YOU SELDOM SEE A HEALTHY-LOOKING VEGAN: Vegans ‘have twice as many sick days as their meat eating colleagues.’

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Are You Neglecting Your Meat?

I keep urging The Boy to do this.  It might be the NEXT thing they try although it appears the steroid treatments may have done the trick.  IT’S NOT JUST C. DIFF: Fecal transplant effective against ulcerative colitis, study says.

MICHAEL LEDEEN: Book Your Trip Now to the Pizza Olympics.

LIKE LEFTY DIET NOSTRUMS GENERALLY, IT’S CRAP: The “planetary health diet”, published this week in British medical journal The Lancet, is being touted as having the ability to save the planet but questions are already being raised about potential health risks.  It doesn’t matter what the problem is, the solution is always for us to give the government more money and power, while we eat less meat.

Whew.  Despite Climate Change, There Will Be Enough Food for 10 Billion in 2050

Will ‘Frenzied Hectoring’ by British Food Nannies Never End? New at Reason

I've loooooong suspected this:   Study: Half of people who think they have food allergies are wrong.

“In what could be a first for the nation, an Alabama Emergency Management Agency issued a public service warning this week telling people not to eat hundreds of chicken tenders spilled across a state highway.”

As my father often said PIE AIN’T SQUARE, CORNBREAD ARE SQUARE: Pie are round.

Is Organic Really Better? Healthy Food or Trendy Scam?

“AMERICANS, IT’S TIME TO EAT SOME VENISON. HASTA LA VISTA, BAMBI:” Deer Are a Menace and We Need to Kill a Lot More of Them.

Brickbat: Like a Candle in the Wind

GROTEEEEEEEEEE!  NEWS YOU CAN USE: Young people can be desensitized to peanut allergy through controlled, escalating exposure.

HOLD THE PRESSES: Alcohol, coffee use could be key to living longer.

Do NOT try this here:  British Food Nannies Want to Slap That Burger Right Out of Your Hand

AND TWICE AS DELICIOUS: Cheese Is Addictive as Cocaine, Science Says.

QUESTIONS THAT NOBODY IS ASKING: Is Veganism a “Cultural Appropriation?”

Forget it Jake.  It's Burgerland.  CHICAGOLAND: Alderman Edward Burke charged with attempted extortion of Burger King owners.

I FIND THIS VERY PERSUASIVE: Butter is Not Just Better, It’s Essential To Modern Human Health.

MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN: KFC is now selling a log that smells like fried chicken.

Organic food worse for the climate

Sausage, pepperoni, muchroom and mozarella for the game tonight.

Can the GOP Attract Young Voters? Try Beer, suggests J. Christian Adams

also: Beyond IPA: Doubles, Triples, Imperials, Old Ales and Danks.  In the warmer months I stick with easy-drinking ambers and pilsners, but when the weather turns cold sometimes I want something a little more… stout.

The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet.

MAKING SCHOOL LUNCHES GREAT AGAIN: Rolled-back school lunch rules put refined grains, low-fat chocolate milk back on menu. Though there’s nothing beneficial about low-fat milk.

THE SCIENCE IS SETTLED: There Really Are ‘Latte Liberals.’

No.  Just no.  On SO many levels:  L.A. City Councilman Wants to Force Movie Theaters to Sell Tofu Dogs

Maine’s Food Sovereignty Law Is a Hit: New at Reason

THIS. IS. CNN. CNN Lets ‘Food Babe’ Spout Pseudoscience on Lettuce Outbreak.

I BLAME BILL PARCELLS. The Trouble With Tuna: ‘A Lot of Millennials Don’t Even Own Can Openers.’

IN THE ATLANTIC, THE DEATH OF THE AMERICAN RESTAURANT  Spoiler alert:  It's Trumps fault.

‘Bringing home the bacon:’ Idioms referencing meat may become obsolete as veganism rises.  To be fair, this is a headline from the London Independent, which doesn’t exactly have the best track record in the world when it comes to future predictions. But as Jim Treacher tweets, “These people toughed it out during the Blitz. What the hell happened?”  Somebody should write a book on that topic — and Peter Hitchens already has.

Kansas City Health Officials Bleached Food Meant for the Homeless; Volunteers Came Back with More

Climate Change Causing Southeast Asia Rice Harvests to “Dwindle”… NOT!

NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL WINNING: Americans are pigging out on bacon as Trump’s trade war cuts chicken demand.

It's No Use Crying Over Spelt Milk

Minneapolis' Healthy Foods Mandate Screws Over Ethnic Grocers

Cheese Fight Ends With Court Declaring Producers Can't Copyright Taste: New at Reason

THINKPROGRESS GETS DRAGGED OVER DUMB ROMAINE PREMISE: ‘No Constitutional Right to Bear Salad.’

Rejoice, Angelenos! Your Bacon Dogs Will Soon Be Street Legal

and Monday Gunday is taking another break until 2019

THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: Confused by Nutrition Research? Sloppy Science May Be to Blame. It’s becoming clear that a lot of people who claimed to speak with the authority of science didn’t.

YOU CAN HAVE MY BURGER WHEN YOU PRY IT FROM MY COLD, DEAD GREASY FINGERS: Here’s PETA, Fast Company, and Bloomberg saying we must give up meat immediately to halt climate change.

‘Clean Meat,’ the Future of Vegetarianism

BOTTOM STORY OF ALL TIME: Here’s What Nutritionists Really Think About Bacon.

Oxford University Professor: Tax Meat to Reduce Climate Change and Obesity

NEWS OF SORTA KINDA CAN USE. SOMETIMES:  Is It Meat? Sometimes…

13 Milk Drinking Heroes Who Are Now Problematic "You won't BELIEVE Number 3!"

THE CRISES CHANGE BUT THE SOLUTIONS ARE ALWAYS THE SAME: No, giving up burgers won’t actually save the planet.

SHE GAVE MORE TO HUMANITY THAN MOST OF US EVER WILL: Dorcas Reilly, Creator of Green Bean Casserole, Dies at 92.

How much a pint of beer costs around the world.

John McAfee Is Right: This $700 Wine Is Worse Than $1.63 ‘Primal Sludge’

MAYBE MEDIA FASHIONS ARE DISCONNECTED FROM WHAT ACTUAL AMERICANS THINK AND DO? Why Is Chardonnay Still America’s Best-selling Wine?