A video of a British investigative report details the widespread practice of using meat glue, transglutaminase, to stick meat parts together so effectively they are sold as prime cuts. Beef, pork, chicken and lamb are routinely processed in this way, introducing dangerous bacteria into the meat you eat. The practice has been banned in the EU and several other countries but there's been very little coverage of this in the States.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/05/04/has-your-meat-been-glued-together--why-you-need-to-know-and-avoid-this-dangerous-process.aspx
Exposed - The Dirty Little Secret of the Meat Industry
http://www.naturalnews.com/032315_meat_industry_secrets.html
All of the talk about privacy rights and the excessive surveillance authorized by the Patriot Act by Obama in his 2008 campaign was, it turns out, simply empty posturing on the part of the President. Under Obama, the administration has attacked whistleblowers, repeatedly reauthorized the Patriot Act, and expanded the ability of the FBI to collect data on American Internet communications. We are moving with great speed and zealous bi-partisan support into a national-surveillance state, that is, a police state.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/05/20/surveillance/index.html
With two months left to collect signatures to force a referendum on Ohio's anti-labor laws, groups advocating for the rights of the working class have already garnered 93% of the required signatures. This is another sign that people have had enough of the extremist right-wing attack on workers and that the GOP may pay a spectacular price for overreaching in their push to crush protections for labor.
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/20/ohio-referendum-winning/
This is an interesting piece that focusses on the less salacious aspects of the DSK arrest in NYC by pointing out that it may be because of union job protection that the accuser was able to stand up and go public with rape charges against a powerful international figure. It makes a great point, that without the New York Hotel Trades Council union, the woman could have had her job taken away just for reporting the assault. Naturally, this would have been a strong dis-incentive to reporting the attack.
http://www.alternet.org/news/151022/accusing_dsk_of_sexual_assault_took_guts_--_but_union_protection_is_essential/?utm
President Obama's executive order to delay environmental regulations that might hinder economic growth, issued after the 2010 midterm elections, demonstrate that he is willfully putting politics ahead of good policy. For example, one delayed rule on industrial boiler efficiency would reportedly cost industry $1.4 billion a year though the gains for society, in terms of health benefits range from $22-$54 billion. Nonetheless, the President is eschewing good regulatory policy while pandering to the powerful polluters behind dirty coal and mountaintop coal removal industries at the expense of the environment and public health.
http://www.grist.org/politics/2011-05-20-la-times-barack-obama-environment-public-health-under-reelected
Flashback 2003: Romney Attacked Coal Jobs That "Kill People"
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/20/romney-coal-jobs/
