Archive for the 'Biotechnology' Category
China: Food Crops Grown in Soil Polluted with Heavy Metals
July 3rd, 2007Devastation. Via: Wall Street Journal / Moneyweb: For nearly two decades, Lai Mandai regularly ate and sold beans, cabbage and watermelons grown on a plot of land a short walk from a lead smelting plant in her village. Like dozens of other villagers who ate locally grown food, Ms. Lai, 39 years old, developed health […]
Vertical Farming in the Big Apple
June 20th, 2007I know. Urban hipsters want iPods, free love and electric SUVs. Absolutely any technology or policy that offers a glimmer of hope of keeping things going will be embraced with religious ferocity, regardless of the level of absurdity. As more and more people give up on the political process, they will seek comfort in the […]
Oil Industry Scales Back Refinery Plans
June 18th, 2007Everyone knows that the biofuel scam only results in higher food prices, and now, the oil cartel is saying, “With all the biofuel, we don’t need to invest if more refining capacity.” The food and energy scarcity issues are being engineered into a kill off mechanism that also generates massive profits. Anyone who can’t see […]
Dutch Try to Grow Enviro-Friendly Meat in Lab
June 2nd, 2007Coming to a domed city near you. Via: Reuters: Dutch researchers are trying to grow pork meat in a laboratory with the goal of feeding millions without the need to raise and slaughter animals. “We’re trying to make meat without having to kill animals,” Bernard Roelen, a veterinary science professor at Utrecht University, said in […]
U.S. Government Fights to Keep Meatpackers from Testing All Slaughtered Cattle for Mad Cow
May 31st, 2007Via: International Herald Tribune: The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease. The Agriculture Department tests fewer than 1 percent of slaughtered cows for the disease, which can be fatal to humans who eat tainted beef. A beef producer in the western state […]
Aussies Eating More FrankenpHood Soon
May 24th, 2007Via: The Age: VICTORIA is set to lift its ban on planting genetically modified food crops as early as February next year, paving the way for a rush of new food varieties on supermarket shelves. Under pressure from the Federal Government and farm groups, the Bracks Government is preparing to scrap the moratorium that stops […]
Why the U.S. Doesn’t Stop Importing Tainted Food from China
May 21st, 2007Always low prices. Always. At least a crock of shit would be useful. You can compost it and put it on your garden. “Typical Americans” are nourished on increasing amounts of petroleum, empty calories and toxic slag from slave labor camps in China. I wouldn’t allow what “typical Americans” are eating everyday into my compost […]
How Safe Is The Food Supply?
May 17th, 2007This article should be called, “How Well Prepared Are You for Collapse?” Via: Business Week: That powder keg hasn’t exploded–yet. But every month there are a surprising number of near misses. Europe just had a scare from harmful bacteria in vitamin A from China that nearly got into infant formula. And in the past few […]
FDA ORDERS DETENTION OF ALL VEGETABLE PROTIEN PRODUCTS FROM CHINA
May 3rd, 2007The “Typical American Diet” amounts to a perpetual, slow moving genocide. But that’s on the best of days. What you have here is a cluster f*&% of unimaginable proportions. Via: U.S. Food and Drug Administration: IA #99-29, 4/27/07, IMPORT ALERT #99-29, “DETENTION WITHOUT PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF ALL VEGETABLE PROTEIN PRODUCTS FROM CHINA FOR ANIMAL OR […]
Chickens Now Raised on Tainted Pet Food, FDA Says Don’t Worry
May 2nd, 2007UPDATE: And Pork Too What to do with all that tainted pet food that was killing animals around the U.S.? Make chicken feed out of it, of course! Yummy! Via: CNN: More farms across the United States will likely be affected by animal feed tainted with recalled pet food, federal health officials said Tuesday, after […]
