Another day, another two tons of beef-meat riddled with brain-eating prions! The USDA has ordered a recall of over 4,000 pounds of beef because of a "remote" risk of mad cow disease contamination. Some of the beef—which is in the form of bone-in ribeye roasts—was being sold at Whole Foods. Just another reminder that… » 6/13/14 6:50pm 6/13/14 6:50pm

Beef steaks? Sure! Beef tongue? Pushing it. Improperly labeled, un-inspected beef penis not intended for human consumption? NO THANKS. And yet, according to a lawsuit, that's exactly what a Texas supermarket repackaged and sold as just another variety of on-the-up-and-up people food. » 6/13/14 3:30pm 6/13/14 3:30pm

Is it just me, or is the phrase "controversial slaughterhouse" the most terrifying combination of words in the English language? Can we get that on the books somehow? It's impressive, really. » 9/20/13 7:50pm 9/20/13 7:50pm

For the better part of the past 48 hours, 21-year-old New York rapper Azealia Banks (best known for her 2011 viral hit "212") has been holding the attention of her Twitter followers hostage. First it was a Twitter beef with fellow 21-year-old hip-hop up-and-comer Angel Haze, which resulted in a swapping of dis tracks.… » 1/05/13 2:45pm 1/05/13 2:45pm

First they came for our peanut butter... » 9/26/12 6:30pm 9/26/12 6:30pm

The USDA announced today that it found a case of mad cow disease in a poor cow in California. Yikes. It is the first case of the dreaded disease to be seen here in six years, and while it sounds scary as shit, authorities say there's no reason to be alarmed because the U.S. food supply is not in danger. So keep… » 4/24/12 10:00pm 4/24/12 10:00pm

Remember pink slime? That disgusting neon tube of "beef" that it turns out was in all of our Big Macs and cafeteria burgers and other ground beef? Well, thank goodness, it's fast becoming a thing of the past. After McDonald's and other fast food places banned it from their burgers and then the USDA decided schools… » 3/26/12 9:45pm 3/26/12 9:45pm

If this giant pink meat snake does not look appetizing to you, you're not alone. The "meat product," which called pink slime and is made from scrap beef that's ground up and bleached with ammonium hydroxide, has long been a common ingredient in the ground beef used for school lunches. But thank goodness that is about… » 3/16/12 10:00am 3/16/12 10:00am

Fans of Mickey D's rejoice, they've suspended their practice of using pink slime in your burgers. Oh, sorry, you didn't know that your "100% pure beef patty" was loaded with the pink gooey mess you see above? Yeah, well, it was. The pink slime is technically meat, because it begins life as a pile of beef scraps, or… » 2/01/12 9:00pm 2/01/12 9:00pm

The artwork for Lil Kim's new mixtape, Black Friday, is an absolute masterpiece of Photoshop. In fact, the proportions are so bizarre — look at the waist as compared to the neck! — that we're not even sure the designer started with a photograph. Was Kim's head dropped on to someone else's body? Was the whole thing… » 2/17/11 2:42pm 2/17/11 2:42pm

[Paris, March 4. Image via Getty] » 3/05/10 11:10am 3/05/10 11:10am

• Males born to women who ate a lot of beef during pregnancy may suffer from reduced sperm counts. [CNN]
• Researchers recommend more MRI scans to be used for women at high risk for breast cancer. Problem is, the US healthcare system isn't set up to handle the estimated extra million women who fall into the "high risk"…
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