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After a nearly three year battle, a man who punched an American Airlines flight attendent on a plane traveling from Zurich to New York has been unable to clear his name. Pierre Delis of Maryland was convicted of assault back in 2006 after an argument with a flight attendant got physical; the incident was sparked when the attendant pushing the dinner cart informed him there was no chicken left, only roast beef. She says Delis shouted obscenities at her and then punched her in the chest, leaving a bruise. He says he hit her inadvertently while trying to swat her hand out of his face. At any rate, Delis was arrested upon landing and ultimately sentenced to time served—the few hours he'd spent in jail—and had to pay $10 in court costs. But he's been trying to overturn the conviction ever since, taking it all the way to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan, which yesterday upheld the conviction. So, now you know: Pierre Delis of Maryland is GUILTY of hitting a woman in chest because he couldn't get his precious airplane chicken.

Today the Times takes a long, hard look at Jay Dines, an upstate farmer who was banished from the city’s Greenmarkets only to get thrown out of the Brooklyn Flea as well. Inspectors from the Greenmarket – who visit vendors’ farms to verify they’re personally growing or making everything they sell at the markets – have accused Dines of making his all-beef hot dogs and bacon from animals obtained elsewhere. Dines says he’s just “trying to keep from losing the farm,” but the reporter totally catches him in a lie about his hot dogs.

When salmonella first ruined the tomatoes, some carnivores laughed at the distraught vegetable lovers; now an E. coli outbreak has prompted a nationwide beef recall, and the only ones left to laugh are the breatharians. 530,000 pounds of beef have been pulled from supermarkets nationwide; over 40 people may have been sickened in Michigan and Ohio by contaminated beef sold by the Kroger chain. Symptoms to watch out for at tomorrow’s barbecues include stomach cramps and diarrhea.

Gourmet Boutique, a food company based in Jamaica, Queens, has voluntarily recalled 286,320 pounds of various beef, pork, turkey and chicken products, after discovering they may have been contaminated with Listeria, a bacteria that can cause listerosis, a disease the CDC says primarily affects "persons of advanced age, pregnant women, newborns, and adults with weakened immune systems."

The California based Westland/Hallmark Meat Company is recalling all its raw and frozen beef products distributed since Feb. 1, 2006 – a total of 143 million pounds of ground beef. The largest beef recall in history was announced after an undercover Humane Society video showed workers kicking sick cows, jabbing them in the eyes and using forklifts to force them to walk to slaughter. (See the video here.)

After the Humane Society revealed a tape of mistreatment of cows at the nation's "No. 2 supplier of ground beef to the National School Lunch Program," burgers and other beef products were temporarily yanked off NYC schools' menus. The U.S. Department of Agriculture had put an "administrative hold" on all products from Hallmark Meat Packing Packing in Chino, CA and asked all schools to stop using products from Westland/Hallmark Meat.