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Last year, Wisconsin led the nation in mink farming, producing 833,430 pelts. Texas was the undisputed king of pansies, growing 1.8 million flats of the flowers. And no state harvested more hops than Washington, with 24,336 acres. This year? Who knows? The government has stopped counting. Forced to cut its budget, the Agriculture Department has decided to eliminate dozens of reports, including the annual goat census (current population: three million), and the number of catfish on the nation’s fish farms (177 million, not counting the small fry). The statistics service said it was forced to reduce the frequency of some...

People should consider eating less meat as a way of combating global warming, says the UN's top climate scientist. Rajendra Pachauri, who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will make the call at a speech in London on Monday evening.

'Vegansexuals' shun sex with meaties By staff writers July 31, 2007 10:45am A GROUP of vegans in New Zealand - vegansexuals - are shunning sex with meat-eaters because their bodies are made up of animal carcases. "When you are vegan or vegetarian, you are very aware that when people eat a meaty diet, they are kind of a graveyard for animals," vegan Nichola Kriek said in the Christchurch daily The Press. Another said: "I would not want to be intimate with someone whose body is literally made up from the bodies of others who have died for their sustenance." Annie...

River's abundance of corpses ruins Iraqis' appetite for carp REUTERS July 11, 2007 BAGHDAD – River fish are off the menu in Baghdad. Dead bodies frequently pulled from the River Tigris have dulled the Iraqi capital's appetite for masqouf, its popular dish of grilled carp, after it was reported that clerics had warned that the fish dined on rotting corpses. “They spread rumors about the fish, that they eat the bodies of drowned people, but this is just a rumor,” said fisherman Hussein Ahmed, 62, after setting his nets within sight of the heavily fortified Green Zone compound on the...

Troops Home Fast Wednesday, June 28th, 2006 Dear Friends, GSFP and Code Pink are sponsoring a hunger strike for peace which begins July 04, called Troops Home Fast Some of us like Dick Gregory and Diane Wilson will be fasting until the troops come home from Iraq, and some, like me, will be fasting for a specified time. My fast will begin on 7/04 and end on the last day of Camp Casey: 09/02. We are announcing the fast from Washington, DC on 07/04 and having our last supper on 07/03 in Lafayette Park. If you can join us in...

March 10, 2006 -- DUBYA'S LUCKY LOSS ON PORTS GEORGE Bush's enemies are excited. The Dubai ports deal is dead. The president had said he would veto any attempt by Congress to block it - but a House committee vote Wednesday with the insanely lopsided margin of 62-2 hollowed out his threat and left its husk to rot. (The Dubai company sure doesn't see much hope: It announced yesterday that it will sell off its U.S. port work.) Surely, his enemies say, this is curtains for Bush. Republicans are fleeing from him, he can't keep his troops in line -...

There's no physical evidence that the family who gave the Donner Party its name had anything to do with the cannibalism the ill-fated pioneers have been associated with for a century and a half, two scientists said Thursday. Cannibalism has been documented at the Sierra Nevada site where most of the Donner Party's 81 members were trapped during the brutal winter of 1846-47, but 21 people, including all the members of the George and Jacob Donner families, were stuck six miles away because a broken axle had delayed them. No cooked human bones were found among the thousands of fragments...

Professor Wants To See Seaweed On Dinner Plates UPDATED: 10:30 am EDT July 25, 2005 KETCHIKAN, Alaska -- Your idea of seafood probably isn't seaweed. But Dolly Garza would like to change that. She is a professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and is the author of a new book which includes seaweed recipes. Garza says seaweed is low in fat, has lots of vitamins and minerals, and harvesting it is a great family activity. Garza is especially fond of dry seaweed. She says the easy way to eat seaweed is to roast it and munch on it like...

<p>She and her attorney are expected to appear in federal court in Manhattan around noon today.</p> <p>Stewart, 61, is under investigation for selling 4,000 shares of biotechnology company ImClone shortly before the Food and Drug Administration rejected the company's application for approval for a drug for colon cancer, sending the company's stock plummeting.</p> <p>Federal prosecutors in Manhattan and investigators at the Securities and Exchange Commission have been looking into whether Stewart had advance word of the news. Stewart is friends with ImClone founder Samuel Waksal, who is expected to be sentenced for criminal fraud on Tuesday.</p>