away trader joe's shouldn't be singled out it's just one company among many routes vons safeway whole foods cosco sam's club and many others throw away staggering amounts of food every day but stores are only part of the problem of food waste all of us throughout perfectly good food on a daily basis we let it rot in our refrigerators we toss leftovers because they don't sound good or were afraid because we don't know enough about food to judge whether or not it's edible wasting food is a bad habit that permeates all of society implicating all of us in the problem which means we're all responsible for creating a solution. probably not a lot going on forty percent of. all help hold it for about. a year what we saw was among younger people under thirty. one point. they don't know when i've gone bad there's a fear that this this half is bad i think are here. these eggs bring up a good point about. a little bit about food safety here. i have never been sick eating dumpster food my family has never been sick and i have to be really careful i'm feeding a small child trash essentially. so you start

look at the valuations at these levels, it's getting a new high today for whole foods and we think there'soing to be a lot of competition coming in there. they had a new -- they reinvented the whole supermarket experience. we're going to sell whole foods. >> wagman's pretty good too. ford the 13th top gainer. shares up 623%. a lot of people still think there's an upside. what do you think? >> we're going to buy ford. unlike whole foods, ford has just balanced out. it's been trading in the $1200 range recently. we think the nemove will be to e upside. cutting costs really reigned in the cost, we think the next move on ford could be back to the highs of about a year ago. >> it's not at the highs from the last three years. international -- we haven't talked when we talk about these things you don't think of international paper being one of them, but it's ninth in terms of top gainer in the s&p. we're talking 700% gain. that's a long way to go. can it keep going? >> it can. international paper is really a play on the u.s. economy. to sum it up, they're making boxes. if the economy recovers, pe

. >> we got them right at whole foods. all the mexican style foods. >> the last ingredient we'll put in this, instead of using frank's hot sauce, a little smoked paprika. cook it with a little bit of onions and butter. very simple dish. a little chopped parsley. that's wonderful. >> hurry up. you're killing me. >> meanwhile we'll serve it can true tons -- croutons. so that is it in a nutshell. now it's up to you whether you want to try it. >> what i did is i made a turkey chili. it's a little less fat than the normal beef and steak or something like that i put in a lot of vegetables. we have four different kinds of beans, pinto, kidney, black beans and black eyed peas. we've got some celery, tomatoes. then we have the seasonings, can chili powder of course, cumin, chipotle peppers. >> your theme. >> you want to get all that smoky flavor in there and of course some smoked paprika and the chili peppers. >> this is perfect food whatever beverage you happen to be consuming. >> this you can get ready the day before, put it on th

the key here is whole foods. whole foods has shown it's possible to sell organic food and make a nice profit. >> the way it's looking now, it's always a tricky game. nobody anticipated them to up the price. that's a good price. >> that's a good indicator. here's another interesting set for you, bob. we're seeing a pick jum from foreign companies buying american. according to capital iq data, foreign buyers of u.s. companies are up 42% year to date. nearly $30 billion year to date. that's just 2012. that's come beared to $20.8 billion the same time a year ago. that's from rich peterson at standard & poorand poor's. and analysts say any savings may be going right into consumers' gas tanks. >>> let's take a look at gas trading at this hour. right now natural gas, you can see it, $2.20. that's down another 1%. consumer confidence pulls pack in march but it's still near the one-year high. the confidence board's confidence index dropped to 72. that's down from the revised 71.6. they say they'll keep spending. and the s

can find it at whole foods. we're putting in cauliflower, green swisschard, all things you can find in yours grocery store. >> this is a vegetarian option. >> excellent vegetarian option, vegan option. it has garlic, onions, a simple sauce to make. you roast everything, puree it and you're done. >> this smells fantastic. let me ask you about the festival you have coming up. this is march 5 through the 8th. >> the 18th. >> the 18th, okay. >> the second week we're celebrating tequila. we'll also in that time be doing tastings. we have various distillers coming in. >> i'm stepping back because there's lots of popping going on. >> they'll be doing tastings of their products and we'll be doing special dinners that people can buy tickets to. you can come in and we'll do pairings with both cocktails anded food. the distillers will be there to talk to folks as well. >> for people who aren't maybe tequila people, there will be options as well with pairings or go for the tequila. >> you have to kind of go for it. we're ce

it has a hashtag that says amex whole foods. you tweet the words amex whole foods.he next time you go to whole foods, use your american express card. they will put the discount in automatically. now, you are promoting to your friends, but you know what, it's 20 bucks so there you go. okay. sony tv says -- we'll talk about that. sony is getting to be a lot more like apple today. they are paring down the number of television settles they sell, the number of models. after all, you can count on two hands what apple sells. right? sony sells hundreds of products. they're pairing it down. also, they're going to make one price. if you notice when you go and buy an apple product that says the apple store or you go to target it's the same price? well, sony's learned from that as well. so fewer sony products at one price, marla, a little more like apple. >> interesting. thanks, scott. >>> 5:25. move over, sharks. there's another pro hockey team lacing up skates in the bay area. the san francisco bulls will unveil the team's jersey tonight at 5:30. the team officially takes the

companies like best buy, whole foods, and amazon.com are already offering deals on twitter.om line. if you tweet about whole foods, for example, a positive tweet, you get a discount when you shop there using your amex. >> everyone's an advertiser walking around. all right, rob mayeda. >> advertising warm-up during the afternoon. tonight with the clear skies we have temperatures tonight that will be in the 30s. tomorrow mild temperatures. friday will be the warmest day of the week. we're going to get a lot of 70s through the week. rain possibly for the north bay. then by the middle of the next week, it's going to start raining again. as soon as you get used to the 70s, winter comes back. >> tweet about nice weather and we'll get nice weather. >> hopefully. look me up on twitter. >> nightly news is next. we'll see you again for more local news coming up at 6:00.

whole foods market, it's the world's largest retailer of natural and organic foods.ty of crackers there, but also a seemingly endless amount of food items to put on a cracker. thank you very much. but don't worry. nobody goes home empty handed here. as a consolation prize, you get a $150 gift certificate to whole foods. [ cheers and applause ] hey, buddy. how you doing, buddy? >> my mom said i could wear my sunglasses again! >> jimmy: well, then just put them on. >> okay. oh, no. they broke. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: that's all the time we have for "put it on a cracker." [ cheers and applause ] stick around. be right back with jennifer lawrence, everybody! congratulations. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ [ hailey ] my blackberry is part of every cupcake i make. i check my orders, i talk to customers, operate my website. i sleep with my blackberry. i use it 24 hours a day. i couldn't run my business without it. [ male announcer ] blackberry bold. be bold. i couldn't run my business without it. but not for your eyes. they're still so tired-looking. with olay, challenge th

whole foods sends out the message tweet hashtag amex whole foods and get one $20 credit at the storeough the end of the month. you tweet something like just spent my whole paycheck a at #amexwholefoods, and the next time you shop at whole foods and spend more than $75 and use your american express card, you'll get that discount at the register no muss, no fuss. as laura points out, you have to be willing to send tweets to your friends promoting a story. but, hey, it's 20 bucks. >>> let's talk about sony. you may have heard ap sl announcing something today. sony is, too, and it has an apple tie. sony radically paring down the number of model tvs it offers. it will also ask stores to sell them at one price. you know how you go to an apple store and get the same price as you would at a target store and you can name the number of apple products on two hands? they've had great success with that. sony is going to copy that. the yes, the big news today is apple. but sony coming up on it. >> very, very interesting. >> thanks, scott. >> i can have that american express card if you want to han

>> we asked the top-10 grocers and whole foods. these companies did not respond or had no comment. the owners of stop and shop and giants say that the use the product. safeway said that the government review says that it is safe. these stores said that there be at all.k slime >> i do not know how i could costco member that put trend that has been treated with ammonia in their ground beef. like gelatin than beef. the primary manufacturers said abc news that it is usda e beef added is nutritious. additive,not an label is necessary. what are you asking me to put on the label? is beef. it is a beef product, it is on the label. it is beef. >> 7 news on your side with a teens andng report on smoking. one out of high school students still smokes. smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the u.s. than 600,000 that middle smoke.students is the first comprehensive look at debt to nearly two decades. >> caring for alzheimer's a bigts is becoming economic burden. it will cost the u.s. $200 to care for millions the cognitive disease. expected tois than $1 by more trillion by 2015. m

reach for whole food type snacks. not something in those middle aisles that looks like a healthier junk food. >> thanks. appreciate it. the time is 6:28. 33 degrees on tv hill. danger in the sky. what caused two airlines to make emergency landings. >> i'm rob roblin. the company is called "premiere rides." they are making another premiere ride. that story coming up. >> it is a little cold right now, but we will be warming up over the neck couple of days. the insta-weather plus forecast is just ahead. i was shocked to find out how many couples don't sleep in the same bedroom. but in the sleep number store, we hear it all the time. yeah, nine out of ten couples disagree on the firmness they want in a mattress. i sleep on the couch. with our bed, the sleep number setting represents the firmness that you like on your half of the mattress. don't mess with my side because i'm comfortable. i can adjust mine to my liking and she can do the same. go ahead and switch sides so you can feel what the other side feels like. you're

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. >> whole foods making a pledge, how that could change the way you buy fish. >>> and the ruling in.e government has decided to do about bpa in plastic which some say is toxic. sweetheart. we need to talk. i've seen your stunts online. i can explain... jumping a ramp in a shopping cart. so 2005. wait, what? and only 3 likes? honey, it's embarrassing. carol's son got over 12 million views on that dancing squirrel video. don't you want that? i...i suppose. now go make your dad and me proud. tryomething funny. [ male announcer ] now everyone's up to speed. get high speed internet for $14.95 a month for 12 months with a one year term. at&t. . >>> whole foods said starting april 2nd it'll sale only sustainable seafood so no more caught in the wild and rated red. the color code indicating over fished or caught in a way that harms other species. those ratings from the monterey aquarium. and cod caught by trollers. >> advocatesl. a battle over the bpa, a petition was rejected to ban it from food packaging. >> there is no good way for a consumer to know it's in the product >> a plastic harden

going to have this antioxidant properties, there are compounds found in plant- based foods, your fruits and vegetables. whole grains, plant-based foods is our focus when we're talking about overall prevention and cancer care. >> reporter: including an emphasis on beans and la giewms, healthy oil and avoidance of read and -- red and pro sesd meats. taste changes, severe nausea and mouth sores with cancer treatment. the integrated approach here means there are several specialists helping patients cope with all of that as well. >> the physicians of course are going to have medications but we also have natural doctors and dieticians like myself. we focus on the foods, whole foods that can help them work on like ginger teas. >> again the best way -- the best nutritional way to fight cancer is with the colorful plant-based diet. we have recommended recipes created by nutritionists on the health page of our website wusa9.com. >>> believe it or not, most of us tend to eat all day long. we try to convince ourselves it's okay, it's just a snack. >> a 2010 study from the university of north carolina found that all our

when it's on your mind, it's on ebay. those five food groups sound a whole lot better when you put themin a taco shell instead of a pyramid. old el paso. when you gotta have mexican. fantastic! pro-gresso ] they fit! okay-y... okay??? i've been eating progresso and now my favorite old jeans...fit. okay is there a woman i can talk to? [ male announcer ] progresso. 40 soups 100 calories or less. what do you think of this one? really? what's this? this is a rose i made from a turnip. let's try together. perfect. two worlds that fit in one kitchen. come in today and save up to 20% on a kitchen from ikea. >> the fact is we are not allowed to have anybody that has an outstanding warrant against them on the program and you've got four of them against you. >> you have put us in a really delicate position >> i apologize. >> we have to let you go i'm afraid i am sorry it is the end of the road. >> i really am too. we both just listened to you sing and you are absolutely fantastic. >> that is the best song you have ever song it is fabulous. >> thank you so much for the opportunity and everything.

you can pick them up at whole foods or online. >> using chocolate to decorate. >> exactly. a lot of fun things you can do with chocolate. our symbols are traditional. one thing we like to do is do a lot of activities around the symbol. today i'm wearing our rub on tattoo. >> can we get a shot of that symbol. in the meantime we'll try and get that. >> you can see that guy right there. one thing you can do is you can use the symbols to decorate your chocolate so each one carries its own meaning. this one means cooperation. you can use a great little white chocolate pen and decorate cookies. >> a great idea for chocolate and fair trade giving it back to the growers as well. amanda, thanks for being with us. >> thanks so much for having me. >> jessica, take it away. >> thank you. >>> we've been combing through today's daily deals to find you some deep discounts. here are some of our favorites today. kgb deals is offering a deal to tantalize your taste buds. you can get eight taste tickets for the taste of arlington. it's $15. you're getting 50% off here. the taste of arlington

>> [ male announcer ] for some reason those five food groups sound a whole lot better when you put them in a taco shell instead of a pyramid. old el paso. when you gotta have mexican. this reduced sodium soup says it may help lower cholesterol, how does it work? you just have to eat it as part of your heart healthy diet. step 1. eat the soup. all those veggies and beans, that's what may help lower your cholesterol and -- well that's easy [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. >>> dash cam video from a police trooper's cruiser captured a short but scary chase. the suv up ahead crashes into a gasoline tanker. >> oh. >> carrying about 8,000 gallons of fuel. the suspect in that suv jumps out of the car. police chase him down and arrest 43-year-old brian yelly on suspicion of stealing an suv earlier in the day. you think this could be bad it gets even worse. >> a gas truck, that's the worse thing you can run into. at first it doesn't look like it will be that bad. moments later flames erupt, now the police cruiser backs his car out of the way. everybody else flees and gives

i want you in whole foods. i like growth! let's go to greg in kentucky. greg. >> caller: jim, boo-yah! >> nice boo-yah right back at you. >> caller: jim, there's a notion of north american food all bottled up in the middle of our continent with no straw to move it through. there's a small group of refiners that have easy access to this low price crude. what do you think? >> i still think the refinery business is cutthroat. this stock has had a big run. i don't want to own the refiners. be careful, when that seaway pipeline is reversed, you won't make a lot of money, and that's going to happen in about three months. joshua in arizona. joshua. >> caller: boo-yah, cramerica. >> cramerica's rocking on its eighth year. what's going on? >> caller: yeah. it's good. >> it is good. >> caller: i wanted to ask you about the stock egr. >> good yield, absolutely. you know what? when it comes to tobacco, which means i'm going to send you to mo. if you want a good yield, i am going to send you to pm, which is the spinoff, philip morris, if you want growth. and let's go

it's because of whole foods. look at this. five years of whole foods.. it's not that whole foods takes annie's foods and sells it, that's not the point. the point is organics foods is a very, very hot market and whole foods has proven you can make the model work. the company is small, but they have tremendous growth potential. when people look at that chart, that's why this one is a hot product right now. >> bob, the investing philosophy world, i never knew annie's was going to be a public company. i see the pleretzels in the hou. my kids eat the pretzels. if you like pretzels, you know the annie's pretzels everywhere. >> organic macaroni and cheese, snack crackers, fruit snacks, organic, the whole thing. let me point out what's going on on housing. lennar's numbers were huge. gary, here's what i'm worried about. big home builders like lennar are trading two times book value. i used to be the real estate reporter. when you get over 1 1/2 times book value, that gets on the high side. fully priced. >> we've seen valuation calls on home builders this year.

he's not ready to consume whole food yesterday, but his top and bottom incisors are comingle mo the back>> how much does he weigh now? he was five pounds. >> 9 1/2 pounds. >> big and strong. nice. >> has he learned his name? does he respond to it yet? >> he's not quite at that level yet. >> is he on display yet? >> yes, people have been able to see him for a while now. we're in the animal nursery for several hours throughout the day. >> are there any other baby animal coming up that we could name steven? any donkeys? >> it is springtime, i'm sure there will be some baby goats. we will see what we can work out. >> steven the goat. >> that's fine, too. >> that's my spirit animal, the goat. >>> get ready to be impressed, steven. >> i'm ready. >> this is alexander koblikov, juggling ten balls. watch this. not only that, he does a pirouette and keeps on juggling. >> there are like eight of these in the air at the same time. how do you control -- >> i don't know. koblikov lives in the ukraine, and he went to a school in kiev where he learned to juggle. it is not easy. this guy is one of the be

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according to an on-line publication, whole foods and costco do not sell meat treated with ammonia. safeway wal-mart and our sins do sell meat that " contains " lean finely textured be or what has become known as peat slime. albertson's to the disease by some of its suppliers. go to our website for the full statement. >> there is one sure-fire way that men and stay home and watch march madness, hysterectomies. doctors are seeing a big jump right now poured into getting the procedure. >> jeremy has three days off to set up home and watch basketball. in recent surgery was scheduled around march madness >> i got a vasectomy on tuesday because i figured it was time to stop having kids >> disease the old procedure for male sterilization. it was the only way he could watch the games all day honor interrupted with of feeling guilty. the procedure takes about 15 minutes. afterwards men are encouraged to take easy >> the pain was not too bad. seeing my wife go through labor, i did not want to be a wimp. a lot of putting and cooling. >> this doctor says he has seen a 50% increase the diehard

a portion of that traffic is retailers, it includes whole foods, martha stewart and west el.novative ways to connect with consumers. and the biggest group of pinners are smart retail's most sought-after 55% of the site's traffic comes from 18 to 34-year-olds making $30,000 to $99,000 a year, the majority of whom are females from the midwest and the south. unusual, but critical top markets. so is the growth too far too fast? the site has just 20 employees. a key reason it's invitation-only now. can it continue to propel the pinsanity. if you're pinterested, pin mandy. >> let's bring in lou at second shares.com. you just started the social internet fund investing, i believe, in private shares of rapidly growing media companies. you've got facebook and clout among them. but why isn't pinterest in there? >> pinterest shares are hard to get today because it's such a sp spectacularly growing site. the reason it's growing so fast is because it's leveraging facebook. when you join pinterest, the first thing it does is connects you to everybody on all of your facebook friends who are

they say to many people have complained about it, whole foods, cosco and safeway have also done it. buy a slack or dresses and they don't fit. you return them as long as you have the receipt and tags, no problem. >> but john warns us abs a item that's no longer easy to exchange so you don't wastey your money. >> reporter: shopper are used to returning things they don't like or that don't fit well. there is one type of product that's becoming more and more difficult to return, as prices get higher and that's shoes. everybody know that pats made for walking, nancy said that back in 1966. >> these boots are made for walking. >> reporter: melissa didn't think twice of wearing these 100 boots a few times to make sure they fit. >> i wore them about four days and get about two and a half wear out of them. then the last one my -- the top of my foot started throbbing. >> reporter: after eight hours of gentle use she said she decided they wouldn't work. >> i wanted the money back. >> reporter: she returned to the store only to learn she couldn't return them. >> not out doing farm work or you

among companies taking part in the offer, whole foods, zappos and mcdodged's and h and m. >>> trisha yearwood is cooking up something big. she is going to be hosting a brand new show on the food network called trisha's southern kitchen. she will shoot the show in nashville tennessee and cook her favorite family recipes. in addition to her music career, and cooking, the husband garth brooks she has published two best selling cookbooks. it premiers on april 14th. >> very cool. >>> homeland security are now working on city police helping to curb crime. >> a major gun ring is busted in baltimore city. i am linda so. what police uncovered. >>> i am sherrie johnson live where there's been police presence all morning after two royal farms stores were robbed. live details coming glupt rain will leave-- >>> well, the rain will leave and the wind will drop. >>> as you head out for the friday morning, what can you expect? we have the latest conditions on area roadways up next. >>> friday morning march 9th this is your abc2 news to go i am megan prink neil let's check off a check of the forecast

. >>> the whole foods grocery chain says they will stop selling seafood that is not considered sustainableill start on earth day april 22nd. relying on monterey bay aquarium they say they stop stocking seafood that is caught in a way that harms others species. >>> dancing should be left to the dance really had it wrong today. coming up, the dance move that suddenly popped up around the bay area. >>> and the weekend will likely get off to a wet start around the bay area. meteorologist mark tamaia tells us where to expect an inch of rain. you can watch all of our newscasts on the computer. we are streaming live for you at ktvu.com . >>> the south san francisco unified school district is going green. the state superintendent was on hand for the flipping of a switch. 15 districts, 15 schools, that is in that district will be able to generate most of their own power thanks to solarpanels. they expect to cut the annual electricity usage in half and reduce its carbon footprint. the project was funded by a ballot measure passed back in 2010. >> tomorrow morning, heavy rainfall expected in the next

manufacture grow kits that are stocked in more than a thousand stores, including home depot and whole foodsain raw material is not only free but we're making a profit on it. this year, we're projected to do $5 million in sales. >> they've built an amazing business out of coffee grounds. >> we learned about back to the roots from billy parish. he featured them in a new book he co-wrote called "making good." parish says it's about more than the mushroom. >> any waste stream in our society can be turned into a revenue stream. another way to look at it is, it's turning the lemons in our society into lemonade. >> parish dropped out of yale to become a climate change analyst activist and runs a solar energy investment company. >> you want to do well and you want do good. >> that's exactly it. we think people can have more. >> they say they do. originally planning on conventional careers in finance, today they couldn't imagine being anything but mushroom farmers. >> it really is a result of the last five, ten years, what we've seen going up and seeing the chaos which resulted from traditional busi

. >> reporter: safeway and supervalu join publix, heb, whole foods and costco, promising their ground beef contains no pink slime. what is next? kroger is providing answers to shoppers who ask which of its beef is slime-free. meat departments have the list and we shared it widely on our facebook page. over at walmart, the nation's largest grocery store, silent until tonight. we send abc news news producers inside to find out. >> we asked several employees, including the meat manager -- none of whom could tell us. >> reporter: tonight a answer from the headquarters. soon, they will off a no pink slime option. >> jim is here. let me understand what kroger is saying. they are going to answer your question if you ask at the butcher counter what has pink slime in it and what doesn't? >> absolutely. they say the butch erp has a list and he will tell you which of the meats have pink slime in it. >> since it's a lower cost filler, any of the super markets professioning to keep the price the same? are they going to raise the price? >> safeway and albertsons says they will not raise the. >> fro

i do like whole foods. they get treated different ly than other stores do. the issue here, i would be supportive and we could put some things in place. one of the things i would want is however we could put something in about the local hiring, whether -- to meet the goals of the 100% local hiring. the condition about beer and wine sales only. that was their intent anyway. but i think if we put that in there, beer and wine would be the only thing they could sell, that would help. most kids are not trying to steal wine other grocery store. if that is the case, the issue around self check out, if they are allowing people to come in and steal all call, that is a quick way to be out of -- steel alcohol, that is a quick way to be out of business. maybe there is a line that is not self check out. maybe we can create some protection around that issue. the other issue i have heard is wic, and we can make that as a condition of approval when they apply when it is available and offer it in -- and any of your sort of program that allows assistance for people to eat. i t

. >> reporter: whole foods and cosco already promise their beef is free of it. mcdonalds and burger king have stopped using it. >> when a company is told a consumer has a problem or is hurt by a product they are supposed to tell the consumer safety commission. >> we found increase in the number of businesses busted for not reporting. investigators from the safety commission took this picture of the weed whacker. >> it hit my shin and through the jeans. . >> reporter: leaving him bleeding. we are learned he was one of 158 people hurt by the recalled device. the feds say the maker was knowingly failed to report several safety defects or hazards immediately to the cpsc as required by law. others a result the company was hit which a fine just under a million dollars. >> upsetting when i hear that they just kind of ignored it. >> reporter: our investigation found a disturbing trend. the number of companies punished for not reporting safety defects is growing. in 2010 they had to fine two companies more than a half million dollars. in 2011 it increased to ten and the

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whole foods was saying organic foods can be sold profitly. on valuation and very importantly they said they only have about 2% upside to the price because it's gone up. it's gone from $10 a few years ago to $85 a day essentially. so i think that's the important thing. we're waiting to see. by the way, when you're 2 28, that's a very wide indication. that's not going to open. they're still trying to figure out where the demand is. that fellow over there is standing there, taking orders from the guys who are here yelling at him. these are guys, these fellows are employees. they're yelling at them as well as the other guys. >> yes. they're all around. >> they're on the phone with them standing there saying this is what the orders are. this is very much an ongoing process. elsewhere i think we're seeing the weakness here is the risk off trade here again. we're seeing the australian dollar under pressure, spain under pressure, bank stocks in europe. material stocks in europe all under pressure. so it's the general concerns about slower global grow

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and whole foods assured us they don't use pink slime. no word yet from the rest. but know this -- if your meat is stamped usda organic, it's pure meat, no questionable filler. but everything else is suspect, say critics, because pink slime does not have to appear on the label. and the usda is giving no indication it will force meatpackers to lift the veil of secrecy anytime soon. jim avila, abc news, washington. >> and jim answers a lot more of your questions, posted online at our website at abcnews.com. keep sending them to us. and let us know what your supermarkets say when you ask them about what's in the meat. >>> and another word about the food in every american home. word that the soda giants coke and pepsi will be tweaking their secret recipes. they're going to change how the ingredients that give soda its brown hue is made. it's called caramel color. and the new recipe will call for less of the chemical 4mei. a california law would have forced coke and pepsi to label their soda with a cancer warning. with this change, they don't have to. you can be the jud

publix, costco, h.e.b., and whole foods assured us they don't use pink slime. everything else is suspect, say critics, because pink slime does not have to appear on the label and the usda is giving no indication it will force meat packers to lift the veil of secrecy anytime soon. jim avila, abc news, washington. >> that's stunning to me. they wouldn't force them to unveil -- we should have a right to read that ingredient list on our food and know whether the pink slime is in there or not. why would you not force the meat makers out there and the manufacturers to let us know that? that seems an awfully odd and not health-conscious decision. >> i know that diane sawyer and "world news" encouraged viewers to go to abcnews.com and weigh in. and pressure your grocery store. ask them, is pink slime in the meat? is it in the ground beef? and let us know. >> keep your fingers crossed that they're honest. >> costco, whole foods say no. >> ask them. doesn't hurt to ask. >>> well, a texas mother is apologizing for her teenage son after his dangerous drive was captured on

. >> whole foods will no longer sell wild caught red-rated seafood, that's seafood that is caught in a way harms other species. it will go in effect april 2, which is appropriately earth day. >> it took more than a month of construction and ren novation, but there is a new giant supermarket in town in the place of the former pressure and green supermarket along west 33rd street. the new giant location is now officially open forbids. giant officials ren rated 85% of the store after purchasing the facility back in february. improvements include a full-service floral department, a deli, and community cafe, and customers seem to like what they see. >> i like it. it is bright, it is sunny. the selection has increased exponentially from the old giant. >> the size, the cleanliness. >> it replaces the giant location at the rotunda. first a look at events going on around town this weekend. >> it is the day maryland horse racing fans have been waiting for. old hill top is finally awakened from its slumber. 11 news reporter kate amara has more. >> we love it here. we love coming to the track. t