When you go directly to the farmer you know what you getting, but what about in pubs, restaurants and other dinning areas? Well one in five samples from 40 pubs and restaurants in the south west of England proved to be foreign meat; makes you think doesn’t it?

If you were to buy something described as a “local meat”, how far would you think it had actually travelled? 5, maybe 10, miles? Well the BBC found that it could be more like thousands of miles.

In 20% of the tested pubs and restaurants, steak and beef was actually from humped zebu cattle which can only be found in dry and arid areas of the world.

Your local restaurant and pubs might be charging you the local premium for a foreign cheap meat and you’ll never know the difference. The law says butchers must be able to prove exactly where the meat they sell comes from, restaurants should have to do the same.

Diabetes mellitus, which is commonly known only as diabetes, is characterized by abnormally high level of sugar in the blood.

Symptoms may not be present if the level of blood sugar is elevated only mildly. The basic symptoms of this disease are: excessive production of urine, increased fluid intake, excessive thirst, blurred vision, lethargy and sudden and unexplained loss of weight. The high level of sugar in the blood is due to the low level of insulin, which is a hormone secreted by the pancreas in order to maintain a normal blood sugar level.

If you’re a fan of subway you might want to turn away and stop reading because this may come as a shock to you.

A sub way 12inch could end up sending more calories into your body then a large big Mac meal. It’s all in the power of how they advertise and how they use the association with green and fresh food being healthy, it’s not so don’t be sucked in.

Take a look at that little napkin they usually have on their tables for wiping your mouth and hands with after, it tells you how many calories are in each thing you take, however, notice what’s not there: the contents of carbs in the bread, the contents of the drink and cookie you get, its about time we started asking questions and stopped being misled.

BAA, the Spanish owned company which runs the three biggest airports in the UK, might soon see itself split up and forced to sell its assets. If the competition commission find their acquisitions not to be in the publics’ best interests in August, they’ll be split and sold.

Manchester airports group (MAG) said that if they were forced to sell they would be interested in buying Gatwick airport as they think they can improve the performance and lower prices.

Personally I’ve never liked BAA’s market dominance in the UK, so hopefully the competition committee will split the firm up. However, maybe handing it to the second biggest wouldn’t be so smart.

In short, it is, but let me convince you first:

• Value of house - £875,000

• Two allowances - £624,000

• Amount chargeable to tax at 40% - £251,000

• Tax due at 40% - £100,400

This 40% tax rate is of such a rate that parents will often transfer their homes well before death (if the home is transferred over 7 years from death it will no longer be taxable) and causes entrepreneurs to simply move the money abroad. I see the government’s angle, they don’t want people to be feeding off of their parents, but isn’t that the point in building a better life from scratch? Why should it be taken away because the government wants to buy a £1m fountain on a roundabout (that recently happened near me).

A monopoly is, technically, 100% of the market share; however, getting to that stage is impossible so the legal term of a monopoly is now 25% of the market share. At 25% the competition commission takes a look at the business and at 40% they start to see if it’s in the best interests of the public to split the firm. But monopolies have their advantages.

When a business has a monopoly, the firm benefits from economies of scale: Higher technological positioning (they’re able to buy the newest equipment), bulk buying (which usually brings down the cost to customers) as well as a multitude of other things.

The argument against monopolies is that they can exploit the market and remove fair play by using extreme barriers to entry, look at Microsoft as an example.

In my opinion the legal term of a monopoly needs to be 40% because at 25% there’s still a 75% market against them who are very competitive (look at the supermarkets market share).

We Americans have become so accustomed to using water bottles but are they really that safe? If you are unsure, take a look at the video after the break.