It's fun to read the newspaper

Particularly when you run across gems like this one:

On April 4, the Department of Agriculture sent out a news release (www.fsis.usda.gov) announcing a voluntary recall by Elkhorn Valley Packing of “approximately 406,000 pounds of frozen cattle heads with tonsils not completely removed.” It seems that leaving the tonsils in does not comply with regulations because they “are considered a specified risk material.”

The release made its way to Erik Marcus, the publisher of Vegan.com. “Tonsils or not,” he wrote, “I’m going to go out on a limb and say frozen cattle heads are decidedly not vegan.”

Marcus's quote has to be one of the best I've read this year.