Random news round-up
4 Sep‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin Killed by Stingray
Rest in Peace, Steve. May your heaven be full of muddy swamps and crocodiles for you to play with. And may your family somehow find the strength to go on.
“Grass Fed” label on beef soon to be meaningless?
If the government has its way, the grass-fed label could be used to sell beef that didn’t roam the range and ate more than just grass.
The Agriculture Department has proposed a standard for grass-fed meat that doesn’t say animals need pasture and that broadly defines grass to include things like leftovers from harvested crops.
Folk Hero of the American West?
1 SepThe Mayor Who Challenged the President
Excerpt:
“Blind faith in bad leaders is not patriotism,” he told the excited crowd, a slender, gray haired man in a black suit, standing alone, and entirely unprotected, at a microphone on a podium on the steps of City Hall. In a booming bass, denouncing the hundreds of angry callers who had phoned his office to urge him not to embarrass the city by protesting the presence of the nation’s leader, he continued. “A patriot does not tell people who are intensely concerned about their country to sit down and be quiet in the name of politeness.”
This man has a clue. Click through to The Nation to read the rest.
