If you’re ready to pop a few chicken nuggets into the microwave for a quick snack, please read our lead article. You will thank us later because today in The Conversation Canada, food safety expert Jeffrey Farber of the University of Guelph writes about new research that shows many online food recipes contain unsafe food preparations instructions – like assuming chicken nuggets are pre-cooked. Undercooking or microwaving the nuggets can lead to the survival of salmonella, which can make you very sick.

Other stories for your consideration as we all head into the holiday weekend:

• Tony Robert Walker of Dalhousie University writes about the latest plans by the world’s 60,000 merchant ships to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions – a major challenge for the shipping industry.
• As nationalism continues to rise in many countries around the world, historian Ian McKay of McMaster University looks at the pitfalls of liberal democracy that can be traced to putting property rights ahead of the rights of people.
• A team of economic and child-care experts from the University of Toronto has written a thorough analysis of new policies by the Ontario government which promised to help parents access quality child care, but in fact will result in the closing of thousands of affordable day care for low-income families.

And finally…Saturday is Mullivailkkal Genocide Remembrance Day, which marks the 10th anniversary of the Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka. Sharry Aiken of Queen’s University and Cheran Rudhramoorthy of the University of Windsor look back at that terrible event and why it’s never received the same amount of attention as the Rwanda genocide that happened 25 years ago.

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