Your mother's intense concern about you getting salmonella as a youth has just been put into perspective: a new study indicates that hands and cutting boards in hospitals and homes that have been in contact with poultry "remain a source of transmission for multi-drug resistant bacteria."

A Colorado woman found what looks to be a partially-developed chicken fetus—complete feet and a beak—in a can of Campbell's chicken noodle soup. That's fowl.

Thanks to the furlough, all routine inspections of domestic food production (except for meat and poultry products) have stopped — and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is operating with a skeleton staff, was ill-equipped to deal with a recent salmonella outbreak that made hundreds of people sick in…

Now that politicians have solved all of the problems, it's lovely to see them getting down to the really important stuff — petty, childish gestures in support of a dying ideology. Come, little ducklings. Let's meet Republican Colorado Congressman-cum-professional-racist Lori Saine.

Heads up, Luiz, you've got some serious competition for world's cutest kid who loves animals a lot and is also ridiculously adorable.

If goats screaming over pop songs is The Godfather and seals yelling like humans is The Godfather 2, then this is Goodfellas: derivative, tongue-in-cheek, certainly a RIFF on the original theme, but with a charm all its own. [Tastefully Offensive]

Okay, I know it's like the most obvious uptight-feminist cliche ever, but god, I hate Hooters. I fucking hate Hooters so much. Mainly because I like to eat things that actually taste good, and also because I dislike being reminded that a lot of people's ideal woman is a pliant sex mannequin who delivers fried foods.…

Suffer from bladder infections that never seem to go away? Well, here's some disgusting news for you: Medical researchers have linked these perpetual and painful infections back to an antibiotic-resistant superbug found in grocery store meat, particularly chicken, that is being transferred to people in the form of…

All this time, you thought the painful curse of a urinary tract infection was simply your body punishing you for having too much of that slutty sex the Republicans keep talking about. Well, guess what? It might actually be the chicken you're eating that's really to blame. The CDC has found that most of the UTIs in the…

Josh Siegel brings you animal art every Monday. Add your own requests in the comments, and maybe Josh will draw an animal for you.

Can you spot the clever chick? It apparently escaped from its confines, and its owner feared the cat had eaten it—until he saw that the chick had, in fact, managed to make itself one with the cat. For his part, the gentle kitty seems quite content to let this strange little beast hang out on its leg. Perhaps this is…

"The enormity of their flat brain, the enormity of their stupidity is just overwhelming."

Bad news about America's favorite breakfast sandwich: The eggs in your Egg McMuffin could be a threat to your health. After some urging from the government, McDonalds has cut ties with Sparboe Farms, one of its major egg suppliers, because the conditions in the farm were so horrific they could no longer guarantee…

The November Anthropologie catalog has gone to the dogs. And pigs. And bunnies!

The "You look smashing. But your chicken breasts could use a lift" ad has been taken down at Kraft headquarters. A spokeswoman said no one had directly complained, but noted that "a few employees may have expressed concerns online." [AdAge]

There's an ad for Shake-N-Bake, a product owned by Kraft Foods, in the lobby of Kraft's Chicago-area headquarters. The ad is on a mirror, and the copy reads: "You look smashing. But your chicken breasts could use a lift." Hilarious?

Adorable inter-species adoption strikes again: Jane Etheridge, an Englishwoman from Middleton, says that the lone surviving chick from her hen's recent batch of 14 babes (a fox and untimely death claimed the other 13) was recently adopted by her cat, Snowy. Etheridge says that Snowy cleans and cares for the chick, now…