Archive for the 'Food' Category
U.S. Military Airdrops Thousands of Meals Into Gaza in Emergency Humanitarian Aid Operation
March 3rd, 2024#Gaza pic.twitter.com/vq9GB2vNH3 — hani abbas (@hanimabbas) March 3, 2024 Via: CBS: U.S. military C-130 cargo planes on Saturday dropped food in pallets over Gaza, three U.S. officials said, two days after more than 100 Palestinians who had surged to pull goods off an aid convoy were killed during a chaotic encounter with Israeli troops. U.S. […]
Pennsylvania: State Officials Raid Amish Farmer, Seize $100K of Food
March 1st, 2024Via: The Defender:
Largest Wildfire in Texas History, “Likely Killed Tens of Thousands of Livestock”
February 29th, 2024Via: Reuters: Wildfires raging in the Texas Panhandle have destroyed grain in storage bins and likely killed tens of thousands of livestock, state Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said in an interview on Thursday. A blaze, dubbed the Smokehouse Creek fire, is the largest in Texas history and burning grazing lands covered with years of grass […]
Israeli Forces Massacre Civilians Waiting for Food Aid
February 29th, 2024Via: Al Jazeera: More than 100 Palestinians have been killed and some 700 others wounded after Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City, health officials say, as the besieged enclave faces an unprecedented hunger crisis. The Gaza Ministry of Health said on Thursday said at least 104 people […]
Ready for Some Bill Gates Butter?
February 28th, 2024Via: Bill Gates:
Gaza: “Brink of Famine”
February 25th, 2024Via: AFP: The World Food Programme this week said its teams reported “unprecedented levels of desperation” while the United Nations warned that 2.2 million people were on the brink of famine. … One in six children aged under two in Gaza was acutely malnourished, it estimated on February 19. Residents have taken to eating scavenged […]
Tennessee Company Accused of Using Child Labor to Clean Slaughterhouses
February 21st, 2024What happens to the ones who aren’t cleaning the slaughterhouses? Biden Administration Facilitates Sex Trafficking and Rape of Immigrant Children, Florida Grand Jury Reports ‘Modern-Day Slave Traders’: Hawley Demands Probe Into 85,000 ‘Lost’ Migrant Children HHS Whistleblower Says Government Complicit in Trafficking; Child Admits Being ‘Pimped’ by Sponsor Biden Secretly Flying Underage Migrants Into NY […]
80% of Americans Test Positive for Chemical Found in Conventionally Grown Oats That May Cause Infertility
February 16th, 2024Commentary on Cornell Researchers Developing On-Demand Male Contraceptive: I never got around to writing it, but long ago, in the spirit of Rainbox Six, I envisioned a story that involved a sort of binary bioweapon. If a man drinks a soda containing compound A by itself, he doesn’t become infertile. If he eats a candy […]
Farm Protests: EU Eases Demands in 2040 Climate Proposal
February 9th, 2024Via: Politico: Under intense pressure from farmers, the European Commission has dropped key passages in a proposal for a new 2040 goal for cutting greenhouse gas pollution. “All sectors” would need to contribute to the effort, the EU executive’s plan says. But a mention of a possible 30 percent cut to agricultural pollution between 2015 […]
U.S. Prisoners Part of Hidden Workforce Linked to Hundreds of Popular Food Brands
February 6th, 2024Via: AP: A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison. Unmarked trucks packed with prison-raised cattle roll out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where men are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work, for pennies […]
