Foie gras quack down: Police departments in California say they aren’t likely to cite chefs for serving free foie gras to their customers when a state ban on the fatty livers of force-fed ducks and geese begins July 1. Animal rights advocates pushed through the ban, calling the practice of force feeding animal cruelty.
Force feeding an animal does seem harsh. Couldn’t they just fatten the ducks by handing them a video game controller, a bowl of cheese puffs and a 20-ounce Mountain Dew?
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Fair’s fair: Lawmakers in Rhode Island have made it legal to lie on the Internet, overturning a 1989 law that made online fibbing a misdemeanor punishable with fines up to $500 and a year in prison.
The Ocean State’s legislators said they had little choice but to allow people to lie, considering that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision had already given corporations that right.
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You’re welcome: To encourage Facebook members to use its email service, Facebook recently assigned email address to all users, then changed their profiles to show the new addresses as their primary email, all without notification of the switch.
Looking to save you some time, Facebook also has signed you up for FarmVille, “liked” a Barry Manilow video for you and shared an Instagram photo of your cat.
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