Our Decrepit Food Factories. Michael Pollan on what sustainability is really about. [Via Gristmill.]
posted on Dec 18, 2007 - View this thread

On ham, with a fascinating (well, unless you're kosher) history of colonial curing methods.
posted on Oct 19, 2007 - View this thread

So You Think The V-22 Is Ridiculous? [previously] Let me present you its dumb brother, the DuPont Aerospace DP-2. (No relation to the chemical conglomerate).
posted on Oct 14, 2007 - View this thread

Salad? mmhmm. If you're not one for the ever-generic chicken caesar, well, there are alternatives. (in keeping with recent baconposts, of course.)
posted on Aug 16, 2007 - View this thread

Government vs. Blogger A woman who has a breastfeeding blog tries to raise some money for the Mothers' Milk Bank of Ohio by selling a t-shirt containing a slogan that the National Pork Board finds to be an infringement of their trademark . Chaos ensues.
posted on Feb 4, 2007 - View this thread

2000 pigs sacrifice to the deity General Chao of Wudeh temple.
posted on Jan 24, 2007 - View this thread

The Online Pork Rind Resource. Once a genuine online store, porkrind.com is now your premier source for pork rind in sculpture, music, poetry... and porn (NSFW). Don't miss the reviews! And the tour of Texas! And the insanity!
posted on Jan 24, 2007 - View this thread

Pork's Dirty Secret is a Rolling Stone expose on Smithfield Foods, the world's top pork processor. via
posted on Jan 20, 2007 - View this thread

The vision: a federally funded 5-acre enclosed rainforest, supposedly the world's largest, will make Coralville, Iowa into a world-class destination city and ignite the imagination of its heretofore benighted citizens. The problem: a federally funded rainforest. In Iowa. Read some entertaining background and analysis on the inspiring project here and here.
posted on Jan 13, 2006 - View this thread

Merry Christmas, Taxpayers. The latest chapter in the "Alaskan bridges to nowhere" saga.
posted on Dec 23, 2005 - View this thread

Louisiana Leads in Army Corps Spending, but Millions Had Nothing to Do With Floods
In Katrina's wake, Louisiana politicians and other critics have complained about paltry funding for the Army Corps in general and Louisiana projects in particular. But over the five years of President Bush's administration, Louisiana has received far more money for Corps civil works projects than any other state, about $1.9 billion; California was a distant second with less than $1.4 billion, even though its population is more than seven times as large.

[H]undreds of millions of dollars have gone to unrelated water projects demanded by the state's congressional delegation and approved by the Corps, often after economic analyses that turned out to be inaccurate. Despite a series of independent investigations criticizing Army Corps construction projects as wasteful pork-barrel spending, Louisiana's representatives have kept bringing home the bacon.
posted on Sep 8, 2005 - View this thread

BaconWhores: Because the only thing better than bacon is someone to cook it for you.
posted on Feb 21, 2005 - View this thread

Pork Farmers in Hog Heaven! Atkins and skyrocketing beef prices result in pork producers "experiencing demand far in excess of anything [they]'ve seen historically." Pork prices are very high on the spot and futures market but still a value relative to meat. Perhaps this will increase the demand for tasty Berkshire hog pork, the kind that pre-dates the breeding which produced the "other white meat."
posted on Oct 19, 2004 - View this thread

The PETA sinks to a new low. This time drawing parallels between the gruesome Pickton murders and the the slaughter of pigs for meat. Many of the human remains of Pickton's victims are still being found at the Pickton pig farm. They were drugged and dragged across the room... Their struggles and cries went unanswered... They were slaughtered and their heads sawed off... Their body parts were refrigerated... Their bones were discarded.
posted on Apr 7, 2004 - View this thread

Pork 4 Kids! The National Pork Board brings all you children a fun trip through the world of pork! Yay!
posted on Jan 5, 2004 - View this thread

mmm! Mr Brain's faggots!. Ever tried one of Mr Brain's faggots? You can read a review of "Mr. Brain and his faggots" or check out the Doodys the official faggot family or even become a faggot fanatic yourself!
posted on Jul 18, 2003 - View this thread

The life of a pig, from conception to Christmas ham. A frank and charming slide show of the life of pig Onni, backed by horns, narrated in melodius Finnish, and subtitled in English. Be warned: it uses Flash, and ends in death.
posted on Feb 25, 2003 - View this thread

Pork chop shoes results in a lawsuit in Australia. A man who slipped on a grease trail left by pork chop shoes in a pub is awarded £23,000. I guess Nike better think twice before they release their filet mignon basketball shoes. What would be their marketing campaign?
posted on Jun 30, 2002 - View this thread

"we're good at growing hogs, and we ought to be selling our hogs all across the world." Bush stumps at Pork Party about nixing the Estate Tax.
posted on Jun 8, 2002 - View this thread

The 14th annual World Pork Expo starts today in Des Moines. 50,000 visitors and people from 50 countries are expected to be in attendance this weekend. Also in attendance will be George W. Bush.
posted on Jun 6, 2002 - View this thread

Pigs and People Who Wear Shoes of Meat outraged over lawsuit. Ross Lucock's porkchop flip-flops may cost him $750,000 in damages.
posted on Jan 16, 2002 - View this thread

"The Finns don't even know what prosciutto is." Pork barreling in the European Union courtesy of Berlusconi, Chirac and Schroeder.
posted on Dec 17, 2001 - View this thread

I always knew that the proper supply chain management ebusiness plan could free me from the hell that is cleaning those pesky pig intestines.
posted on Oct 14, 2001 - View this thread

Meat from genetically modified pigs was stolen from a lab, turned into sausages and eaten by atleast nine people. It may be the first time people in the US have eaten GM meat.

Apparently they "tasted real good".
posted on Jul 25, 2001 - View this thread

Not Salieri but Schnitzel the latest theory about what did in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is that he might have contracted trichinosis from some spoiled pork cutlets. "Why Antonio, I'd just die for some wiener schniztel right now," Wolfgang exclaimed. "Yes, you would," sneered Salieri.......
posted on Jun 11, 2001 - View this thread

Like the rest of Europe, Germany is going through a histrionic BSE scare. So Germans switched to sausage and pork. And then they were told pork contains anabolic steroids. So they switched to venison. And then they were told it might have BSE too. So the Germans, who hate veggies, are starting to "starve." And raid zoos for meat. Hey, where'd all this paté come from?
posted on Jan 27, 2001 - View this thread