As the terror subsides

reality bites.

Spreading

like pig shit.

Fear of swine

The word, not the thing.

Time for the Pork Board

to commission a new study. Factory farms are trouble with a capital T. 

So much for industrial hogs

being safer than "free-range" swine. 

Seems to me

he lost. Why won't he go away? 

Nobody

could have predicted.

Citigroup

goes to Washington.

Missed

this, although a very cross editor would have helped here, too. 

Even Orwell would wonder

Filthy conditions backed by "Californians for Safe Food." 

Using everything

but the squeal. 

I swore off the internets today

but jeebus, does this make you want the old guy in the supermarket to succeed him? 

Olympic image of the day

From "Nibbles" in the Guardian: 

"On Monday, McClatchy Newspapers reported that in Changping, guards carefully monitor the perimeter of Lin Yuan's farm, where carrots, peppers and tomatoes will ripen in what Nibbles imagines to be a sort of vegetable POW camp. If you think that's ridiculous, spare a thought for the 10 secret pig farms set up in the countryside to provide meat for the Olympic Village. Destined for the dinner plate, the animals get a strict two hours of exercise a day, eat organic feed and are monitored around the clock. Guards go so far as to mentally train them, too: regular cries of "Trough it, you filthy beasts!" and "Eat for China!" ring out over the farmyard. (We freely admit our imagination ran away with us at this point.)" 

What you will never see

in Martha Stewart or on the clone blogs: real food.   

I hear it's taking Salon

a whole week to say this. 

Forget the MRSA in the pork

Foie gras will always be the target. Luckily, there is one smart purveyor.