked that "it was all good" after she enjoyed some pork with her husband, former President Nestor Kirchner.

"I think they might be right," Fernandez said to a laughing audience.

The president's half-joking speech in which she announced subsidies for the pork industry won prominent play on television and radio stations, prompting discussions on whether Argentines should add more pork to their diet.

Argentines are among the world's biggest consumers of red meat, and most people here stubbornly reject the idea of replacing beef with chicken, pork or other meats. Despite Argentina lying along rich South Atlantic fisheries, seafood is rarely seen on dinner tables.

Fernandez approved subsidies to keep the price of pork low despite inflation, and her government has also recently subsidized red meat producers after beef supplies sharply declined in the South American country.

The head of the association of pork producers, Juan Luis Uccelli, supported Fernandez's speech by saying that Denmark and Japan have a much more "harmonious" sexual life then the Argentines because they eat a lot of pig meat.

"In Osaka, Japan, there is a village in which the people who reached 105 years old and ate a lot of pork had a lot of sexual activity," he told radio Mitre.

Others were skeptical.

"There is no study showing that pork meat significantly improves sexual activity," Amado Bechara, a specialist in sexual disfunction, told the Web site of the newspaper La Nacion.



	Iowa Pork Princess Jessie Droppert of Hudson (left) and Washington County Pork Queen Natalie Friese (right), also Iowa Pork Queen, enjoy a turn at the wheel of a 2009 Pork Racing simulator that was displayed at the Washington County Pork Producers 2009 M Members of the No. 1 county in the nation for Pork Producer membership enjoyed their 2009 Membership Banquet, Saturday night, at the Riverside Casino. More than 140 people attended the Washington County Pork Producers event, which included a cocktail hour and a buffet dinner featuring pork loin, twice baked potatoes, pasta primavera, salad and a choice of desserts. Two members spoke briefly about the challenges pork producers will face in the future - retired Iowa Representative Sandra Greiner and her son, Iowa Pork Producer District Director Shaun Greiner. Mike Berdo, the 2008-09 president, introduced Sandra Greiner. He told the crowd that Greiner is most proud of the bills that never saw the light of day while she was a member of the Iowa Legislature. She served in the House and Senate for a total of 16 years. "We are in the midst of change and we're going to have to adapt," Sandra Greiner said. Shaun Greiner told his fellow members, "Things are not going to get easier for us down the road." Shaun spoke briefly about meat packing plants that are going to require hog producers to become Pork Quality Assurance Plus (PQA) and Transportation Quality Assurance (TQA) certified. He suggested that pork producers complete site inspections soon in order to qualify as PQA and TQA producers before the end of the year. According to Shaun, Washington County Pork Producers has more than 200 members, making the county No. 1 in Iowa and the nation. For the full story, see the Feb. 23 edition of The Washington Evening Journal Source

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