I realize there is a cultural question about eating horsemeat in American minds to begin with. Still, the critical question – once again – comes down to our government doing little or nothing to guarantee either a safe lifespan for “cattle” or regulating and testing what becomes food for domestic and foreign consumers. For decades, [...]

Compounding centers like this get their exemption from federal oversight on the grounds of serving local and regional communities. The standard “states right” exemption from responsibility that conservative politicians roll in – like hogs in their own shite. Meanwhile, these thugs have been selling their crap all over the United States and no one in [...]

I guess we’re supposed to feel sorry for these creeps, right? Stalwarts of an industry that cut wages in half over the past couple of decades – mostly by replacing citizens with undocumentados. Meatpacking is an industry that relies on lobbyists to purchase politicians and bureaucrats to validate smarmy and innocuous names created by marketing [...]

RTFA for more details – leading to the conclusions you’d expect. Congress represents moneyed interests, corporate producers, before they ever consider the American families that voted them into office. Corruption is endemic. Nothing has been done or is being done to press the regulatory agencies into doing their job – or mandating cooperation from the [...]

A coalition of groups which includes two students’ parents have brought a lawsuit against the Clovis Unified School District in California, claiming that their abstinence-only sex education program violates state law.  Students in a Fresno County, California, school district are taught that HIV can be spread through kissing, and the right way to prevent STDs is by going [...]

Seems pretty clear FDA bureaucrats behaved like the worst model favored by corporate barons. I realize there always is a certain amount of interchangeability between the breeds; but, one would hope a measure of ethics – both by choice and requirement – might have ruled behavior in a federal agency. Perhaps not. A wide-ranging surveillance [...]

Right wing religious nutballs are cut from the same cloth whether Catholic or Baptist, Islamist or Animist. Their brains refuse to admit to knowledge having moved forward – offering a better life for human beings than some rote leftover from the 11th Century or the dawn of the discovery of fire. Responding to simmering controversy [...]

It’s not about trusting a woman with either…it’s about the fact that a woman has a right to choose regardless of whether she is trustworthy or not.

Women who have abortions do so because they value life and because they take very seriously the myriad of responsibilities that come not just with birth, but with nurturing a human being. ~ Charlotte Taft, a veteran feminist who has waged numerous wars with anti-abortion zealots.

Doctors across the nation are now free to refuse medical care to women on the basis of their own personal beliefs.  Case in point: An Oklahoma emergency room doctor refused to provide emergency contraception to a 24-year-old female rape victim because the medication violated the health provider’s personal beliefs, a local CBS News affiliate reports. [...]