I’m still crippled — reduced to mousing and typing with left hand while standing with an ice pack strapped to my back (yeah, I know how sexy I look — you should see me in my cervical collar!). Sorry, but that means no Digest, and believe me, those 7,142-and-counting unread headlines are hurting me just […]
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“We’re never going to get anywhere if we insist on dividing this country into red fruits and blue fruits!”
PETA’s smartest PR move ever may be hiring Free Range Studios, the geniuses behind The Meatrix, to co-produce their latest campaign, "The Road to the Greenhouse."
The go-vegetarian message is a lot more palatable when served up as a mock debate featuring the presidential candidates of both parties reimagined as vegetables — among them Broccoli […]
PA pulls the plug on rBGH-free label ban
According to Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility’s Campaign for Safe Food and the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture released new rules this morning that essentially reverse the ban that was passed late last year on rBGH-free labels for milk. According to the campaign, "Dairy processors [in PA] are again free to use such […]
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