Subject: U.S. Department of Agriculture

• TXU's Winged Friends

  March 13, 2007

• ACS to Fork Over $2.6 Mil to Feds

  July 3, 2007

• The Elephant in the Room: The Dallas Zoo's Response to Concerned Citizens

  July 1, 2008

• Gustav Isn't Screwing Around, and Neither is the City of Dallas

  August 30, 2008

• Off the Killing Floor

  Dallas-based Supreme Beef wins a major round in its court battle with the USDA

  January 11, 2001

• Snakes in the grass

  July 13, 1995

• Sacred cow

  March 14, 1996

• Hot Dish

  April 4, 1996

• I ate what?

  September 10, 1998

• Oldie but goodie

  January 21, 1999

• Crying fowl

  March 4, 1999

• Barnyard stench

  March 25, 1999

• Tin tongue

  May 27, 1999

• Like Shootin' Hogs From a Helicopter!

  What we don't want, insists state Rep. Sid Miller, is "some Bubba flyin' around, sayin', 'Pass me the beer and the ammo!'" The District 59 rep's talking about his most recent proposal, H.B. No. 836, which calls for extending aerial hunting of feral hogs -- which currently is done only by Texas Wildlife Services -- to sport hunters. According to Mike Bodenchuk, USDA biologist and state director for Texas Wildlife Services, this means classifying the hogs as wildlife. (They're currently considered

  February 24, 2009

• How Dry It Is

  May 30, 2002

• Fly Cook

  Jeff Moschetti joins team ZaZa

  October 31, 2002

• Food For Thought 3.25.09

  "Because it sells, food companies are slapping it on anything. And consumers believe natural equals nutritious. Actually, it's a bit like Alice in Wonderland. It means what I want it to mean." (Julie Miller Jones, professor of food safety and nutrition at College of St. Catherine in Minnesota on the 'natural' food label, which has defied federal definition. The USDA uses "minimally processed" as their guidline, although some on the extreme call raisins processed--and thus unnatural--food. The F

  March 25, 2009

• Re: FYI, Read This ASAP. OMG!

  The following is a prime example of my curse here on Earth. A fleeting thought sprouts into a mild observation, only to bloom into a thesis that eventually flourishes into a blog item with sports branches. My apologies ... Got a text the other day, the salutation of which was LOL. It struck me that: 1. "laugh out loud" isn't that difficult to type. 2. it's official, our laziness has become lazy. When in the name of Jack LaLanne did our lame asses become DOA? Our latest exerci

  March 31, 2009

• Cadillac Ranch Offers a Bumpy Ride for Diners

  January 29, 2009

• Neighborhood Services

  Goods things here are worth waiting for

  January 22, 2009

• Pack a Trunk

  Despite efforts by animal welfare activists, the zoo decides to ship a problem elephant out of the country

  July 3, 2008

• Giving Up The Goat

  March 27, 2008

• Mayor, Mayor, on the Wall | Spell C-O-N-F-L-I-C-T| Got a Beef | Phat Girlz | Judge Roy Bean

  April 26, 2007

• Horse Opera

  January 19, 2006

• Dare Call It Prime

  The fare is disappointing at this upper-end steak house

  July 15, 2004

• How Now Mad Cow?

  For Texas cattle ranchers, "What's for dinner?" is a touchy question

  April 15, 2004

• Out Back

  Jasper's revels in the new age of backyard cuisine

  January 8, 2004

• EU Brew

  Old Coppertank space in Deep Ellum to get new life

  December 11, 2003

• Wharf Arf

  The Wharf @ Bayview Marina floats and sinks

  November 13, 2003

• Eddie's Red Adventure

  Eddie Merlot's is a cliché with elegance

  September 18, 2003

• Wabbit Season

  Animal rescuers try to find a Texas home for Miami's unwanted bunnies

  May 1, 2003

• Green Giant

  Nobel laureate Norman Borlaug is credited with saving the lives of 1 billion people. So why is a small cadre of activists bent on tarnishing his legacy?

  December 5, 2002

• Right and Wronged

  The taste of victory is bittersweet for a local meatpacker who challenged the USDA

  May 23, 2002

• Catch Those Tigers

  Years of little or no regulation have made Texas a place where big cats prowl--and sometimes kill

  February 28, 2002

• Food Foolery

  Shenanigans' sleight of hand is all thumbs

  February 21, 2002

• Sour Victory

  Supreme Beef wins in federal appeals court, but not soon enough to save its plant

  December 20, 2001

• Corraled

  The USDA backs off its tough new meat-inspection standards. That's a good thing, beef producers say.

  September 27, 2001

• Steak God Bob

  Thoroughly masculine

  April 12, 2001

• More, Please

  Quick, someone buy the county's juvenile authorities a copy of Oliver Twist

  February 22, 2001

• Slaughterhouse Jive

  Dallas-based Supreme Beef fought what it believes are unfair regulations, only to wind up on the USDA's killing floor

  December 21, 2000

• Animal-free Farm

  Ducks and chicks and geese better scurry from Samuell Farm

  November 16, 2000

• Seeds of Discontent

  Can growing protests stem the tide of genetically engineered crops?

  October 19, 2000

• Silent Scream

  Mute and immobile, Alice Joy Taylor couldn't cry out when fire ants attacked her in her nursing-home bed, but would anyone have heard her if she did?

  October 5, 2000

• Fat Is Good

  Is prime beef really prime?

  September 28, 2000

• Down on the farm

  The Farmer's Market is finally turning a profit, and the city has plans to make it even better. So why isn't everyone happy?

  July 27, 2000

• Food For Thought 5.1.09

  "It's killing our markets. Where they got the name, I just don't know." (Iowa hog farmer Francis Gilmore on the effect of swine flu on the value of his product. Since the outbreak and spread of this virus, hog prices have dropped from a $62 per 100 pounds average to $59 per 100 pounds, on average. In a typical spring, prices climb toward $70, according to the USDA. Maybe they should change it to Brussels Sprout Flu. As quoted by the Associated Press.)

  May 1, 2009

• Bye-Bye, Sugar High

  Reporter Megan Feldman Goes Without Refined Sugar. Her Life May Never Be The Same. When my doctor recently recommended I stop eating refined sugar as part of a broad plan to curb a bout of allergies and eczema, I didn't think it'd be such a big deal. "Sure," I said, thankful it wasn't something more integral to my diet, like wheat or dairy, "I don't eat much sugar, anyway." I had no idea what awaited me. The first stop was Einstein's. Obviously I wouldn't order a cinnamon roll or a muffin, bu

  June 18, 2009

• So What Exactly Are You Eating When You Order Fajitas In A Tex-Mex Restaurant?

  June 18, 2009

• Tequila and Sushi, Together At Last

  Patrick MichelsStrictly speaking, this is duck, not sushi. We'll explain...Hoping to prove his is a kinder, gentler brand of the Mexican ass-kicking liquor, Casa Noble Tequila's Jose Hermosillo invited local media to be his guests guinea pigs Thursday night for a pairing of his tequila with courses from chef Ve Le at The Fish in the West Village.The suggestion here was that good tequila is subtle and smooth enough to drink alongside all kinds of food--Hermosillo recently hosted a tequila-and-che

  July 17, 2009

• The New Faces of Hunger in North Texas

  ​When the U.S. Department of Agriculture released a report earlier this week that placed Texas second only to Mississippi when it comes to the swelling ranks of hungry residents, Jan Pruitt wasn't surprised. After all, the president and CEO of the North Texas Food Bank had just released her own data on the growing need of North Texas families as part of a major food drive heading into the holidays. "I wasn't surprised based on what this last year has looked like for us," she tells Unfair Park,

  November 18, 2009