Archive for the 'Food' Category
Drought to Cut Off Federal Water to California Farms
February 21st, 2009Via: AP: Federal water managers said Friday that they plan to cut off water, at least temporarily, to thousands of California farms as a result of the deepening drought gripping the state. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation officials said parched reservoirs and patchy rainfall this year were forcing them to completely stop surface water deliveries for […]
Newly Poor Swell Lines at Food Banks Nationwide
February 20th, 2009Via: New York Times: Once a crutch for the most needy, food pantries have responded to the deepening recession by opening their doors to what Rosemary Gilmartin, who runs the Interfaith Food Pantry here, described as “the next layer of people” — a rapidly expanding roster of child-care workers, nurse’s aides, real estate agents and […]
Rural Zimbabweans Are Desperately Panning for Gold Powder to Ward Off Starvation
February 15th, 2009Why don’t people grow potatoes? Why don’t they grow beans? Wouldn’t that be easier than panning for gold all day to buy industrial food? In this video, I saw dirt, ruminant animals, water, and plenty of biomass that could be turned into compost. People had shovels… Yet, starvation is setting in. I don’t understand why […]
Ron Paul Introduces Bill to End Interstate Raw Milk Ban
February 7th, 2009Via: Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund: On January 28 Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) introduced HR 778, a bill “to authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products that are packaged for direct human consumption.” Under the bill, the federal government “may not take any action…that would prohibit, interfere with, regulate, or otherwise […]
CHINA DECLARES DROUGHT EMERGENCY
February 6th, 2009Via: BBC: China has declared an emergency in eight northern and central drought-hit regions, where nearly four million people are suffering water shortages. Nearly half of China’s winter crop – some 10m hectares (24m acres) of wheat and rape seed – are also under threat. President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao ordered all-out efforts […]
FDA Admits Cloned Meat, Milk May Have Already Entered Food Supply
February 1st, 2009Via: Natural News: The FDA has admitted that meat and milk from the offspring of cloned mammals such as cows, pigs, goats and sheep could very well have already entered the food supply in the United States. “It is theoretically possible,” agency spokesperson Siobhan DeLancey said. In January, the FDA declared that foods derived from […]
Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury
January 28th, 2009Another way of stating the headline would be: Many Foods Consumed by Poor People Cause Brain Damage. Via: Washington Post: Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and beverage products where HFCS is the first- or […]
CATERPILLAR MOVES TO CUT 20,000 JOBS
January 26th, 2009WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. DISCLOSURE: I’m long DBA. There are so many layoff stories that I decided to only mention the real shockers. There are just too many stories in the 1000 to 5000 magnitude to mention. Perhaps you guys know of some good sites […]
UK: Budget Food
January 19th, 2009In the “developed” world, poor people are victims of their own ignorance and bad habits as they are of the predatory nature of the confetti currency system. I’ve seen the way poor people eat in various parts of the “developed” world and that diet, in my opinion, represents a death sentence; a program of genocide […]
More Americans Getting Multiple Chronic Illnesses
January 6th, 2009Via: Reuters: More Americans are burdened by chronic illnesses such as diabetes and high blood pressure, often having more than three at a time, and this has helped fuel a big rise in out-of-pocket medical expenses, a study released on Tuesday showed. With prescription drugs playing a key role, average annual out-of-pocket medical costs — […]
