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Toyota literally doubles down on EVs in North Carolina with another $8 billion investment and 3,000 more jobs - Fortune

Toyota will invest an additional $8 billion in the hybrid and electric vehicle battery factory it’s constructing in North Carolina, more than doubling its prior investments and expected number of new jobs, the company announced Tuesday.

The Japanese automotive manufacturer projects the new investment will create about 3,000 additional jobs, bringing the total to more than 5,000 jobs, when its first U.S. automotive battery plant begins operations near Greensboro in 2025. The plant will serve as Toyota’s epicenter of lithium-ion battery production in North America and will be a key supplier for the Kentucky-based plant tasked with building its first U.S.-made electric vehicles, the company said.

Toyota’s fourth and largest investment in the North Carolina facility brings its total investment to about $13.9 billion to help meet its goal of selling 1.5 million to 1.8 million electric or hybrid vehicles in the U.S. by 2030. It will also add eight new production lines for electric and plug-in hybrid batteries.

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The French debate the future of steak frites - The Economist

In Europe today, meat is politics. Britain’s ruling Conservatives recently accused the Labour opposition (falsely) of plans for a “meat tax”. Poland’s outgoing governing party claimed (absurdly) that its opponents would force people to eat “worms instead of meat”. In France, where consumption per person of meat is twice the global average, the debate has taken a different twist: is it possible to be left-wing and still eat meat?

In the home of steak frites, red meat is more than a mere source of protein. It is an expression of muscular national identity; the farming of cattle, a guarantor of rural tradition. Steak, wrote Roland Barthes, a French literary theorist, in 1957, “communicates its national glamour” to its junior partner, the self-effacing chip. Over the past decade, however, worries about health and climate change have pushed even the French to eat less red meat. Last year their consumption of chicken overtook that of beef for the first time. In left-leaning, kale-eating quarters, le véganisme is on the rise.

So when Fabien Roussel, leader of the Communist Party and champion of the carcass-handling trades, last year confessed his enduring taste for a good steak, fellow left-wing leaders were horrified. In the fight against climate change, Sandrine Rousseau, a Green party figure, told the Communist chief last month: “You will not win with a steak.” It was high time, she snapped last year, for the French to stop treating steak as a “virility symbol”. Meat-eating, retorted Mr Roussel, has nothing to do “with what you have in your underwear”.

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Woman Burned By Cooking Spray Explosion Awarded $7 Million By Chicago Jury - Forbes

A woman who said she was injured by explosion of household cooking spray was awarded $7.1 million by a Chicago jury this week, in the first of 56 cases to go to trial against food packaging giant Conagra Brands.

Tammy Reese was cooking in Pennsylvania in 2017 when a large can of cooking spray she was using over-pressurized and exploded, igniting flames and catching the woman on fire, burning her arms, hands and face, her lawsuit claimed.

Her lawyers argued that the venting mechanism on the type of can manufacturer Conagra started using in 2011 for PAM and other cooking sprays—typically sold in an aerosol container that dispenses a liquid product under pressure—was “faulty, dangerous and prone to explosion.”

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