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Chinese officials have agreed to lift the ban on U.S. pork imports they imposed last spring out of fear of swine flu.
Pennsylvania House leaders are steering a disproportionate share of grant money to their districts through a long-secret system of funding state lawmakers' pet projects, The Associated Press found.
Russian regulators are expanding bans on pork and other meat imports to more U.S. states, citing swine flu fears.
Indiana hog farmers are among those pork producers nationwide stepping up health protection measures and bracing for the impact of swine flu on an already struggling industry.
Public health authorities stress that you can't catch swine flu from eating pork. But they keep citing cooked pork. What about the raw meat?
Already grumbling about the false stigma of the name “swine flu,” pork farmers and agricultural officials have another message for Americans: Don’t infect our pigs.
Prices for U.S. hogs and shares of the nation's largest hog and pork producer all soared Tuesday as concern about the international swine flu outbreak seemed to abate, relieving investors' fears that pork consumption would slump.
Like the virus itself, the name "swine flu" is spreading quickly. For the pork purveyors and hog farmers who make up the nation's $15 billion pork industry, that's a disaster.
Fear of swine flu is a good reason to wash your hands, but not to take pork off the menu.
Police have arrested nine people and revoked the license of a livestock market owner in a case involving pork tainted with a chemical that made 70 people sick in southern China's biggest city, an official said Tuesday.
Taxpayer watchdog groups say something smells about $250,000 in federal funding earmarked for a factory farm in northwestern Missouri: Why is it coming from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development?
On Capitol Hill, a $1.7 million earmark for pig odor research in Iowa has become a big, fat joke among Republicans, a Grade A example of pork. But the people who live cheek by jowl with hog farms in the No. 1 pig-producing state aren't laughing.
Fourteen people in southern China have been poisoned after eating pig organs suspected of containing an animal-feed additive, state media said Thursday, the second such outbreak this month.
Millions of wild pigs weighing up to 300 pounds have been tearing up crops, trampling fences and eating just about anything in their path in Texas. But now they had better watch their hairy backs.
Suddenly, and for good reason, everyone seems to be talking about value in wine, just as I have been here in recent weeks. So, when a reader, William from Florida, wrote to ask if I could recommend a good inexpensive pinot noir, I was immediately excited by the challenge and started to look at possibilities I hadn’t tasted yet.
The Irish government pledged euro180 million ($235 million) and the European Union coughed up euro15 million ($20 million) more Thursday to help Ireland's pork industry following a dioxin contamination scare.
Ireland's surprise decision to recall all of its pork products because of contamination fears won support Monday from European health officials — but threatened to bankrupt the Irish pig industry as two-dozen countries hustled to get Irish pork off their menus.
A potentially deadly intestinal germ increasingly found in hospitals is also showing up in a more unsavory setting: grocery store meats.
It's one of Republican presidential candidate John McCain's most surefire applause lines, a vow to veto pork barrel spending like the road and bridge projects that lawmakers hold dear.
Earmarks are only pork when someone else is feasting on them. On your plate, they're veggies.
Earmarks are only pork when someone else is feasting on them. On your plate, they're veggies. They are the train that takes you to visit Aunt Betty, or the health clinic down the street, or the waste treatment plant that makes your water safer to drink. They're not all bridges to nowhere. They're also bicycle trails to somewhere.
State health officials said Monday they were investigating neurological illnesses among 11 workers at a pork processing plant, but that there was no evidence that the public was at risk.
President Bush, seeking to one-up Congress' Democratic majority in a showdown over the Iraq war, suggested Saturday that lawmakers should be ashamed that they added non-war items to an Iraq spending bill.
A top French judge ruled that an extreme-right group cannot serve pork soup to the needy, saying the charitable handouts aim to discriminate against Muslims and Jews who don't eat pork because of their faith.
A thief with a taste for pork put a damper on a fundraiser for scholarships by making off with nearly 350 pounds of porkburgers and hot dogs, police said.
One is hard-pressed to find any legislation coming out of Washington that excludes the phrase: and for other purposes. The phrase is legalese for "Pork." And it's been around awhile. William Polley describes "and for other purposes" this way:
Lawyer: NYer forced wife to violate Muslim beliefs - MontereyHerald.com :Lawyer: NYer forced wife to violate Muslim beliefs NEW YORK—A defense lawyer says a woman accused of slashing the neck of her sleeping husband was "emotionally abused" and forced to violate her Muslim beliefs. ..............
Critics blast $3M mining handoutA mining company owned by Goldman Sachs and two private equity funds is in line to get a $3 million earmark for work at a rare earth elements mine in Mountain Pass, Calif.
For some people the eating of meat is a decision that hinges on health reasons or religious issues or political issues such as animal protection. For me there is no question. I eat meat. I eat fowl and beef and pork and seafood, the same way I eat vegetables.
Even in time of war,Republican sponsored 'pork' still reigns - CNN.comUtah National Guardsmen returning from risky deployments receive a gesture of appreciation, a video scrapbook about their battalion and tour of duty. The video is produced by a business in Utah called StoryRock.
Now I know that I can't speak for all of the Democrats in America but personally I like pork and I particularly like mine barbecued.
House Considers Funding Green Vehicle ResearchWASHINGTON (AP) -- Targeting more spending toward the auto industry, the House on Wednesday considered expanding government-led research into how to make cars more fuel-efficient.
Taxed Enough Already? Tired of dishonest politicians? Tired of pork barrel spending? Why are you reading this instead of hitting the D.C. T.E.A. Party or one around your town?
I love my bacon and eggs but being an atheist, I have no doubts that as long as I don't eat the fat.
The good and bad of barbecueI have posted this article under 'education' due to it's educational content. In the South, three things are important: Family, politics, and barbecue.
The Defense Industry's Secret Weapon In July, to great fanfare, the Obama administration finally killed the F-22 fighter jet—an underperforming, overpriced Cold War relic that has never flown a combat mission over Iraq or Afghanistan.
Threat of H1N1 has pig farmers on guardI am a pork lover. My wife cooked some excellent barbecue pork roast for Sunday's dinner. However, the H1N1 (swine flu) virus may be redefining America's palate for pork meat.
Pork prevention: What's behind the NPPC bailout, or how the government keeps filling up Big Meat's troughOn Monday, the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) asked the USDA for $250 million in assistance to "help pork producers through the catastrophic market situation they are currently experiencing." It is indeed a catastrophe: In the Great Pork Glut of 2009, so many piggies …
Pork-barrel spending increases in 2009 The cost of earmarks increased this year despite lawmakers' claims they're working to reduce pork-barrel spending.
Fort Benning, home of the U.S. Army Infantry School and headquarters of the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, began expansion in 2001 to bring together the Armor School in Fort Knox , KY and Fort Benning's Infantry School into one consolidated installation.
"Job Creation" - Lies ExposedThis gives more understanding on just how the administration "spins" their failures on creating any REAL stimulus !!
Despite Obama's Objections, House Appropriators Seem Intent on EarmarksThe unwanted equipment in a military spending bill expected to come to a vote on the House floor Thursday or Friday has a price tag of at least $6.9 billion.
Pete Sessions's blimp flies into storm - John Bresnahan - POLITICO.comexcerpt: ""Rep.
Hamas accuses Israel of bid to over-sex Gaza youthsMake love not war? In a bizarre allegation, the extremist Hamas organization has accused Israel of sending chewing gum laced with aphrodisiacs into Gaza Strip to make Arab youths sexually corrupt.
The Bankrupt Party of Porkulus :: Michelle Malkin Let there be no doubt: Democrats are the party with two ideas: borrow and spend.
In health bill, billions for parks, pathsWASHINGTON - Sweeping healthcare legislation working its way through Congress is more than an effort to provide insurance to millions of Americans without coverage.
Craving Boar in Baghdad Pork, a dish enjoyed almost exclusively by Iraq's Christian minority, had been driven underground, mainly by the fear of the same Islamic enforcers who had fire-bombed liquor stores and shot dead barbers.
Congress Is About To Yank $369 Million Out of Nuclear Waste Clean-Up Funds To Pay For A Jet The Pentagon Doesn't WantLet me get this straight. The latest polls say three-quarters of the American people want a public option in health care, yet it's in question.
Stimulus benefits big - and small | Cincinnati.com | Cincinnati.ComYour porkulus dollars at work.
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