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March 2, 2012
Feds Dismiss Medical Marijuana Lawsuits Without Hearings "Because They Know They're Wrong"
Medical Marijuana Fight May End Up At Supreme Court ... By The Time We Are All Really Old.San Francisco attorney Matthew Kumin was defeated this week, when his lawsuit that challenged the feds' recent crackdown on state-legal medical marijuana dispensaries was dismissed by a federal judge in Sacr ... More >>
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February 1, 2012
Free-Market Biological Warfare
Medical Marijuana Fight May End Up At Supreme Court ... By The Time We Are All Really Old.San Francisco attorney Matthew Kumin was defeated this week, when his lawsuit that challenged the feds' recent crackdown on state-legal medical marijuana dispensaries was dismissed by a federal judge in Sacr ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2012
Trent Arsenault, Bay Area Man Flooded with Sperm Requests, in New York for Media Blitz
Is network TV ready for this?The national news just can't get enough of the Bay Area's one man sperm-donor, Trent Arsenault. The 36-year-old, who claims to have fathered 14 offspring with his super-potent sperm he ejaculates during porn movies (yes, they are available online), told SF Weekly that ... More >>
Blogs
January 3, 2012
Five Things to Do in 2012 That Aren't
Radical Weight-Loss Surgery
An acquaintance traveled to Los Angeles recently and saw the ubiquitous 1-800-GET-THIN billboards. "It was like, 'Welcome to LA ... You're fat!'" said Jennifer Yendes. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took note of the notorious billboards in early December. Regulators officially told marketing ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2011
One in Four Packages of Meat Is Contaminated With Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs
Mark Bittman, who has segued from being the New York Times' alpha recipe writer to being its alpha food-politics writer, ran a blistering opinion piece this week on the FDA's failure to check antibiotic use on farms. So many farmers have been feeding antibiotics to their livestock that the FDA be ... More >>
Blogs
December 26, 2011
Sperm Donor Smack-Down: Trent Arsenault vs. the Gay-Hating Bill Johnson
You, too, can have a Trent Arsenault baby.The SF Weekly newsroom boasts the strange distinction of sitting above a fertility clinic. That means the morning elevator ride is often shared with anxious females gripping the hand of their nervous sperm donor/partner. It also means that in dull mo ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2011
FDA Orders Cease-and-Desist on Silicon Valley Man's Sperm
The FDA is a real boner killer There's plenty of opportunities to help the 99 percent. For Trent Arsenault, a Fremont resident and Silicon Valley security expert, he prefers giving away his sperm -- for free -- to help those in need. Arsenault, 36, has been donating his sperm online to couples si ... More >>
Blogs
October 13, 2011
Contaminated Cantaloupes Killed 23 People. Why Not More?
llubomir / ShutterstockAccording to an article yesterday in the Huffington Post, the Jensen Farms listeria outbreak has now killed 23 people and sent 116 to the hospital, making it America's deadliest case of foodborne illness in several decades. While the FDA investigates the farm to find out e ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2011
Sugar Sues Corn Syrup for False Advertising. No Joke.
Sugar: going on the offensive. Yesterday the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles began hearing arguments over an odd lawsuit filed by a group of sugar producers against a group of producers and marketers of high-fructose corn syrup. The charge? False advertising. Big Sugar is mad that Big HFCS -- u ... More >>
Blogs
September 12, 2011
Congress Attempting to Stop the Frankenfish
This is not AquaBounty's GM salmon. It is also not PhotoShopped. Good god.For years, SFoodie has been hearing about the development of AquaBounty's AquAdvantage giant farmed salmon, which are bred to produce growth hormone continuously throughout their lives so they reach market weight much faste ... More >>
Blogs
August 9, 2011
The FDA Wants Your Gluten-Free Cookies to Actually Be Gluten-Free
Mariposa Baking's cinnamon rolls: actually gluten-free, actually good.There are three kinds of people who buy gluten-free products: a) People whose doctor has told them celiac disease is what's making them miserable; b) people whose naturopath has told them they're probably gluten-intolerant; c) ... More >>
Blogs
May 16, 2011
How Much Should We Believe in Activia? How Much Do You Throw in the Tip Jar?
Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Food as Medicine. The New York Times ran a great article yesterday about the increase in foods marketing themselves for their health benefits. The FDA, finding some of these claims ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2011
Food Costs, Diet Drinking, and Buying the Right Fish
Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media.1. Pain at the Cart. At the New York Times, Kim Severson surveys the rising costs of food -- beef up 12%, tomatoes up 11%, milk up 7% -- and then puts it in in perspective: Globally, ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2011
E-Cigarettes: How Long Before San Francisco Bans Them?
e-addictions can be regulated, too It wasn't enough to restrict smokers so much so that about the only place they can light up now is in the path of oncoming traffic. San Francisco is now looking at tossing out electronic smokers from their local bar.The FDA ruled today that e-cigarettes are in f ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2011
Clean Cheese, Ginger Ale, and the Mighty Subway
Madame Fromage/FlickrSally Jackson's amazing cheese, now lost to the world after an FDA crackdown.A new daily column: Notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other miscellanea dredged up from the food media.1. Cheese makers under attack? San Francisco diners haven't felt the i ... More >>
Blogs
February 11, 2011
Valentine's Day Gift for Her: Female Condom (VIDEO)
Female condom: putting the "party" back into party bus. Health Department Tries Hand At Public Service Announcement Porn. Best. Video. Ever.The wait has been long. It has been curious. And now the Female Condom 2 will finally launch in San Francisco on Valentine's Day. The motto: "The FC2, For Wh ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2011
New Questions Raised About State's Imported Lethal Injection Drugs
Newly released documents raise questions about the quality of drugs imported from abroad by state corrections officials to carry out lethal injections, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.The documents, obtained by the ACLU through Freedom of Information Act (FO ... More >>
Blogs
January 21, 2011
Eat a Goddamn Carrot, Go to Fresno, Save a Fish
SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • The Onion has this amazing video up of what the FDA could be like if they were honest. You just buy a bag of fucking carrots and you eat them the way you'd normally eat a package of hot dogs, okay? Watch: • ... More >>
News
January 19, 2011
Government lets fraudulent drug companies deal with Medicare
SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. • The Onion has this amazing video up of what the FDA could be like if they were honest. You just buy a bag of fucking carrots and you eat them the way you'd normally eat a package of hot dogs, okay? Watch: • ... More >>
Blogs
December 10, 2010
State Claims Chiropractor Is Crooked
Ben Altadonna, seen here with Ed McMahon amazingly enough, is not the state's favorite chiropractorBent out of shape by the alleged actions of chiropractor Benjamin Altadonna, the state of California has filed suit, claiming the health practitioner is deeply crooked. In a case filed in Alameda Co ... More >>
Blogs
December 3, 2010
More Loving in the Inner Sunset, Baking for Critters, Brunch on the Farm
SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. Exciting news, there's a new Loving Hut coming to the Inner Sunset! Loving Hut is a Supreme Master Ching Hai joint, meaning it may or may not be run by a cult. I mainly don't care as I have a steady resolve when ... More >>
Dining
October 13, 2010
Fresh Eats: Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news
SFoodie's roundup of tips, news, and rants from the week in animal-free eats. Exciting news, there's a new Loving Hut coming to the Inner Sunset! Loving Hut is a Supreme Master Ching Hai joint, meaning it may or may not be run by a cult. I mainly don't care as I have a steady resolve when ... More >>
Blogs
October 5, 2010
On Finding Real Apple Cider
Jonathan KauffmanRainbow Orchards' cider: $4/quart at the Inner Sunset Farmers Market. Fall in Indiana began with the start of school. Then came the heavy jackets, the leaf mounds and rake-blistered hands, and the weekly trips to the orchard to fill up our jugs with fresh-pressed cider. For two o ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2010
High-Fructose Corn Syrup Seeks New Name: 'Corn Sugar'
Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Ever since Fast Food Nation went bathroom-reading bestseller, high-fructose corn syrup has left a sour taste with shoppers at or above the level of Safeway basic. Today, reports the Associated Press, the Corn Refiners Association is seeking to change that, not ... More >>
Blogs
September 10, 2010
Gay Blood Not Welcome in San Bruno Relief Effort
All blood is not created equally, according to the federal governmentBlood Centers of the Pacific is reporting that community response to the San Bruno explosion and fire has been outstanding. So outstanding, in fact, that donors are urged to not give blood. They have enough. Come in and give nex ... More >>
Blogs
August 2, 2010
New Female Condom Campaign Targets Gay Men in San Francisco. You Read That Right.
The female condom is awkward. Cheaper female condoms! Come get yer cheaper female condoms!Yeah. That's really what's up. A newer, cheaper female condom, FC2, as in, Female Condom 2 (wildly creative, right?) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2009. It costs about 65 per ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2010
Interpol, World Anti-Doping Agency Launch Investigations of Lance Armstrong
No, no, not that way. This way...At this point, who isn't investigating Lance Armstrong? The World Anti-Doping Agency has joined the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Attorney's office to look into allegations that directors of Armstrong's former U.S. Postal Service Cycling Team conducted ... More >>
Blogs
April 21, 2010
Is the Government Caving to Pressure Over Regulating Sodium?
A public interest group first asked FDA to intervene in 1978.Our favorite morsel from the blogs. Salt politics: At Food Politics, Marion Nestle considers the on-one-minute, gone-the-next rumor that FDA has plans to regulate the salt content in processed foods. She lays out the simple timelin ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2010
Quaker Oat Man a Liar, Lawsuit Claims
Who can we trust if not this wholesome corporate symbol? With low-hanging fruit such as Froot Loops and Crunchberries already targets of litigation accusing cereal makers of making exaggerated health claims, a Bay Area lawsuit now takes on Quaker granola bars, an oily, sugary concoction touted as ... More >>
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January 20, 2010
The Monster in the Covers
Who can we trust if not this wholesome corporate symbol? With low-hanging fruit such as Froot Loops and Crunchberries already targets of litigation accusing cereal makers of making exaggerated health claims, a Bay Area lawsuit now takes on Quaker granola bars, an oily, sugary concoction touted as ... More >>
Blogs
October 15, 2009
Just in Time for Halloween: The World's Deadliest Foods
Think last night's burrito made you sick? Even the worst food poisoning from the grubbiest taqueria is nothing compared to what might happen if you chow down on these really deadly foods.8. FuguEating fugu, or Japanese pufferfish, is always a life-or-death gamble. Considered a delicacy, the rathe ... More >>
Blogs
October 14, 2009
In Praise of Imposter Lobster in South City
T. PalmerNot lobster, but not half bad either.Cruising the El and hankering for something cheap 'n fried, SFoodie made a guilty pleasure pit stop at Long John Silver's (1111 El Camino Real at Del Paso, South San Francisco) for some fish and chips and hush puppies. Inside the spot (which doubles a ... More >>
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July 15, 2009
A Squishable Feast
T. PalmerNot lobster, but not half bad either.Cruising the El and hankering for something cheap 'n fried, SFoodie made a guilty pleasure pit stop at Long John Silver's (1111 El Camino Real at Del Paso, South San Francisco) for some fish and chips and hush puppies. Inside the spot (which doubles a ... More >>
News
April 15, 2009
Stem-cell stalemate: The push for cures may produce only disappointment - or worse
T. PalmerNot lobster, but not half bad either.Cruising the El and hankering for something cheap 'n fried, SFoodie made a guilty pleasure pit stop at Long John Silver's (1111 El Camino Real at Del Paso, South San Francisco) for some fish and chips and hush puppies. Inside the spot (which doubles a ... More >>
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February 11, 2009
Like Blogs, Only Paperier
T. PalmerNot lobster, but not half bad either.Cruising the El and hankering for something cheap 'n fried, SFoodie made a guilty pleasure pit stop at Long John Silver's (1111 El Camino Real at Del Paso, South San Francisco) for some fish and chips and hush puppies. Inside the spot (which doubles a ... More >>
News
February 11, 2009
Don't mix raw oysters and antacids!
T. PalmerNot lobster, but not half bad either.Cruising the El and hankering for something cheap 'n fried, SFoodie made a guilty pleasure pit stop at Long John Silver's (1111 El Camino Real at Del Paso, South San Francisco) for some fish and chips and hush puppies. Inside the spot (which doubles a ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2009
New Sandwiches at Boccalone
Just like the toasted panini I used to eat in Rome--except the Acme-baked bread is better.
News
June 14, 2006
Letters to the Editor
Week of Wednesday, June 14, 2006
News
September 11, 2002
The New Defenders
An explosion of federal funding has Bay Area researchers at the forefront of America's counter-terrorism program. Will the money make us safer - or just make science a military secret?
News
November 21, 2001
The New Economy
The road to Punta Abreojos is paved with hollow intentions
Calendar
November 13, 1996
Mulch
The road to Punta Abreojos is paved with hollow intentions
News
July 3, 1996
A Wasting of Time
An existing drug offers hope for AIDS wasting syndrome -- if you can get it
News
March 20, 1996
Dog Bites
An existing drug offers hope for AIDS wasting syndrome -- if you can get it
News
December 6, 1995
Letters
An existing drug offers hope for AIDS wasting syndrome -- if you can get it
News
November 29, 1995
Drug Story (Part I)
Discovered by brain researchers in the early '60s and resurrected by bodybuilders in the late '80s, the semi-illicit compound GHB is now marketed on the club and smart-drug circuits as a sexy wonder drug. But beware GHB's knockout punch.
News
November 29, 1995
Drug Story (Part II)
Discovered by brain researchers in the early '60s and resurrected by bodybuilders in the late '80s, the semi-illict compound GHB is now marketed on the club and smart-drug circuits as a sexy wonder drug. But beware GHB's knockout punch.
News
September 6, 1995
Topic of Cancer
South San Francisco biotech firm Genentech just says no to women battling breast cancer
News
August 16, 1995
As They Lay Dying
Breast cancer activists rage at Genentech for withholding an experimental drug
News
July 19, 1995
Hepatitis A-B-Cs: (source: American Liver Foundation)
Breast cancer activists rage at Genentech for withholding an experimental drug
News
April 26, 1995
Beauty Knows No Pain
Building a Better Body at the 28th Annual Session of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
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