Elderly Farmer Ordered to Pay Monsanto $84,000 for Planting Unlabeled Monsanto Soybeans

May 14, 2013 // 5:23 pm

Pro tip: If you’re an elderly small-time soybean farmer, make sure you’re really, really careful not to piss off huge GMO-based companies like Monsanto. That’s a lesson that 76-year-old Indiana farmer Vernon Bowman probably wishes he’d learned before a lawsuit from Monsanto went all the way to the…

San Francisco Sues Monster Energy Drink for Marketing to Children

May 8, 2013 // 10:58 am

I’ve had a soft spot for Monster Energy Drinks ever since nine cans of the stuff helped me write one hundred and four pages in a single finals week during my sophomore year of college. Unfortunately, that caffeine-fueled week of intense productivity might have major health consequences down the…

Eating Nutella is as Healthy as Eating Cake Batter

February 20, 2013 // 8:00 am

We already knew that all of those Nutella commercials telling mothers that the hazelnut spread is part of a healthy breakfast were selling chocolate-covered lies, but we didn’t quite realize that putting Nutella on your toast is basically just soaking it in cake batter. Though Nutella does contain significant amounts of…

AmeriCone Cream and Hairy Garcia are What Happens When a XXX-Company Releases a Line of Ben & Jerry’s Themed Pornos

September 6, 2012 // 3:19 pm

Well here’s an answer to a question no one was asking, but it’s probably safe to say the makers of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream probably aren’t “screamers.”

Yesterday, Vermont’s Finest filed a lawsuit against Rodax Distributors and Caballero Video for producing a series of porn flicks entitled “Ben & Cherry’s,”…

Domino’s Pizza Faces Lawsuit For Allegedly Keeping Delivery Charges of 1,600 Drivers

November 18, 2011 // 12:17 pm

It looks like Domino’s has a little more on their plate than just pizza in Minnesota. Allegedly, Domino’s Pizza is facing a federal class-certified lawsuit for unlawfully keeping the delivery charges paid by their customers. The charges, according to the lawsuit, should have rightfully been given to all 1,600…

That’s Not Where Asparagus Goes: Morton’s Faces Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

November 9, 2011 // 7:20 am

Former Sous Chef of a Boca Raton Morton’s Steakhouse, Reggie Williams, is slapping the franchise with a sexual harassment lawsuit alleging the restaurant fostered an environment of sexual harassment and food impurity. Williams claims that one fellow employee, Edmund Bleus, went so far as to put asparagus down…

Needles Found in Burger King Burger

October 14, 2011 // 11:26 pm

The last thing you would want to find in your burger is a couple of needles. Such was the case of a Hawaii-based soldier sitting down to his meal. Army Staff Sgt. Clark Bartholomew purchased a Triple Stacker from a Burger King in Schofield Barracks…

Hooters vs. Twin Peaks — Boobie-Food War Escalates

October 4, 2011 // 2:10 pm

If restaurants like Hooters have taught us anything, it’s that great things come in pairs; wings and a ball game, great service and a smile, and of course, lawsuits and alleged corporate espionage.

The lawsuit hit Georgia Federal Court this week where a…