If you're interested in the melamine-poisoning scandal in pet food, there's a new development. You should go here to read about it.

If you're not interested in this, you really should be, because the new development is that melamine is absolutely, definitely in the human food supply. Here's that link again.

I'm currently taking bets from anyone that wants to wager that that particular hog farm in California is the only one affected. The odds, you should know, are 1,000,000,000 to 1.

This is what happens when corporations are allowed to pursue profit without proper oversight. As a liberal, I want regulated markets. I have no interest in communism or socialism or any other bugaboo, but I similarly have no interest in placing the welfare of my family in the hands of people for whom there is no greater good than the increase of their own bank accounts.

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