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In California, Going All Out to Bid Adieu to Foie Gras

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/u...o-foie-gras.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha23

LOS ANGELES — A line up of people streamed into an unmarked, dimly lighted storefront on Fairfax Avenue as night fell Friday, on a mash-up Los Angeles block catering to religious Jews and hungry hipsters. Before long, a smattering of protesters arrived.

Behind the glass doors, an act of culinary defiance was taking place.

In eight months, the sale of foie gras will be banned in California. But for seven hours on Friday night, at a restaurant appropriately known as Animal, three chefs presented an eight-course meal that was nothing short of a glorification of this soon-to-be outlawed delicacy. There was smoked foie gras, roasted foie gras, steamed foie gras and liquefied foie gras, injected into agnolotti. It was served with veal tongue, yogurt, prosciutto, mustard ice cream and truffles. There was even a foie gras dessert: a brownie sundae with foie gras Chantilly.

With all its gluttonous excess, and with the backdrop of the animal rights protesters, the sold-out dinner became the fattiest of food as political protest, offering a clash of competing passions in a battle that has reverberated across the nation but finally settled here, the first state in the nation to criminalize the sale of foie gras, the fattened liver of a goose or a duck.
 
More Americans than Chinese can’t put food on the table

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/more-americans-chinese-t-put-food-table-132752601.html

The number of Americans who lack access to basic necessities like food and health care is now higher than it was at the peak of the Great Recession, a survey released Thursday found. And in a finding that could worsen fears of U.S. decline, the share of Americans struggling to put food on the table is now three times as large as the share of the Chinese population in the same position.'' -- There are apples-to-oranges issues, but this is still unsettling.

Occupy Wall Street movement will have more join its protest.
 
California's biggest education problem?

California schools scrambling to add lessons on LGBT Americans

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gay-schools-20111016,0,6753592.story

Many are flummoxed about how to carry out a new law requiring California public schools to teach all students, from kindergartners to 12th-graders, about lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.
 
California inspires Congress on collecting lost tobacco taxes

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nat...-model-for-collecting-lost-tobacco-taxes.html

California, ever the trendsetter, has inspired proposed congressional legislation aimed at cracking down on tobacco smuggling and increasing cigarette tax revenues.

The Smuggled Tobacco Prevention, or STOP, Act would require that tobacco products carry a high-tech stamp, similar to one used in the Golden State, that allows government investigators to track cigarette packages and determine whether taxes were paid and whether tobacco is being diverted to illegal markets.

The measure is modeled after a California program that began in 2005 and has reduced cigarette tax evasion by $133 million annually, according to the State Board of Equalization.
 
Couch Potato said:
Nothing quite like keeping your priorities straight. :rof:
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I was more impressed by the banning of the fattened liver of a goose or a duck. It was on the basis of cruelty to animals, similar I guess to teaching the LGBT agenda but the opposite motivation. woohoo
 
California job-creation?

California pregnancy disability coverage extended

http://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20111016/NEWS03/310169980?tags=|62|307|74#

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A new California law will require employers to extend health insurance coverage for up to 16 weeks to employees classified as disabled due to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions.

The measure, S.B. 299, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law last week with a Jan. 1, 2012, effective date, mandates that employers continue health care coverage for up to 16 weeks to disabled pregnant employees on the same basis as prior to the employee taking disability leave.

In certain ways, the California law mirrors the 1993 U.S. Family and Medical Leave Act, but there are several key differences. The federal law mandates that health care coverage be continued for up to 12 weeks, rather than the 16 weeks mandated in the California law.

In addition, the FMLA applies to employers with at least 50 employees. The California law applies to employers with as few as five employees.
 
Randolph Kinney said:
California job-creation?

California pregnancy disability coverage extended

http://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20111016/NEWS03/310169980?tags=|62|307|74#

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A new California law will require employers to extend health insurance coverage for up to 16 weeks to employees classified as disabled due to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions.

The measure, S.B. 299, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law last week with a Jan. 1, 2012, effective date, mandates that employers continue health care coverage for up to 16 weeks to disabled pregnant employees on the same basis as prior to the employee taking disability leave.

In certain ways, the California law mirrors the 1993 U.S. Family and Medical Leave Act, but there are several key differences. The federal law mandates that health care coverage be continued for up to 12 weeks, rather than the 16 weeks mandated in the California law.

In addition, the FMLA applies to employers with at least 50 employees. The California law applies to employers with as few as five employees.
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The easy solution is simply not provide health benefits in the first place so there is nothing to continue. :new_all_coholic:
 
Couch Potato said:
The easy solution is simply not provide health benefits in the first place so there is nothing to continue. :new_all_coholic:
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Yes, that would be the sane thing to do when job creation is negative as employers move out of state, shut down (discontinue) or not even form a business to begin.

Since this amounts to a liability only if you hire women of child bearing age, the untended consequence will be not to hire women of child bearing age.
 
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