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This Week In Food: Sriracha Chips, A Proper Old Fashioned, and Pig Crates

Valentine's is over and now we can get back to the good ol' regular food stuff. Let's take a look at what this week brought us... Edwin reviewed the crepes at Thahn Ha in Westminster. He told us about the most expensive drink made at Starbucks so far, which involved 48 shots of espresso (why world? ... More >>

PETA Bringing Factory Farm to UC Irvine--You, Too, Can Get Into a Pig Crate!

Over the past couple of years, PETA and its members have really stepped up its presence in Orange County, and it's about time given that the group's senior vice president, Dan Mathews, is a Costa Mesa boy through and through. But tomorrow promises to bring one of PETA's highest-profile campaigns yet ... More >>

Florian-Ayala Fauna: Art Magickian

The charmed, young, multidisciplinary career of the Indio artist/musician

Animal Rights Group Claims Victory in Getting Newport-Mesa Schools to End Dissections

Newport-Mesa Unified School District's Board of Education president sent the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) a message Thursday revealing all its schools will end animal dissections, according to the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit anti-vivisection group. The district ... More >>

Silent River Film Fest Makes Noise with Movies About Animals, the Ecology and the 99 Percent

Kalpna Singh-Chitnis says the hardest part of staging last year's first ever Silent River Film Festival was mounting the sequel, which is scheduled for Thursday through Sunday in Irvine.Dealing with programming, logistics and clashing personalities in your first year is one thing, but now that the n ... More >>

Anaheim's Political Circus

PETA-Ringling Bros. war spills into Anaheim council chambers, where a circus-animal ban is proposed

Angels Stadium Makes PETA's List of Top 10 Vegetarian-Friendly Ballparks

I haven't been to an Anaheim Angels game in about two years, busy as I've been. But I gotta head down there this year to check out that kid Trout. And when I'm at Angels Stadium, I gotta check out their vegetarian options.The motivation comes in part from PETA's recent release of the 10 most vegetar ... More >>

Five Legal Foods Just As Cruel As Foie Gras

"Foie gras is cruel. Those poor ducks." The anti-foie gras people, of course, don't want to ban just foie gras. Many of them would like to ban meat altogether as cruel, forcing everyone to espouse a vegetarian diet. While there's nothing wrong with being vegetarian, let's not pretend that vegeta ... More >>

Orange County Fair Elephant Ride is Over

​The Orange County Fair Board, facing a crowd of more than 100 that included many animal advocates today, voted to end elephant rides.The news was cheered by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), which has sought bans on performing pachyderms around the country, and disdained by Have ... More >>

Foie Gras: 2012's Bacon, Or: Time to End the Foie Gras Follies

​Is it July yet? I can't wait for the day when foie gras is banned in California.Don't get me wrong; I love foie gras. There's nothing like a little medallion of seared foie gras and a small glass of Sauternes to ouvrir l'appétit, as the French would say. It shines perched atop a salade gasconne ... More >>

Ten Great Vegetarian Restaurants in OC

​Orange County, for all its Republican, meat-and-potatoes reputation, has a fantastic array of vegetarian restaurants; not just vegetarian, but vegan, and from a wide variety of ethnic traditions. We have little patience with hippy-dippy vegetarian places that skimp on flavor in order to emphasize ... More >>

Santa Ana Zoo Ends Elephant Ride

​Today's city of Santa Ana announcement that it is ending elephant rides at Santa Ana Zoo was cheered by animal rights activists. "Following more than a year of pressure from PETA, the Animal Protection and Rescue League, Animal Defenders International (ADI), and celebrities including Charo and ... More >>

Irvine Bans Retail Dog and Cat Sales, Rodeos and Circuses with Exotic Animals

​To the delight of animal rights activists and chagrin of the town's lone pet store owner and the lobby that represents such businesses, the Irvine City Council Tuesday night banned the retail sale of cats and dogs. The council further earned gold stars from the likes of Orange County People for A ... More >>

Omaima Aree Nelson: NSFW Shot of Nude Party Girl-Turned-Cannibal Wife

​From the bizarre--PETA seeking a vegan diet be a condition of cannibal wife Omaima Nelson's parole--we move now to the sublime:LIVE NUDE OMAIMA!OK, so she's not exactly live, and the NSFW photo after the jump could very well have been photoshopped. But it is definitely nude . . .

INFOGRAPH: Are You a Vegetarian?

​ Apparently, the stars have aligned and it's Vegetarian Weekend here in the United States of Where's-The-Beef.Today is Hug-A-Vegetarian Day, sponsored by those lovable but disturbed whackjobs over at PETA. Not content with trying to get fish renamed "sea kittens" and actually driving more busines ... More >>

[UPDATED with TV Star's Plea to End Santa Ana Zoo Rides:] OC Fair Begins and So Does Elephant Protest

​UPDATE, JULY 19, 7:29 A.M.: Constance Marie played Angie Lopez on ABC's George Lopez sitcom, and she's now Regina Vasquez on ABC Family's Switched at Birth.She's using her celebrity to issue this plea to Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido: Fire Have Trunk Will Travel as the elephant ride contractor at ... More >>

Five Musical Moments in the NBA Off-Season

After this year's dramatic NBA season, basketball fans may have to wait a long time before the league's owners and players agree to a new collective bargaining deal. The off-season normally allows fans to speculate over player trades and retirements, but given the current lockout, they'll have to se ... More >>

[UPDATED with Lawsuit:] Santa Ana Zoo Urged to Cut Ties with Elephant Ride Contractor in Wake of Abuse Alleged in Video

​UPDATE, JUNE 27, 10:40 A.M.: A Los Angeles-based animal rights group today announced the filing of a lawsuit against the contractor who runs the elephant rides at the Santa Ana Zoo.However, the suit does not concern the ride operations that have been blasted by advocates for animals but Perris-ba ... More >>

Seven Rap Songs about Eating Well

Buff Love aka The Human Beat Box​Last week, the USDA introduced a new symbol for healthy eating to replace the decades-old food pyramid long considered ineffectual. The new graphic, called "MyPlate," replaces the pyramid with a plate-shaped pie chart demonstrating the importance of making fruits a ... More >>

Online Petition Drive Targets Santa Ana Zoo Elephant Rides

Laura Goldman, who lives in Los Angeles, read an LA Times article last November about the Santa Ana Zoo's elephant rides, which have been blasted by animal-rights activists and defended by city officials."I thought it was bizarre that a zoo would offer elephant rides," Goldman tells me of her reacti ... More >>

This Week in Food: Luxe Loncheras, More Luxe Loncheras, and Even More Luxe Loncheras!

Photo by the Elmo MonsterOur requisite mention of Piaggio for the week!​We went luxe lonchera crazy this week, and even crazier in other departments. The bedlam after the jump!

[UPDATED: PETA Gives Posthumous Award] Moments After Saving a Dog From Traffic, Woman Struck and Killed by Motorist

FacebookMara Steves​UPDATE, FEB. 17, 10 A.M.: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) announced today that it will posthumously award Steves with its Compassionate Action Award for rescuing the dog."Mara died as she was helping another individual in trouble," said PETA President Ingrid ... More >>

A Year of Navel Gazing: The Virtual Orange County

Looking back at 2010 on our news blog, one Top 10 List at a time

Winter Solstice & Total Lunar Eclipse Coincide For First Time In 372 Years, But OC Won't See It

Going, going, gone.​There's an extremely rare, celestial happening tonight. It's the only time the winter solstice and a lunar eclipse will happen on the same night in our lifetime--so rare, in fact, that it didn't even happen between now and our great-great-great grandparents lifetime--and w ... More >>

Racist OC Register Reader Fustercluck of the Day

​Headline: Campaign Ads Targeting Illegal ImmigrantsComment by RDEIGHT: If current population trends continue, the U.S. population will reach 1.1 billion in the next century. This is exactly what Ted Kennedy swore wouldn't happen when he rammed his Immigration Act of 1965 through Congress ... Now ... More >>

As the Octomom World Turns

​Monday was a busy day on Planet Octomom. Nadya Suleman's fertility doctor, who may lose his medical license, announced he's seeking records from her other physicians, Suleman's landlord began foreclosure proceedings on her La Habra home, and Suleman announced via video she will not accept a $ ... More >>

Octomom Nadya Suleman's Home Now Owned by Attorney; Her Financial Situation More Dire

​Jeff Czech, the lawyer for Octomom Nadya Suleman, has taken over the title of her La Habra home. A review of public records shows that the title was transferred from the single mother of 14's father, Ed Doud, to Harmony Enterprises, Inc. which is owned by Czech.Suleman, who staved off her mortga ... More >>

Olivia Munn Goes From Promoting Horse Racing in OC to Damning Circus Animals in LA

​Olivia Munn--the gorgeous Maxim model, Daily Show correspondent and Suck It, Wonder Woman! The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek author--appeared last night at a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' protest against the Ringling Bros. circus at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.It's a tes ... More >>

Visit A Bar, Catch A Lobster... Maybe

Courtesy of CA Lobster Zone​"Have you ever played the lobster game?" "The lobster game?" "Yeah, the kind with the claw." "Is this some kind of sick pick-up line? If it is, you need more help than I can give you."

The Humane Society and Big Agriculture Slug It Out Over Animal Rights

This Week In Food

Craig Medici​Have you ever seen a more productive and livelier week on Stick a Fork In It? I haven't decided whether this makes my job of recapping it all (while Grace is on vay-kay) easier or harder. Let's see, so Dave "Ubergeek" Lieberman started the week a whole bunch of food-based pran ... More >>

Activists Hopping Mad at Brookstone Hawking African Dwarf Frogs

Brookstone.comSticker shock, at your local Brookstone retailer.​Local animal activists have joined a national campaign blasting gadgets store Brookstone, Inc., which has five Orange County locations, for selling a most unusual gift: the "Frog-O-Sphere Ecosystem" with two live African dwarf frogs.S ... More >>

Rub a Dub Dub Them Elephants Are Tubs!

Photo by Keith MaySpray today, perform tonight.Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus scored a rare two-fer today, generating attention to what it considers generous treatment of its performing animals and butts in seats for a 12-day run that begins tonight at the Honda Center. Actually, make ... More >>

Ringling Bros.: We Do Care For Our Animals

Photo by Keith May The media was out there, and so was the circus.Anyone who marveled at the incisive journalism and expert photography displayed in the coverage of animal-rights activist Melissa Sehgal's nude protest over Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus' upcoming Hon ... More >>

Urban Decay Voted Most Animal-Friendly Cosmetics Company

Newport Beach-based Urban Decay--which distributes lipsticks, nail polish and other products with names like Roach, Smog, Rust, Oil Slick and Acid Rain "inspired by the beautiful hues of America's urban landscape"--has been voted Best Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Company by PETA's youth&nbs ... More >>

NBFF: That's a wrap for 2008

I've been hesitant to write the final blog post in the festival because doing so would acknowledge that it's over. But all things must pass. And if you gotta go out, go out with a blowout: the closing night party concluded with a massive electricity blackout at the Lido and surrounding area. Since t ... More >>

To Do Tonight - 02/13

MARS BARS PROTEST, 7 p.m. Harold Schmitz, chief science officer of Mars candy bars, is set to speak on the future of chocolate. But this isn't cool with PETA, whose members plan to wear body paint in M&M colors and hold banners protesting Mars-funded lab testing. Beckman Center, 100 Academy, Irvine ... More >>

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