SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Benu's Faux Shark-Fin Soup Fools Gastronomes Like a top-drawer Folger's Crystals switcheroo, Benu executive chef Corey Lee, the former chef de cuisine at The French Laundry, developed a fake shark-fin soup that's fooling even the most rabid fans of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Animals Rights Group Wants To Give Foie Gras-Hungry Anthony Bourdain Liver Exam Looking to draw attention to (cruel yet succulent) foie gras production and consumption, which will (technically) be banned in California come 2012, animal rights group Animal Legal Defense Fund stirred up a bit
SF News Deplorable Teen Busted for Fowl Concord Murders In the sleepy far east suburb of Concord, California a 17-year-old boy has been arrested for the serial murder of at least two dozen migratory waterfowl. In five separate incidents over the past
SF News Animal Cops Continue the Hunt for Hawk Shooter The red-tailed hawk found skewered with a nail from a nail gun has made a full recovery and was released back in to the wilds of Golden Gate Park yesterday afternoon. But the
SF News Skewered Golden Gate Park Hawk Rescued, Recovering Nicely The red-tailed hawk speared with a framing nail shot from a nail gun has been successfully rescued, reports Bay City News and the Wild Rescue team. The injured bird, which turned out to
SF News $5,000 Reward for Golden Gate Park Hawk Shooter WildRescue put up a $5,000 reward for information leading up to an arrest and conviction for the person(s) responsible for shooting a red-tail hawk with a nail gun. "Animal rescuers are
SF News Wayward Sea Lion Wanders Across Highway 101 In the latest bit of plucky pinniped news: a sea lion flopped its way across Highway 101 early Saturday morning. After finding herself far from home and lying in a ditch on the
SF News Human-Animal Sex No Longer Legal in Florida Tonight at the stroke of midnight, Florida State Senator Nan Rich's anti-bestiality bill goes in to effect in that dangling, backwards state. It took Senator Rich three attempts to get the bill passed
SF News Local Animal Rescue Crew Needs Your Help to Buy This Awesome Animal Ambulance Wild Rescue, the local animal rescue crew responsible for freeing tortured seagulls, saving blowdart-stabbed ducks and pulling sea lions from the mud all across the Bay Area needs some help to expand their
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Animal Rights Group Wants Cigarette-Like Warning Labels On Foie Gras Following on the heels of yesterday's report that, as soon as the ban goes into effect, foie gras will turn into an underground treat for gastronomes—all of this fattened liver talk has
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Foie Gras To Go Underground In CA? When the state's foie gras ban goes into effect in July of 2012, California restaurants will have to pull the luxurious (yet allegedly cruel) item from their menus. Although producers claim it doesn't
SF News Some Terrible Person is Shooting Ducks With a Blow Gun in Santa Clara In the latest aggressive attack on Bay Area waterfowl, someone in Santa Clara is attacking innocent ducks with a blowgun. Property managers at an apartment complex where the ducks like to hang out
SF News Dead Goat, Other Dead Animals Found On Capp Street [Warning: Graphic Image] A deceased and bloody goat's corpse was found on Capp Street today. Mission Mission picked up on the story today. SFist talked to San Francisco Animal Care and Control who revealed that, in
SF News Pet Python Lost in Oakland Sweet Jesus, somebody lost their pet python in Oakland, and put up this frightening "lost snake" sign to warn neighbors. The ball python, described as "4 feet long, black & brown, will be
SF News Falcon Shooter Sought by Game Wardens State game wardens are offering $1,000 for any information leading to the arrest of the person(s) who shot and injured two peregrine falcons in Oakland. Both protected under the California endangered
SF News San Francisco to Ban Goldfish? R&B duo Matier & Ross have word that the San Francisco Animal Control Commission suggests a citywide ban on goldfish sales. While buying pets from puppy and kittens mills are a
SF News Mad Cell Phone User Injures 5 In Castro Valley A man in a "dispute over a cellphone and a ring" got super angry in Castro Valley last night and ran his car into five people and a living room, and pinning a
SF News Spooked Horse Runs Amok Through City Streets Oh this is rich. It seems a scared horse attached to a carriage, which is mean and unnecessary in this post-industrialized era of ours, went on a rampage through North Beach and The
SF News Up for Adoption: Cat Found Stuffed in Suitcase, Abandoned at SFO Named after the duffel bag in which he was abandoned, "Duffy" was discovered by residents in Burlingame near the Embassy Suites at SFO on April 5. Although he was left there for more
