The guy’s an endless source of outrage. And blog fodder:

Republican Ted Stevens is looking out for Alaska’s salmon industry — and for babies everywhere.

For the third year in a row, Alaska’s senior senator has set aside money in the fiscal 2007 Agriculture spending bill (
HR 5384) for development of baby food made from salmon. The $450,000 earmark in the Appropriations Committee’s report gives direction regarding part of a $1 million line item for “alternative salmon product research.”

“Given its overwhelming nutritional value for children, Sen. Stevens believes finding ways to incorporate omega-3 into baby food and formula is a project worthy of attention and the [Agriculture Department] agrees,” said Lindsay Hayes, the senator’s spokeswoman.

Scott Smiley has been perfecting salmon baby food for a few years. He works for the Fisheries Industrial Technology Center, a branch of the Alaska university system in charge of improving fishing practices and fish products that has teamed up with the nonprofit Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation on the baby food project.

Researchers in Smiley’s division are using grant money from the state research and education branch of the Agriculture Department to develop two baby food styles: purÃ?©e and chunky.

Story from Congressional Quarterly (no link — subscription).

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