Jesse Hirsch
We Keep Giving Accidental Sex Changes to Fish
It's not just your birth control-tainted urine forcing fish to suddenly swap sexes. A recent study has found that a common steroid used to bulk up beef is giving aquatic life sex reversals.
Is It Manslaughter to Serve Someone 56 Shots of Liquor?
A bar owner in Clermont-Ferrand, France, is on trial for killing a man with 56 shots of booze. But was his encouragement to beat the bar's previous record of 55 shots enough to merit manslaughter charges?
'VICE' Takes on GMOs, Pesticides, and the Megacorporations Behind Your Food
Whatever side of the GMO debate you’re on, tonight’s episode of VICE on HBO should be an eye-opener. On the eve of its debut, we sat down with VICE editor Joe Langford to learn more about how it all came together.
Delivering Pizza Is One of the Most Dangerous Jobs in America
Delivering pizza is a semi-thankless profession—in which solitude is the biggest bonus—and one with a high risk of bodily harm. How can we possibly expect people to go out there and drive our food around?
German Shoppers Surprised with Free Needles Hidden in Their Meat
This week, a German woman is on trial for slipping needles into supermarket meat in an attempt to show consumers how dangerous the industrial food system is.