It's easy for us all to chalk up the inflation of prices for our most basic grocery items to the economic downturn. We see a carton of ice cream getting smaller and think, "Well, there's just another way for Dryers to gouge us." But, what if you found out that it might not be old Uncle Sam's fault, but the dairy farms hoping to bank on your economic-slump tunnel vision? more ›

Saucy Sisters at the Space Needle, PETA activists doing what they do (being offensive and not helping animals, really), people still being out of work and the Seattle Times' unfortunate and slightly sexist choice of a headline. Read up! more ›

PETA isn't a fan of the fishmongers using real fish as "props." They'd prefer rubber fish instead. Now, a reasonable person might point out that the fish they use don't have feelings to be bruised, they're dead. But in the realm of sea kittens, reason is scarce. more ›

PETA is concerned that fish aren't lovable enough for people to stop eating them, so they have cooked up the "sea kitten" campaign to reframe the argument for vegetarianism. Today a group of them were downtown raising consciousnesses--primarily that of males with camera phones, we're going to guess. We don't particularly care for fish sticks, but if they plan on messing with the tuna on our salade niçoise, we have a problem. more ›

Look, we've been through this before, though not on Capitol Hill. If we hadn't just posted our ode to organ meats, a sonnet to spleen, we probably wouldn't care. But over at Slog, Stranger managing editor (and foodie) Bethany Jean Clement has written a couple of posts about the furor surrounding foie gras. Specifically that John Sundstrom at Lark refuses to cave in to a nutball lunatic fringe called the Northwest Animal Rights Network, NARN for short, unhappy about his menu to the point of picketing the restaurant once a week. The subject of the outrage: Lark serves foie gras. No different than thousands of restaurants around the country, and in the mainstream of European culinary tradition that recognizes foie gras as a delicacy. more ›

As avid folk music connoisseurs, we’ve done our time in various Unitarian churches listening to obscure out-of-towners mouth off about Bush in the nicest possible (read: no cursing) sort of way. But for the past couple of years, a small venue on Capitol Hill has been integrating The Lord with great music and free coffee on a whole different level. more ›

There's a post up on Sound Politics that is a perfect example of the right-wing skill of making something up out of whole cloth and then pretending it's true. Supposedly a waitress in Seattle- Well, we'll let them tell it: more ›

Has the U.S. government ever screwed anyone as badly as it screwed the American Indian? Conventionally, we say "no." The native peoples of our beloved landmass are the reigning champions in that regard and will forever remain so. In there with all of the raw deals, outright lies, forced marches and whatnot, though, is the Makah Nation and the one bone they were able to wrest from the government: ''the right of taking fish and of whaling or sealing at usual and accustomed grounds and stations.'' In 1999 the Makah took a thirty ton gray whale after refraining from the tradition since 1920. Animal rights groups freaked, of course. more ›

The Seattle Times today reports that a farm near Enumclaw is under investigation for offering sex with animals. A Seattle man died July 2 in Enumclaw; the medical examiner said the death was accidental and the result of having sex with a horse. more ›