Lady Gaga’s Meat Bikini, Honey Smuggling Ring Stung

Published on Friday, September 10, 2010, by Lessley Anderson and Roxanne Webber / Edit Post

Just in Time for Halloween: Frankenfish: The FDA will decide if it will approve genetically altered salmon in a few weeks. The fish are said to grow twice as fast as a regular farmed Atlantic salmon. Biologists are worried about what could happen if the altered fish get into the wild and breed with non-altered fish. via ABC News

PETA Has No Sense of Irony: The animal-rights group PETA's spokespeople got uppity over Lady Gaga's Vogue Hommes Japan cover photo in which she is clad in a meat bikini. via NY Daily News

Honey Smuggling Sting Stings: In what is being reported as the biggest food smuggling case in U.S. history, the U.S. is indicting German and Chinese executives for "conspiring to illegally import $40m (£26m) worth of honey from China." via BBC News

More Confusing Diet Study Results: A new study on high-protein, low-carb diets published in the Annals of Internal Medicine concludes that if you are eating a high-protein, low-carb diet, you're less likely to die if the proteins come from plants rather than animals. But the real question is: Who cares about low-carb diets anymore? via CNN

Thread of the Week: A Chowhound posts "Broken jaw / no chewing in SF," seeking recommendations for eating mashed potatoes and creamed spinach with a "gentleman friend" and for picking up takeout soup to purée with a hand blender at the hotel.

Deaths, Firings, Recalls, and Other Endings:

• Four brands of milk are recalled in New York because they weren't completely pasteurized.

• Cargill Meat Solutions recalled hamburger meat after three people were sickened by a strain of E. coli (O26).

Debuts, Openings, and Other Beginnings:

• Fancy, famous NY restaurant Eleven Madison Park revamps its menu to be just ingredients printed on a page.

• Whole Foods and school lunch activist Ann Cooper launched a project to put salad bars in schools. The schools can apply for grants to get the salad bar kids between now and November 1.

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  • At least the genetically altered Salmon made the news so people can actually see whats going on with our food supply. I've been trying to educate my friends plus anyone else that will listen, how so much of the foods we buy every day are not as they used to be. That many of those foods are now GMO, or genetically altered/modified. The Canadian and US goverments seem to want to keep GMO...+READ

    At least the genetically altered Salmon made the news so people can actually see whats going on with our food supply. I've been trying to educate my friends plus anyone else that will listen, how so much of the foods we buy every day are not as they used to be. That many of those foods are now GMO, or genetically altered/modified. The Canadian and US goverments seem to want to keep GMO information from the consumer. If manditory labeling is brought up, its quickly turned down. My biggest complaint is why do the goverments not want us, the consumer who eat these foods everyday, to know? Really, how many out there know that most cooking/salad oils, dressings, and mayo's are now genetically altered? I choose not to purchase or eat any food that I find is GMO. I would never purchase the Salmon that is featured in this news report. If I couldn't get my salmon directly from the boats or my local fishmonger, I would go without. Working in a major grocery chain for almost 30 years, I know not to buy "fresh" fish of any kind from a grocery chain. Best advice I can give is get your fish fresh from the boats, if thats not an option, buy it from your local fish market, NOT your neighbourhood grocery store. If anyone is interested in learning more about GMO foods, heres a few links you might want to peruse.

    http://www.disabled-world.com/fitness/gm-foods.php

    http://www.rense.com/politics6/gms.htm

    http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/gmf-agm/index-eng.php

    http://www.purezing.com/living/toxins/living_toxins_foodcornproducts.html

    http://todayyesterdayandtomorrow.wordpress.com/category/eating-can-kill-you/shopping-list/

    As for lady Gaga and her meat dress... Why is it that so many people are tsk tsking the female sports reporter from Mexico who wore tight clothing at game she was covering? The reported was harrassed by the players and its being said by most people, that she deserved it because of her tight clothing.

    Yet Lady Gaga can walk about LAX & Spain in her barely there bra & bikini panties, and no one even blink an eye. Double standard much?-COLLAPSE