A little light reading for your Wednesday. . .
Liz at The Pump Handle looks at how the problems at Topps Meat managed to get past USDA inspectors, and as per usual it all comes down to money.
While we're on the subject of meat, Bonnie at Ethicurean examines how the new grass-fed label could be organic all over again.
At her new(ish) LA Times blog Emerald City, Siel wonders about the preponderance of doom-and-gloom documentaries.
Sierra Club president Carl Pope looks at the facts behind the so-called nuclear revival, and wonders, "who is fooling whom?"
Moms Speak Up has a great post about building a community around buying locally raised, grass-fed meat. Hard work, sure, but worth it in the end.
Talk about bad bottled water: ingredients listed on bottles of water handed out at the local water treatment facility include "lint, rancid grease, stomach acid and trace amounts of Pepto Bismol." It gets worse -- read the rest at DeerPhD