Subject: U.S. Department of Agriculture

• Hair of the Dog: Not just for hangovers or hot dogs anymore

  When it comes to the Bush administration, it's not so much that rules are made to be broken, it's that rules are made so laws can be broken. The administration issues rules on "interrogations" of "detainees" that violate international law and various treaty obligations. And rules on wiretapping that violate laws which have been in place since the days when George W. Bush was a blackout drinker. Hours could be wasted counting the ways the Bush administration has abused the rules making process, a

  March 19, 2006

• The Game Goes On

  You may remember this Arnold Schwarzenegger commercial from the recall election, which described how Sacramento works: "Here's how it works. Money goes in. Favors go out. The people lose. We need to send a message. Game over." Well, if you thought you were sending a message by voting for Schwarzenegger, you were wrong. Because in the land of Governor Schwarzenegger, it's still Game On. In this morning's San Diego Union-Tribune, Bill Ainsworth reports that "Schwarzenegger has carried on the

  August 28, 2006

• ND Beats CA

  If, as the governor recently asserted, California is both the new Athens and the new Sparta, where the future of America is busily being created, then what the hell is North Dakota? Because in one patch of the future, North Dakota is set to leave California in the dust. The state best known for frostbite, Fargo, and the Lawrence Welk Birthplace museum (not to be confused the Lawrence Welk Museum in Escondido), is set to become to the first state to have a farmer growing hemp. Not the sort of h

  January 16, 2007

• Best Beef Recall EVER

  Chino! Ew!

  February 18, 2008

• Beefy Goodness

  Apparently it's not just happy cows that come from California.The Times reported earlier today that the state Department of Public Health has released a list of Southern California food retailers linked to the Chino-based slaughterhouse responsible for the largest beef recall in United States history. The USDA ordered the recall of 143 million pounds of beef Sunday after the Humane Society released a video of workers at the Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. shoving sick and/or crippled cows with forkl

  February 28, 2008

• Baby Hewie Attempts Stupidest Smear in History

  With his book subject Mitt Romney (thankfully) out of the presidential race, Orange County's own nationally syndicated yackmouth Hugh Hewitt is desperately trying to remain relevant in this year's presidential race by trotting out the lamest smear attempt since Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama's middle name. Here and here, Baby Hewie tries to make an issue of Obama's 1995 memoir Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. "It has to be the most unusual book ever by a presidentia

  March 25, 2008

• Foods to Show Country of Origin

  According to various news reports and this one from ABC News, beginning this week, the USDA is requiring that all food retailers label some foods with their country of origin. The law, called COOL (Country of Origin Labeling) will mandate that the consumer is informed where all "raw beef, veal, lamb, pork, chicken, goat, wild and farm-raised fish and shellfish, fresh or frozen fruits and vegetables, peanuts, pecans, macadamia nuts and whole ginseng" are from. Amid the widening Chinese milk sca

  September 30, 2008

• A Guide to Our Advertisers

  July 1, 1999

• A guide to our Advertisers

  June 29, 2000

• The Year in Rebuke

  January 4, 2001

• The $1.50 Costco Hot Dog: Hebrew National Out...Kirkland Brand In

  I don't usually read the Costco Connection -- the corporate propaganda Coscto puts out every month and sends to every member in the mail -- but this month is different. The cover story was all about the food court, its past and future. And I've gotta say: it was quite an interesting read -- especially if you've enjoyed the $1.50 hot dog and drink combo like I have, which we dubbed as the Best Hot Dog on our 2007 Best Of Issue.  To read the whole article, CLICK HERE. But here are some of

  March 6, 2009

• Beasts of Burnin'

  An outlaw animal-rights group targets a local bank branch in its war on animal testing

  November 29, 2007

• Eight Days

  July 29, 2004

• Soil to Soul

  July 19, 2007

• Toll Road Rage

  Hey, Porter! New firm cashes in on bad toll-road PR

  August 17, 2006

• Earth Daddy

  April 22, 2004

• Beefer Madness

  March 4, 2004

• You Want Christ With That?

  March 4, 2004

• Like,Gross!

  January 15, 2004

• Dead Heat!

  October 2, 2003

• Fatalizer

  May 15, 2003

• Expensive Tastes

  June 20, 2002

• Villa Park

  September 27, 2001

• Tustin

  September 27, 2001

• A Guide to our Advertisers

  August 9, 2001

• A Guide to our Advertisers

  February 1, 2001

• Guide to Our Advertisers

  March 23, 2000

• Eat Cheap

  March 16, 2000

• 'And Don't Call Us Straight!'

  December 23, 1999

• Hail, Caesar Salad

  August 13, 1998

• Cant Beat Their Meat

  November 23, 2000

• "Waiter, There's Too Much Salt In My Food!" "Dangerous" Denny's Sued Over High Sodium Levels

  ​A class-action suit filed in New Jersey by longtime Denny's patron Nick DeBenedetto and backed by the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) alleges that "Most meals at Denny's restaurants meals are dangerously high in salt, putting the chain's customers at greater risk of high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke."The CSPI claims that Denny's nutritional information should be available in its restaurants, not just online, and wants a judge to force Denny's to disclose

  July 30, 2009

• Stockpile the Snickers! America Might Run Out of Sugar!

  ​That was the dire prediction made this week by a group of major food manufacturers such as Kraft, Hershey, Mars and General Mills, who claim that import restrictions will soon leave us bereft of the sweet stuff. Apparently, domestic sugar supplies are falling dramatically (the Agriculture Department said this week that it expects US sugar supplies to drop 43 per cent in the next year), and, according to the manufacturers, unless the government starts allowing them to import more tariff-free s

  August 13, 2009